:00:00. > :00:00.Out of the single market and striking its own unique trade deal -
:00:07. > :00:12.Michael Gove sets out a vision for the UK out of the EU.
:00:13. > :00:15.He says we could still do business with Europe but not have to abide
:00:16. > :00:20.There is a free trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey,
:00:21. > :00:23.that all European nations have access to, regardless
:00:24. > :00:27.of whether they are in or out of the euro or the EU.
:00:28. > :00:30.But those fighting for the UK to remain in the EU have
:00:31. > :00:34.attacked Mr Gove's claims as unfounded and untenable.
:00:35. > :00:38.The father jailed for assaulting his baby daughter.
:00:39. > :00:41.His conviction was quashed, now six years later he's
:00:42. > :00:46.As the death toll in Ecuador's earthquake nears 500,
:00:47. > :00:52.we report from the epicentre of the earthquake.
:00:53. > :00:55.With just over two weeks to election day, we're in the chamber
:00:56. > :00:58.of the Scottish Parliament - fast becoming one of
:00:59. > :01:01.the most powerful devolved bodies in the world -
:01:02. > :01:06.and we'll have the latest on the campaign.
:01:07. > :01:14.enjoying life as the Queen prepares to celebrate an important birthday.
:01:15. > :01:17.Coming up in Sportsday at 10.30pm on BBC News:
:01:18. > :01:20.Action from St James' Park as Newcastle United
:01:21. > :01:43.look to pull clear of the Premier League relegation zone.
:01:44. > :01:47.The campaign to take the UK out of the EU has gone the furthest yet
:01:48. > :01:51.in outlining what so-called Brexit would look like.
:01:52. > :01:53.Michael Gove said the Vote Leave group would take the UK out
:01:54. > :01:56.of the single market - which allows the free
:01:57. > :01:59.movement of goods, services and people across borders
:02:00. > :02:04.Instead the UK would strike its own unique deal,
:02:05. > :02:08.be part of a free trade zone, doing business with the EU but not
:02:09. > :02:13.Those arguing to remain in the EU claim Mr Gove is labouring under
:02:14. > :02:17.a serious misunderstanding about the way the European Union works.
:02:18. > :02:26.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has more.
:02:27. > :02:31.Filling in the blanks, for weeks campaigners who want to leave the EU
:02:32. > :02:39.have been attacked for dodging how life would look outside. I see.
:02:40. > :02:45.Mocked this morning by Remainors as they arrived to hear more at last
:02:46. > :02:49.about the plan. The man with the slightly more detailed plan and
:02:50. > :02:52.ridiculed for his colleagues' warnings, Cabinet Minister, Michael
:02:53. > :02:58.Gove. The idea if Britain voted to leave the European Union, we would
:02:59. > :03:02.instantly become some sort of hermit kingdom, a North Atlantic North
:03:03. > :03:12.Korea, only without that country's fund of international goodwill. It
:03:13. > :03:15.is a fantasy, a phantom, a great, preposterous Peter Mandelson conceit
:03:16. > :03:20.that imagines the people of this country arm your children, capable
:03:21. > :03:24.of being frightened into obedience by conjuring up new bogeymen every
:03:25. > :03:28.night. You could banish them by being as clear as you can be about
:03:29. > :03:33.what the economy would look like if we leave. In the simplest of terms,
:03:34. > :03:36.can you describe what our trading relationships would look like? We
:03:37. > :03:39.would be part of a free trade zone that extends from Iceland to the
:03:40. > :03:43.Russian border, that includes all the nations of the European land
:03:44. > :03:47.mass, by being part of that free trade zone we would have full access
:03:48. > :03:53.to the European market, but we would be freed from EU regulation. They
:03:54. > :03:58.love those ambitions here, outside the single market, but trading
:03:59. > :04:02.freely without EU migration. The message coming out of Vote
:04:03. > :04:07.Leave's anonymous campaign head quarters is a goal of contrasting
:04:08. > :04:12.hope versus fear. They are being a bit more explicit about how the
:04:13. > :04:16.economy might look if we leave the EU, but there is precious little
:04:17. > :04:20.detail over how it would actually work, and over there they say it
:04:21. > :04:25.won't wash. The In campaign scoffed at the idea, we trade in a similar
:04:26. > :04:30.fashion to a country like Albania. And are firm, we would be lonelier
:04:31. > :04:34.and poorer outside the EU. The Leave campaign have said this means being
:04:35. > :04:38.outside the single market. That means a risk of tariffs, it means
:04:39. > :04:44.that as services would not be included, and that is a real threat
:04:45. > :04:48.to jobs, to investment and to trade. Whatever Michael said, he's right.
:04:49. > :04:53.They agree, and a powerful minority of Ministers at Cabinet believe the
:04:54. > :04:58.obstacles of exit can be hurdled over. There is only a lot of
:04:59. > :05:01.scaremongering going on. If it is desirable, is it feasible for us to
:05:02. > :05:07.be outside but get the benefits of in? It is complicated at best. But
:05:08. > :05:11.however we trade, in what was described as the definitive speech,
:05:12. > :05:16.Mr Gove made the boldest claim yet. Voting to leave would be a
:05:17. > :05:20.galvanising, empowering moment of patriotic renewal. But for Europe,
:05:21. > :05:23.Britain voting to leave would be the beginning of something potentially
:05:24. > :05:27.even more exciting. The democratic liberation of a whole continent.
:05:28. > :05:32.Outers crossing their fingers, if you vote to leave the whole EU might
:05:33. > :05:36.crumble. Their rivals hope luck and logic will end up on their side.
:05:37. > :05:39.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:05:40. > :05:41.So how does the single market work and what difference would it make
:05:42. > :05:44.if the UK wasn't in it, as Michael Gove suggests?
:05:45. > :05:48.And what about the free trade zones that he wants the UK to be part of?
:05:49. > :05:50.Mr Gove's statement today has raised lot of questions.
:05:51. > :05:57.Here's our business editor, Simon Jack.
:05:58. > :06:03.In 1992, at Maastricht, the modern European Union was born and it's
:06:04. > :06:08.grown into the single market we know today.
:06:09. > :06:12.A Union free of internal border, UK citizens can live, work, trade
:06:13. > :06:18.anywhere if the UK accepts free movement the other way and concedes
:06:19. > :06:23.certain powers to Brussels. But Vote Leave say that arrangement means no
:06:24. > :06:26.control of your borders and submitting to Europe's stifling
:06:27. > :06:31.bureaucracy and Michael Gove wants out, but to where and to what?
:06:32. > :06:35.Michael Gove today said the UK would join an existing free trade zone,
:06:36. > :06:39.which stretches from Iceland to Turkey, but what does he mean? Well,
:06:40. > :06:43.the EU has dozens of free trade deals with neighbours both large and
:06:44. > :06:47.small. It includes countries to the East, some of which are candidates
:06:48. > :06:51.to join the European Union, but perhaps the most relevant to Michael
:06:52. > :06:57.Gove's speech today is something called the European Free Trade
:06:58. > :07:01.Association, it has four members - Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and
:07:02. > :07:06.Liechtenstein. Of these, three are in the European Economic Area, an EU
:07:07. > :07:10.light where almost EU rules apply. You have access to the single market
:07:11. > :07:15.but you pay to be a member and accept the free movement of people.
:07:16. > :07:20.That leaves Switzerland. That also pays into the budget. It currently
:07:21. > :07:23.accepts the free movement of people and, crucially, has restrictions on
:07:24. > :07:28.selling financial services into the rest of the European Union.
:07:29. > :07:32.The City of London is concerned that a Swiss-style deal would require
:07:33. > :07:37.stationing thousands of employees inside the EU and mean London would
:07:38. > :07:41.lose its advantage as a one-stop-shop for European finance.
:07:42. > :07:46.The UK financial services industry is enormous in terms of its
:07:47. > :07:50.proportion of GDP compared to European competitors. There is
:07:51. > :07:55.plenty of opportunities for other EU institutions to come in on Brexit
:07:56. > :07:59.and pick off parts of that business, lucrative business, which is related
:08:00. > :08:03.to the EU and which the UK institutions would find more
:08:04. > :08:07.difficult to execute. The UK is the biggest market for EU exports and
:08:08. > :08:11.Vote Leave said it would be self-defeating for the EU to impose
:08:12. > :08:15.trade barriers. Michael Gove thinks a sweetheart deal is achievable for
:08:16. > :08:21.the world's fifth largest economy. Others may think the UK is trying to
:08:22. > :08:23.have its cake and eat it. Simon Jack, BBC News.
:08:24. > :08:24.Let's speak to our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg,
:08:25. > :08:35.Has this statement by Michael Gove, has it changed the terms of the
:08:36. > :08:39.debate? It's a big day. Until now the outers have been backwards about
:08:40. > :08:45.coming forwards with that question, the answer to the question so many
:08:46. > :08:48.voters have. If we leave the EU, how would it affect how we all make a
:08:49. > :08:52.living? They have given us a skeleton but in terms of the
:08:53. > :08:57.practicalities, we haven't quite yet seen the flesh. There is an obvious
:08:58. > :09:02.appeal in saying yes, we could have the goodies without some of the
:09:03. > :09:05.nasties that come with the EU. In terms of those other questions,
:09:06. > :09:11.there are still blanks that are yet to be filled in. His vision has been
:09:12. > :09:15.roundly dismissed by the Remain campaign, described as utopian
:09:16. > :09:20.rubbish. The Bank of England Governor has given another warning
:09:21. > :09:23.about the risks of leaving. But for the Out campaign it was important
:09:24. > :09:28.today that they started to answer some of their critics and
:09:29. > :09:32.interesting, too, Michael Gove suggested something more radical,
:09:33. > :09:38.that we vote to leave, that could begin a process that unravelled the
:09:39. > :09:42.whole European Union. A reminder of that big political picture that
:09:43. > :09:48.could be at stake as we decide how to make up our minds. Money talks
:09:49. > :09:53.and for undecided voters, there are still questions on the economy that
:09:54. > :09:55.Vote Leave are yet to answer. Laura at Westminster, thank you.
:09:56. > :09:57.And the BBC's Reality Check team has more of the facts on the
:09:58. > :10:07.A father who was convicted of assaulting his six-week-old
:10:08. > :10:11.daughter, but whose conviction was then quashed, is now accused
:10:12. > :10:16.Ellie Butler died from a "catastrophic" head injury
:10:17. > :10:19.allegedly inflicted by her father Ben at their home
:10:20. > :10:23.He and Ellie's mother are accused of staging an elaborate cover up
:10:24. > :10:29.Alison Holt reports from the Old Bailey.
:10:30. > :10:32.On the upper level of these South London maisonettes,
:10:33. > :10:34.the Butler home was, according to the prosecution,
:10:35. > :10:41.The Old Bailey jury was told life was dominated by Ben Butler's anger,
:10:42. > :10:47.It is claimed in October 2013 he murdered his six-year-old
:10:48. > :10:51.daughter, Ellie, in a violent outburst.
:10:52. > :10:57.The jury also heard that in 2007 Butler was found guilty of harming
:10:58. > :11:04.She was taken into care, but on appeal, the conviction
:11:05. > :11:11.Inside Court 8 at the Old Bailey today, the prosecution painted
:11:12. > :11:16.a picture of life with Ben Butler and Ellie's mother, Jennie Gray.
:11:17. > :11:19.She denies child cruelty but has admitted perverting
:11:20. > :11:23.Their texts in the months before their daughter's
:11:24. > :11:28.In one Ben Butler says, "I can't cope anymore.
:11:29. > :11:33.One more mistake, I'm going to lose it."
:11:34. > :11:36.He was frequently abusive to Jennie Gray.
:11:37. > :11:39.In another he said, "You're dead when I come home.
:11:40. > :11:44.She would try to calm him saying, "I really do want you more
:11:45. > :11:51.But the court was told how Internet searches gave an insight
:11:52. > :11:57."I'm with a bully man who beats me and tells me I'm ugly and fat
:11:58. > :12:03.Prosecuting, Edward Brown QC described how on the day that Ellie
:12:04. > :12:07.died, Butler made four quick calls to Jennie Gray at her work
:12:08. > :12:13.The court was told that within minutes of Jennie Gray
:12:14. > :12:16.getting the phone calls from Ben Butler, she was here
:12:17. > :12:20.on Ludgate Hill just, round the corner from her work,
:12:21. > :12:24.The prosecution say that was part of a frantic reaction
:12:25. > :12:31.It is claimed at home the two staged things to look like Ellie
:12:32. > :12:35.had had an accident, then made a desperate 999 call.
:12:36. > :12:39.The jury was told Ellie had died two hours earlier.
:12:40. > :12:42.Ben Butler denies murder and the case continues.
:12:43. > :12:49.At least 28 people have been killed in a Taliban suicide bomb and gun
:12:50. > :12:51.assault on a government security building in the Afghan
:12:52. > :12:56.More than 300 people were wounded in the attack
:12:57. > :12:59.A car bomb was detonated near a security headquarters,
:13:00. > :13:01.and there was gun battle with police.
:13:02. > :13:05.The police said most of those killed were civilians.
:13:06. > :13:08.The General Medical Council has urged junior doctors in England
:13:09. > :13:11.to think hard about plans to take part in next week's first ever
:13:12. > :13:16.strike involving A, intensive care and maternity units.
:13:17. > :13:19.Junior doctors have taken part in a series of strikes
:13:20. > :13:21.as part of a bitter dispute with the Government over
:13:22. > :13:26.The growth of dementia in the UK may not be
:13:27. > :13:30.Research, published in the journal Nature, suggests new cases
:13:31. > :13:33.of dementia are up to a fifth lower than might have been
:13:34. > :13:38.The improvement in male health is thought partly to be
:13:39. > :13:47.responsible for the decline in the incidence of new cases.
:13:48. > :13:48.In just over two weeks' time voters in Scotland will go
:13:49. > :13:50.to the polls to elect a new parliament at Holyrood.
:13:51. > :13:52.All 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament are up for grabs
:13:53. > :13:54.and while the Scottish Nationalist are widely expected to win
:13:55. > :13:57.another majority, the race is on between Labour
:13:58. > :14:00.and the Conservatives for second place.
:14:01. > :14:05.Huw Edwards is live inside Holyrood, Huw.
:14:06. > :14:11.access to the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
:14:12. > :14:15.It's fast becoming one of the most powerful devolved bodies
:14:16. > :14:17.anywhere in the world and it's going to get even more
:14:18. > :14:21.powerful in the years ahead, with more control over taxation
:14:22. > :14:26.That's the all-important context to this year's elections
:14:27. > :14:28.which take place in just over two weeks' time.
:14:29. > :14:31.Scottish voters will be electing members
:14:32. > :14:33.to sit in this Chamber - a Chamber dominated
:14:34. > :14:38.by the Scottish National Party for much of the past decade.
:14:39. > :14:41.Our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, reports now on one
:14:42. > :14:50.of the main talking points of the campaign so far.
:14:51. > :14:52.The famous Forth Bridges - road and rail - are being joined
:14:53. > :14:59.Here, Scots can see what their taxes are being spent on.
:15:00. > :15:01.Before this bridge is finished, Scottish voters have a choice to
:15:02. > :15:07.Whoever wins this election will, for the first time, have the power
:15:08. > :15:14.to set income tax rates and that's what's dominating the debate.
:15:15. > :15:17.The Scottish Labour leader is making a bold pitch,
:15:18. > :15:22.Proposing to put a penny on the basic rate and higher rates
:15:23. > :15:27.of tax, while putting the top rate up to 50p.
:15:28. > :15:29.It is a very clear and simple message that we have
:15:30. > :15:32.for the Scottish electorate, if you want to stop the cuts
:15:33. > :15:35.and end austerity, invest in your children's future,
:15:36. > :15:38.you have to use the powers of the parliament to make different
:15:39. > :15:43.The SNP leader is playing a different game.
:15:44. > :15:46.Last year she too was arguing for a 50p top rate, now
:15:47. > :15:50.she is proposing far more modest changes.
:15:51. > :15:53.Saying only that she would not pass on the tax cut for higher earners
:15:54. > :15:59.The real difference between the SNP's tax proposals
:16:00. > :16:02.in this election and Labour's tax proposals, it is not at the top end,
:16:03. > :16:05.but how we are propsing to treat people on low and average incomes.
:16:06. > :16:08.Labour wants to increase tax on everybody, even if they earn
:16:09. > :16:13.We want to protect those on lower incomes -
:16:14. > :16:19.It is a curious feature of this election that the SNP,
:16:20. > :16:22.the party who have always argued for more powers for
:16:23. > :16:24.the Scottish Parliament, are taking a remarkably cautious
:16:25. > :16:28.approach to using the powers over taxation the parliament
:16:29. > :16:34.What is quite clear now with the SNP is despite the rhetoric -
:16:35. > :16:36.the wild rhetoric - condemning everybody else
:16:37. > :16:41.from the left, they are not prepared to do anything - far too cautious
:16:42. > :16:45.and timid and not ambitious for Scotland.
:16:46. > :16:48.The Lib Dems, like Labour, propose a penny on the basic
:16:49. > :16:51.and higher rates of tax, with a top rate of 46p.
:16:52. > :16:56.The Greens want to go further, with a 60p top rate, and a tax cut
:16:57. > :17:05.We do think it is absurd that very, very high earners, people
:17:06. > :17:08.on astronomical incomes, way beyond what most
:17:09. > :17:13.people will ever earn, are being undertaxed.
:17:14. > :17:18.We see an incredible gulf between rich and poor.
:17:19. > :17:23.The Tories had hoped to squeeze some tax cuts into their platform,
:17:24. > :17:26.but have decided Scotland can't afford that right now.
:17:27. > :17:28.They are enjoying being the only major party that does not
:17:29. > :17:35.We don't believe that you should have to pay more tax in Scotland
:17:36. > :17:40.We think it is bad for individuals, the money in their pocket,
:17:41. > :17:43.and we also think it's bad for the Scottish economy,
:17:44. > :17:45.to make us the highest taxed part of the UK.
:17:46. > :17:48.The new bridge, the Queen's Ferry Crossing has cost almost
:17:49. > :17:52.?1.5 billion of public money and will open later this year.
:17:53. > :17:55.All the political parties who propose higher taxes,
:17:56. > :17:57.are now making pledges to spend the money raised
:17:58. > :18:02.Giving voters in Scotland a choice - about whether they are prepared
:18:03. > :18:05.to pay more for the promise of increased public spending.
:18:06. > :18:13.Sarah Smith, BBC News, North Queensferry.
:18:14. > :18:20.We will be talking to Sarah in a few minutes' time about the campaign. A
:18:21. > :18:22.There A are 4 million people registered to vote in these local
:18:23. > :18:24.government and parliamentary elections and they include
:18:25. > :18:28.They'll be going to the polls some 18 months after the people of
:18:29. > :18:32.Scotland voted against independence in the referendum of 2014.
:18:33. > :18:35.The SNP has seen a big surge in membership in the meantime
:18:36. > :18:37.and there's confidence in many quarters that a second
:18:38. > :18:40.I've been speaking to two very experienced observers,
:18:41. > :18:41.with contrasting views, on the inevitability
:18:42. > :18:48.So we came to Parliament House in Edinburgh, built
:18:49. > :18:51.in the 17th-century to house the old Scottish Parliament and law
:18:52. > :18:53.courts, to discuss Scotland's future with one of the architects
:18:54. > :18:55.of devolution, and one of Scotland's leading
:18:56. > :19:00.Leslie, we are 18 months after the referendum,
:19:01. > :19:03.is it your view that Scotland is, nonetheless, still on the road
:19:04. > :19:07.I think it is, because Scotland has been getting more
:19:08. > :19:11.of a sense of itself, of a Scottish way of doing things,
:19:12. > :19:14.more confidence with all the process we've been through, and then
:19:15. > :19:17.watching as the rest of the UK - especially
:19:18. > :19:19.with a Conservative Government - is waltzing in the
:19:20. > :19:25.I don't think there's anything inevitable about this at all.
:19:26. > :19:27.History is only inevitable after it's over.
:19:28. > :19:31.What we've got is something that's evolving into what's as close
:19:32. > :19:33.as you can get to a federal arrangement, in a country
:19:34. > :19:37.in which 85% of the people are in one nation.
:19:38. > :19:41.If you look at the powers that the Scottish Parliament has,
:19:42. > :19:45.it has more powers than a federal unit in almost any federal state -
:19:46. > :19:48.more than the Swiss, more than the Canadians.
:19:49. > :19:50.So, what you can't say is it's not for looking.
:19:51. > :19:55.Looking from Edinburgh this feels more federal than it feels
:19:56. > :20:00.Does it have more borrowing powers than a local council?
:20:01. > :20:06.No local council in Scotland - or anywhere in the UK -
:20:07. > :20:13.Jim, given your role right at the start of this devolution
:20:14. > :20:15.journey back in '99, are there things that you would have
:20:16. > :20:17.done differently, given what has happened in the meantime?
:20:18. > :20:20.I think the thing that should have been done differently
:20:21. > :20:22.is that the Scottish Parliament should have had more tax powers
:20:23. > :20:27.A body which simply spends money and doesn't raise it, is not really
:20:28. > :20:33.With each iteration of an attempt to try and solve the Scottish
:20:34. > :20:35.problem, the legislators have been behind the curve.
:20:36. > :20:37.That's been true at the beginning, with the Scotland Bill,
:20:38. > :20:44.I just wish that somewhere along the line, British politicians had
:20:45. > :20:46.seen the opportunity that was presented for the whole
:20:47. > :20:48.of the UK, by beginning to think more systematically
:20:49. > :20:53.So to conclude, Jim, where do you think Scotland will be
:20:54. > :20:56.I'm rather disappointed that we won't be more different
:20:57. > :21:01.I think the record is that the Scottish Parliament,
:21:02. > :21:03.under all parties, to be fair, has been a cautious
:21:04. > :21:08.And in the next five years it will still be that.
:21:09. > :21:13.Because I don't think anyone in government has the incentive
:21:14. > :21:18.to do the radical thing, particularly if your long-term aim
:21:19. > :21:20.is constitutional change, you don't want to rock
:21:21. > :21:26.But if you're never going to reach that aim, at some point you have
:21:27. > :21:28.to face up to the choices that you have.
:21:29. > :21:31.Leslie, your sense of where Scotland will be in five years?
:21:32. > :21:33.Well, it all depends on the European referendum.
:21:34. > :21:36.If we do end up in the situation of the UK voting to leave
:21:37. > :21:40.but Scotland voting to stay in, that does look like a pretty healthy
:21:41. > :21:42.trigger for a reassessment of whether Scotland really fits any
:21:43. > :21:47.So it's hard to answer it now, because that is looming
:21:48. > :22:03.If we look at the polls, most anyway, this place will be dominated
:22:04. > :22:08.by the SNP for another five years. What is going on? What is your take
:22:09. > :22:11.on that? Well, whoever wins the election, they will have far more
:22:12. > :22:15.polls than they did. The polls suggest it will be the SNP. But
:22:16. > :22:18.whichever party. They will have control over income tax. That means
:22:19. > :22:22.that the Parliament will finally have responsibility for raising a
:22:23. > :22:26.lot of the money that it spends. So, every politician, going into this
:22:27. > :22:28.campaign, if they want to promise increased spending on health,
:22:29. > :22:32.education, anything else, they have to spell out exactly where the money
:22:33. > :22:35.is going to come from and that's a fairly profound change in Scottish
:22:36. > :22:41.politics. So that's what is at stake. If we think again, it is 18
:22:42. > :22:45.monthsp since the SNP and its allies lost the referendum, what is the key
:22:46. > :22:49.to its continued electoral success? We are still feeling the effect of
:22:50. > :22:52.the referendum, it transformed Scottish politics and polarised
:22:53. > :22:55.people. Scottish voters are basically divided in yes and no
:22:56. > :22:59.supporters and that has a big impact in what parties are likely to vote
:23:00. > :23:03.for. The SNP can expect most of the 45% who voted for independence to
:23:04. > :23:08.vote for them. That leaves Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats
:23:09. > :23:11.all fighting over the remaining 55% of unionist votes which shows you
:23:12. > :23:13.one of the reasons why they are trailing so far behind the SNP in
:23:14. > :23:17.the polls. Thank you very much. A quick reminder that there's
:23:18. > :23:19.plenty of material online about the Scottish elections
:23:20. > :23:22.and also about the elections That's bbc.co.uk/news
:23:23. > :23:31.and follow the links. But for now, from the Chamber
:23:32. > :23:34.of the Scottish Parliament, The number of people known to have
:23:35. > :23:49.died in the earthquake that hit Ecuador on Saturday has
:23:50. > :23:51.risen to 480, with around The country's president said
:23:52. > :23:55.it was the worst tragedy to hit the country for a decade,
:23:56. > :23:57.and estimated the cost of rebuilding The epicenter of the quake
:23:58. > :24:03.is the coastal city of Pedernales. Our Central America correspondent,
:24:04. > :24:15.Katy Watson, has been there today. The shocking devastation brought by
:24:16. > :24:23.nature. Less than a minute this quake lasted and hardly any house is
:24:24. > :24:26.in tact. This was the commercial centre for Pedernales. The shops and
:24:27. > :24:30.bars. They have been trying to clear bodies from the rubble in the past
:24:31. > :24:34.few days. They are still working on it there. People tell me there are
:24:35. > :24:39.many bodies trapped inside. They tell me there has been a lot of
:24:40. > :24:42.looting and community residents are coming back here to take what they
:24:43. > :24:46.can of their belongings before thieves get them. This man owned a
:24:47. > :24:53.small bar on the corner. He lost five of his family on Saturday. "It
:24:54. > :24:58.was so strong I lost my balance. I went to see my family and they were
:24:59. > :25:04.all huddled in a corridor. It seems they were trying to come downstairs
:25:05. > :25:07.but didn't make it," he said. His daughter-in-law was found cradling
:25:08. > :25:12.her six-week-old baby. Both were still alive. She pleaded with him to
:25:13. > :25:15.stay but when the authorities issue a tsunami warning, he had to run.
:25:16. > :25:19.When he returned mother and baby were dead. As diggers clear the
:25:20. > :25:24.rubble, residents are clearing up their lives, taking what is left to
:25:25. > :25:27.a safer place. International search and rescue teams have finally
:25:28. > :25:31.arrived but have only just started their work and so much is still
:25:32. > :25:36.unknown As we get access to more remote places, we are going to find
:25:37. > :25:40.more people, more needs, more people that have died, etc. The coffins are
:25:41. > :25:45.piling up at the local football stadium. On hand for each new body
:25:46. > :25:50.that is brought out from the rubble. With no homes to go back to,
:25:51. > :25:53.watching the clean-up is all that most residents can do, just waiting
:25:54. > :26:04.to sea whether anybody else can be found, dead or alive.
:26:05. > :26:11.In the last half hour, bosses at Tata Steel plant have announced they
:26:12. > :26:14.are planning a management buyout. A buyer would need to be backed by
:26:15. > :26:19.significant private investment and it is thought it would need support
:26:20. > :26:24.from the UK Government. The manage thement buyout bid is said to
:26:25. > :26:28.support retaining steel production in Port Talbot's furnaces.
:26:29. > :26:31.It's voting day in the presidential primary in New York state,
:26:32. > :26:33.where Republican candidate, Donald Trump, is aiming
:26:34. > :26:36.to get his campaign back on track after a major stumble in Wisconsin.
:26:37. > :26:38.He is expected to win by a big margin.
:26:39. > :26:41.It's his home state, where he lives in a building bearing his name.
:26:42. > :26:45.His name is emblazoned all over the city.
:26:46. > :26:48.This is where he built his corporate brand.
:26:49. > :26:51.But the politics of Donald Trump can also be traced back to New York
:26:52. > :26:56.and the seismic events that had such a traumatizing effect.
:26:57. > :26:59.Manhattan Island was not only the site of the destruction
:27:00. > :27:01.of the Twin Towers in September 2001, but also the collapse
:27:02. > :27:07.of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
:27:08. > :27:10.All these years on from 9/11 and the financial crash,
:27:11. > :27:14.those two massive convulsions continue to shape the contours
:27:15. > :27:17.of American politics and Donald Trump has exploited fears
:27:18. > :27:20.about Islamist terrorism and frustrations about the economy.
:27:21. > :27:26.Take the ferry to Staten Island, where you will find the blue-collar
:27:27. > :27:33."Make America great again", is a slogan that
:27:34. > :27:39.His autorepair business is yet to rebound from the great recession.
:27:40. > :27:45.Like so many working Americans, his income has been stagnant.
:27:46. > :27:54.People come in to repair their cars or whatever they are going to do.
:27:55. > :27:56.It is always, "I just haven't got it right now."
:27:57. > :28:01.Do you think Trump can turn it around?
:28:02. > :28:06.I think we've got a good guy going there.
:28:07. > :28:10.Friday prayers in uptown Manhattan, where worshippers come dressed
:28:11. > :28:16.in the flag of their country and the uniform of the NYPD.
:28:17. > :28:21.No city has a richer tradition of ethnic diversity but the memory
:28:22. > :28:23.of 9/11 continues to stir fears of the other
:28:24. > :28:31.A recent poll suggested a majority of voters support Donald Trump's
:28:32. > :28:35.proposed ban on foreign Muslims entering the country and that's made
:28:36. > :28:39.these Americans feel like outsiders in their homeland.
:28:40. > :28:49.I think he is trying to do what he wants to do to get votes.
:28:50. > :28:52.You know, he's trying to sort of pander to his audience.
:28:53. > :28:54.This is the land of God, not land of Trump.
:28:55. > :28:59.New York has always stood as a symbol, not just of America's
:29:00. > :29:03.brash self-confidence but also its optimistic spirit.
:29:04. > :29:07.Fear and frustration have propelled the presidential ambitions of one
:29:08. > :29:10.of its most famous sons, but not enough, perhaps, to take him
:29:11. > :29:23.The Queen celebrates her birthday this week, joining the growing ranks
:29:24. > :29:29.There are almost three times as many people over 90 in the UK
:29:30. > :29:34.And for every 100 men aged 90, there are 249 women.
:29:35. > :29:36.Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, went to meet two of
:29:37. > :29:44.They're the last of what's been called, "The greatest generation."
:29:45. > :29:49.At 90, wing-walking John from Leicester and sky-diving Stella
:29:50. > :29:55.from Exeter, display characteristic tenacity and sheer pluck.
:29:56. > :29:57.What was it like when you were on the wing?
:29:58. > :30:08.And I just wanted to go just to have the feeling that they've got
:30:09. > :30:32.See where there is a bus going and get on the bus and go.
:30:33. > :30:39.It's wonderful because you have a free bus ticket.
:30:40. > :30:45.It is a generation whose formative years were dominated by war.
:30:46. > :30:49.At 17, John found himself in the rear turret of a Lancaster,
:30:50. > :30:56.There was a lot of flashes and bombs and of course it was
:30:57. > :31:00.You couldn't see a lot of the ground.
:31:01. > :31:04.What would be going through your mind?
:31:05. > :31:21.The people at home were the fighters,
:31:22. > :31:23.as well as the ones that went to war.
:31:24. > :31:30.Just as they defied the Nazis, so this generation confronts
:31:31. > :31:34.For John, it's been dealing with the agony of losing his
:31:35. > :31:44.We were three weeks off our golden wedding anniversary and after being
:31:45. > :31:48.all that time together, then they don't know you,
:31:49. > :31:56.You have to shake it off and get on with life.
:31:57. > :31:59.The rebellious youth movements of the '50s and '60s were troubling
:32:00. > :32:03.to a generation which never enjoyed such care free days.
:32:04. > :32:07.Technology, too, seemed a threat to simpler times.
:32:08. > :32:09.Before television came, you'd have friends around
:32:10. > :32:14.When television came, people stayed in their own homes.
:32:15. > :32:24.Britain's 500,000 90-somethings tend to see public service as a duty.
:32:25. > :32:27.After leaving the Air Force, John volunteered to become
:32:28. > :32:33.a Special Constable, rising up through the ranks.
:32:34. > :32:37.People did in those days, helped out.
:32:38. > :32:43.They had to do if you were in the war.
:32:44. > :32:45.In our generation, it sort of carried on.
:32:46. > :32:50.That commitment to service, such a feature of the Queen's own life,
:32:51. > :32:52.brought John and his beloved monarch face-to-face when he
:32:53. > :33:03.She is so lovely, calm and I had no problem talking to her.
:33:04. > :33:05.The fortitude and discipline that epitomises the so-called greatest
:33:06. > :33:09.generation are often seen as qualities of the Queen and those
:33:10. > :33:14.who've grown old with her retain a deep respect.
:33:15. > :33:22.I would like to wish my Queen a very happy 90th birthday.
:33:23. > :33:25.Being 90 is a great challenge for many.
:33:26. > :33:29.But for those who still can, there is an inspiring