:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight at Ten - President Obama spells out his reasons
:00:07. > :00:10.for wanting Britain to remain in the European Union.
:00:11. > :00:13.Calling himself a close friend and ally, he insisted that British
:00:14. > :00:18.influence in the world was enhanced by being in the EU.
:00:19. > :00:23.If one of our best friends is in an organisation that
:00:24. > :00:26.enhances their influence and enhances their power
:00:27. > :00:34.and enhances their economy, then I want them to stay in it.
:00:35. > :00:37.And he warned that if Britain left, it would face problems
:00:38. > :00:42.negotiating its own trade deal with America.
:00:43. > :00:47.Our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc of the European union
:00:48. > :00:50.Our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc of the European Union
:00:51. > :00:53.to get a trade agreement done, and the UK is going to be
:00:54. > :00:57.As the president spent the day underlining the special
:00:58. > :01:02.relationship, his message on the EU was not universally welcomed.
:01:03. > :01:08.It's very odd that the United States, which guards its sovereignty
:01:09. > :01:14.so zealously and so jealously, should be giving us lectures.
:01:15. > :01:16.We'll have details of the president's forthright
:01:17. > :01:18.intervention, and the reaction, and we'll be asking how it might
:01:19. > :01:25.Police investigating the sudden death of the pop star Prince say
:01:26. > :01:28.it is too early to establish the cause - but don't
:01:29. > :01:34.A landmark agreement to slow the pace of climate change has been
:01:35. > :01:43.signed at a ceremony at the UN in New York.
:01:44. > :01:45.And exploring Shakespeare's legacy on the 400th
:01:46. > :01:56.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - it's make
:01:57. > :01:59.or break for Leicester City, in their bid for an historic first
:02:00. > :02:24.In a forthright intervention, President Obama has set
:02:25. > :02:26.out his reasons for opposing a British exit
:02:27. > :02:33.He insisted it was in the interests of both the UK and America
:02:34. > :02:37.Time and again, he underlined the economic benefits of membership,
:02:38. > :02:39.as he saw them, and warned that if Britain left,
:02:40. > :02:42.it would be at the "back of the queue" for an independent
:02:43. > :02:47.Mr Obama's intervention was dismissed as "perverse"
:02:48. > :02:49.and "hypocritical" by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
:02:50. > :02:51.This report by our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, does contain
:02:52. > :03:10.Who takes a helicopter to a birthday lunch? The 54-year-old American
:03:11. > :03:14.president and his wife. To meet the 90-year-old British monarch and her
:03:15. > :03:20.husband and sometimes chauffeur. Even they did not seem sure of the
:03:21. > :03:23.etiquette of who gets to sit in the front. But once the niceties were
:03:24. > :03:29.done, the entourage sped from Windsor to Westminster. The pizzazz
:03:30. > :03:33.of the presidency, the power of the office. The megawatt political
:03:34. > :03:40.celebrity of the man himself. It could not be doing and by the
:03:41. > :03:46.Downing Street rain, as Barack Obama arrived to add his pure force to the
:03:47. > :03:50.Prime Minister's biggest ever fight. Even before the president delivered
:03:51. > :03:56.his verdict, David Cameron looked like he could hardly believe his
:03:57. > :04:01.luck - and his friendship. I am honoured to have Barack Obama as a
:04:02. > :04:05.friend. He has taught me the rules of basketball, he has beaten me at
:04:06. > :04:09.table tennis. We were actually partners in that ping-pong game, and
:04:10. > :04:13.we lost to some schoolchildren. Jokes over, Mr Cameron has always
:04:14. > :04:18.said, if you are tempted to leave the EU, don't kid yourself you would
:04:19. > :04:21.be able to trade with the rest of the world. I figured you would want
:04:22. > :04:27.to hear from the President of the United States as to what I thinks
:04:28. > :04:30.the United States might do. On that matter, for example, I think it is
:04:31. > :04:35.fair to say that maybe some point down the line, there might meet a
:04:36. > :04:39.UK-US trade agreement, but it is not going to happen any time soon
:04:40. > :04:43.because our focus is on negotiating with a big block, the European
:04:44. > :04:48.Union, to get a trade agreement done. And the UK is going to be at
:04:49. > :04:52.the back of the queue. I am very proud to have had the opportunity to
:04:53. > :04:56.be Prime Minister, and to stand outside the White House, listening
:04:57. > :04:59.to this man, my friend Barack Obama, say that the special relationship
:05:00. > :05:02.between our countries has never been stronger. But I have never felt
:05:03. > :05:08.constrained in any way by the fact that we are in the European Union.
:05:09. > :05:14.The American president warned of the risks of stitching Europe 's fabric.
:05:15. > :05:18.Ultimately this is something the British voters have to decide for
:05:19. > :05:24.themselves. But as part of our special relationship, part of being
:05:25. > :05:32.friends is to be honest. And to let you know what I think. And speaking
:05:33. > :05:35.honestly, the outcome of that decision is a matter of deep
:05:36. > :05:41.interest to the United States, because it affects our prospects as
:05:42. > :05:44.well. In the 21st century, the nations which make their presence
:05:45. > :05:48.felt on the world stage are not the nations that go it alone for those
:05:49. > :05:54.that team up to aggregate their power and multiply their influence.
:05:55. > :05:57.Are you also saying that our decades-old special relationship,
:05:58. > :06:02.which has been through so much, would be fundamentally damaged and
:06:03. > :06:06.changed by our exit? And do you have any sympathy with people who think
:06:07. > :06:16.this is none of your business? We are so bound together but nothing is
:06:17. > :06:19.going to impact the emotional and cultural and intellectual affinities
:06:20. > :06:25.between our two countries. One of our best friends is in an
:06:26. > :06:35.organisation which enhances their influence and power and economy,
:06:36. > :06:39.then I want them to stay in it. David Cameron's enemies in the
:06:40. > :06:46.European campaign branded Mr Obama a hypocrite for intervening. Their
:06:47. > :06:50.biggest player, Boris Johnson, even questioned his motives. The American
:06:51. > :06:54.leader removed this bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Mr
:06:55. > :07:01.Johnson wondered in print whether that was a symbol of the part Kenyan
:07:02. > :07:05.resident's ancestral dislike of the British Empire. That was met by the
:07:06. > :07:10.American president with a silky but deadly slap down. Prime Minister, if
:07:11. > :07:14.I may, some of your colleagues believe it is utterly wrong that you
:07:15. > :07:18.have dragged our closest ally into the EU referendum campaign - is it
:07:19. > :07:23.appropriate for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to have brought up
:07:24. > :07:26.President Obama's Kenyan ancestry in the context of this debate?
:07:27. > :07:35.Questions for Boris are not questions for me. I love Winston
:07:36. > :07:42.Churchill. I love the guy! Now, when I was elected as President of the
:07:43. > :07:47.United States, my predecessor had kept a Churchill bust in the Oval
:07:48. > :07:50.Office. There are only so many tables where you can put busts,
:07:51. > :07:55.otherwise it starts looking a little cluttered. And I felt it was
:07:56. > :07:59.appropriate, and I suspect that most people here in the United Kingdom
:08:00. > :08:05.might agree, that as the first African-American president, it might
:08:06. > :08:12.be appropriate to have a bust of Dr Martin McShane king in my office.
:08:13. > :08:16.So, what did the Out campaign's biggest character have to say in
:08:17. > :08:19.response? The crucial thing that Winston Churchill stood for, and I
:08:20. > :08:24.think the crucial thing which America stands for, is
:08:25. > :08:29.representative democracy. And the problem with the EU is that nobody
:08:30. > :08:36.knows who is in charge, nobody knows who is making these decisions. And
:08:37. > :08:39.as I say, I think it is very, very weird that the United States should
:08:40. > :08:43.be telling us to do something they would not dream of doing in a
:08:44. > :08:46.million years themselves. The Prime Minister and President Obama do not
:08:47. > :08:52.share the political intimacy of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan,
:08:53. > :08:57.nor a, and controversial cause, like George W Bush and Tony Blair. But by
:08:58. > :09:01.speaking so powerfully in favour of Britain staying in the EU, Barack
:09:02. > :09:06.Obama has done David Cameron much more than a favour. He has said that
:09:07. > :09:11.on the EU, he is right and his rivals are wrong. Politics over, it
:09:12. > :09:15.was time for a private dinner at Kensington Palace. Cambridge's
:09:16. > :09:27.probably do not have to worry if the champagne is being put on ice. It is
:09:28. > :09:33.in No 10 that the corks might really pop tonight. Laura Kuenssberg, what
:09:34. > :09:37.kind of impact could this intervention have on the campaign,
:09:38. > :09:41.in your view? If Downing Street had written a script for President
:09:42. > :09:45.Obama, I don't think they would have dared write lines which were so firm
:09:46. > :09:51.and clear in his conviction that we would be wrong to leave the European
:09:52. > :09:55.Union. And particularly because jobs and the economy are right at the
:09:56. > :09:58.centre of this debate. His suggestion that we would be sent to
:09:59. > :10:07.the back of the queue if we left, looking for a trade deal, laid down
:10:08. > :10:10.a very big challenge to the Out campaign, who also find themselves
:10:11. > :10:16.with another problem tonight - a real rebuke to one of their biggest
:10:17. > :10:19.political players. President Obama, without even mentioning his name,
:10:20. > :10:25.slamming Boris Johnson's comments. Now, the big question, which we do
:10:26. > :10:29.not know the answer to, and we will not know until the end of June, is,
:10:30. > :10:33.whether or not these kind of interventions will really shift any
:10:34. > :10:39.votes? How many of us come in the privacy of the polling booth, with
:10:40. > :10:43.the pencil hovering over the boxes, we'll really think back to the words
:10:44. > :10:46.of President Obama, and that will be what makes up our mind? And
:10:47. > :10:53.remember, there are another two months to go in this campaign, and
:10:54. > :10:58.20 more noises and debate to come. Jon Sopel, do you think that the
:10:59. > :11:04.president achieved what he set out to achieve today? So much of what we
:11:05. > :11:08.do is to try to decipher and decode what politicians say. What did they
:11:09. > :11:13.really mean? No need with Barack Obama. He could not have been more
:11:14. > :11:17.blunt. There was deliberate calculation from the White House.
:11:18. > :11:21.They thought that it would alienate some people, him being so direct,
:11:22. > :11:25.but he wanted to say what he wanted to say very clearly indeed. That
:11:26. > :11:30.said, I am picking up some unease this evening from senior White House
:11:31. > :11:34.staff about that phrase, the back of queue fills -- the back of the
:11:35. > :11:41.queue. I am told it was not in the script. Americans never say that,
:11:42. > :11:46.they would say, back of the line. But Barack Obama wanted to put down
:11:47. > :11:50.a marker on that. This was not about helping David Cameron. This was
:11:51. > :11:54.about the American political and economic establishment wanting to
:11:55. > :11:58.say that they think it would be ruinous and precarious for Britain
:11:59. > :12:01.to leave the European Union. As for the American people, I suspect they
:12:02. > :12:07.will be much more transfixed on the dinner this evening with the Duke
:12:08. > :12:11.and Duchess of and lunch with the Queen at Windsor, and how on earth
:12:12. > :12:13.the Secret Service allowed a man who is nearly 95 years old to be driving
:12:14. > :12:18.the president up to the castle! A postmortem examination has been
:12:19. > :12:22.carried out to determine what caused the death of the American pop star
:12:23. > :12:24.Prince. He was found dead at his home
:12:25. > :12:26.in Minneapolis yesterday. Local officials have been giving
:12:27. > :12:29.details tonight about the emergency Our correspondent
:12:30. > :12:46.James Cook is in Yes, that news conference was held
:12:47. > :12:50.by the sheriff who is investigating. It finished in the last half an hour
:12:51. > :12:55.or so. It revealed that the postmortem has been completed, the
:12:56. > :13:02.body has been returned to Prince's family. We are told there were no
:13:03. > :13:06.signs of trauma on Prince's body, no signs that he committed suicide. But
:13:07. > :13:09.the sheriff was unwilling to discuss speculation that Prince may have
:13:10. > :13:13.been taking prescription drugs in the days leading up to his death,
:13:14. > :13:16.and that perhaps that might have contributed. It could be some time
:13:17. > :13:20.before we know that. Ray. But this has been another difficult day for
:13:21. > :13:27.Prince's family and his many admirers.
:13:28. > :13:34.Fans have been mourning a lost icon and wondering why this remarkable
:13:35. > :13:37.life was cut short. Today, police gave a little more detail, saying
:13:38. > :13:44.there were no signs of trauma on his body. We have no reason to believe
:13:45. > :13:50.that this point that this was a suicide, but this is early in the
:13:51. > :13:56.investigation and it is continuing to investigate. The focus is his
:13:57. > :13:59.Paisley Park home and studio. It appears the artist was already dead
:14:00. > :14:10.when he was found slumped in a lift yesterday morning.
:14:11. > :14:16.Exactly how Prince died here is still unclear and the county
:14:17. > :14:24.coroner's office has warned it could be several weeks before the results
:14:25. > :14:28.of toxicology tests are known. Meanwhile, he continues to be
:14:29. > :14:32.celebrated in death, as he was in life. On Broadway, Jennifer Hudson
:14:33. > :14:39.lead the cast of the colour purple in this tribute.
:14:40. > :14:44.# Purple aim, purple Ayn Hend #
:14:45. > :14:48.For his friends, his sudden, still unexplained death, is clearly raw. I
:14:49. > :14:55.think I would probably break down if I do a song right now. But, you
:14:56. > :15:00.know, he was incredible and I am just glad that I was able to say to
:15:01. > :15:10.him, I love you, the last time I saw him.
:15:11. > :15:14.In Minneapolis, where a star was born and where he died, they partied
:15:15. > :15:21.all night, remembering a local hero who became a global superstar.
:15:22. > :15:27.Across the United States and beyond, one colour said it all. Famous
:15:28. > :15:30.landmarks glowing in tribute, and everywhere, singing and dancing in
:15:31. > :15:33.memory of an artist who redefined music. James Cook, BBC News,
:15:34. > :15:36.Minnesota. A teenager who had an obsession
:15:37. > :15:38.with serial killers has been convicted of murdering two strangers
:15:39. > :15:41.in knife attacks in James Fairweather stabbed his
:15:42. > :15:44.victims after picking them at random He had denied murder on the grounds
:15:45. > :15:48.of diminished responsibility, as our correspondent
:15:49. > :15:54.Duncan Kennedy reports. This is the 15-year-old schoolboy
:15:55. > :15:56.who's become one of Britain's In this chilling police interview,
:15:57. > :16:02.James Fairweather calmly admits While I was doing that,
:16:03. > :16:15.my voices were laughing and laughing and laughing,
:16:16. > :16:17.louder and louder. After he left this bar
:16:18. > :16:22.in Colchester, Fairweather Three months after,
:16:23. > :16:29.he murdered Nahid Almanea, He was arrested carrying this knife,
:16:30. > :16:35.en route to a third victim, when a member of the public
:16:36. > :16:40.saw him acting suspiciously. Today, James Atfield's
:16:41. > :16:43.mother, Julie, spoke We had no idea the
:16:44. > :16:48.killer was so young. James Fairweather is a monster
:16:49. > :16:51.in our eyes and we will never be Fairweather told police officers
:16:52. > :16:57.he was psychotic, that he was doing the Devil's work
:16:58. > :17:00.as he carried out his killings. But detectives say he had a much
:17:01. > :17:06.more dangerous fixation. That was his obsession with serial
:17:07. > :17:08.killers, like the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe,
:17:09. > :17:11.the Stockwell Strangler, Kenneth Erskine, and Ted Bundy,
:17:12. > :17:18.watching DVDs about their crimes. Some want to be footballers,
:17:19. > :17:20.some want to be ballet dancers, some want to be pop stars,
:17:21. > :17:23.some want to be ordinary people with ordinary lives they can
:17:24. > :17:25.go about and enjoy. This particular offender,
:17:26. > :17:28.through a fascination with serial killers,
:17:29. > :17:32.wanted to become a serial killer. The families of both victims say
:17:33. > :17:34.they've been devastated by the actions of James Fairweather,
:17:35. > :17:38.still only 17, and who will be Duncan Kennedy, BBC
:17:39. > :17:47.News in Guildford. A landmark agreement to slow
:17:48. > :17:50.the pace of climate change has been signed at a ceremony
:17:51. > :17:52.at the United Nations headquarters in New York.175 countries
:17:53. > :17:57.signed up to the deal. The treaty aims to keep global
:17:58. > :18:01.warming "well below" 2 degrees, The plan was due to come
:18:02. > :18:07.into force by 2020. But China, one of the world's
:18:08. > :18:09.biggest polluters, said today that it planned to ratify
:18:10. > :18:12.the changes this year. From New York, our science editor
:18:13. > :18:15.David Shukman reports. From all over the world,
:18:16. > :18:17.there are signs of change. Up in the Arctic, the lowest level
:18:18. > :18:20.of winter ice since In the Philippines, riots
:18:21. > :18:24.during a drought blamed on And floods in Britain
:18:25. > :18:29.last winter which scientists say were more likely
:18:30. > :18:33.with rising temperatures. Today, at UN headquarters,
:18:34. > :18:35.came appeals for We ask you to protect it,
:18:36. > :18:46.or we and all living things Now is the time to bring
:18:47. > :18:56.a concrete change And then, a ceremony
:18:57. > :19:03.to sign the new Paris The US Secretary of State, John
:19:04. > :19:09.Kerry, brought his granddaughter. In all, about 170
:19:10. > :19:11.countries queued up to sign the document -
:19:12. > :19:16.a record turnout for any UN treaty. The next stage is for countries
:19:17. > :19:19.to ratify it, and on that, there was a
:19:20. > :19:22.significant announcement. TRANSLATION: We will
:19:23. > :19:25.make early accession... The Chinese vice-premier,
:19:26. > :19:27.Zhang Gaoli, said his largest polluter,
:19:28. > :19:32.would join by September. This comes amid mounting concern
:19:33. > :19:36.about rising global temperatures. Over the past century,
:19:37. > :19:39.these are the years that have set And after another record set
:19:40. > :19:45.last year, look how this With all the warm words
:19:46. > :19:49.being uttered here, you might think this new
:19:50. > :19:51.agreement on climate It is now up to each individual
:19:52. > :19:56.country to turn their So, no surprise that all eyes
:19:57. > :20:01.are on the United States, with the presidential elections
:20:02. > :20:03.coming up, and Republican candidates who just don't
:20:04. > :20:07.want any part of this. We don't know who is the next
:20:08. > :20:10.president, and what standard the new
:20:11. > :20:14.administration will take. Amid the uncertainty, Nasa has
:20:15. > :20:20.released this new video, meant The operators of Alton Towers theme
:20:21. > :20:31.park, Merlin Attractions, could face a multi-million pound
:20:32. > :20:35.fine after they admitted breaching health and safety laws when a roller
:20:36. > :20:37.coaster crashed last June, The most seriously injured victims
:20:38. > :20:44.were in court to hear that staff procedures were "not as safe
:20:45. > :20:54.as they should have been". Leicester started the season
:20:55. > :20:56.as favourites to be relegated from the Premier League, but they've been
:20:57. > :20:59.top of the table since January and currently have a five-point lead
:21:00. > :21:02.with four games to go. Their Italian manager,
:21:03. > :21:04.Claudio Ranieri, has so far been tight-lipped about their prospects,
:21:05. > :21:06.but has now told the BBC that they're putting "heart and soul"
:21:07. > :21:09.into winning the title. He's on the verge of masterminding
:21:10. > :21:15.a true sporting fairy tale. So far, Claudio Ranieri has taken it
:21:16. > :21:18.all in his stride, the Leicester City manager refusing
:21:19. > :21:22.to get carried away. But today he told me
:21:23. > :21:24.the Premier League leaders were intent on completing
:21:25. > :21:27.a remarkable journey. Four matches to go,
:21:28. > :21:29.we are straightaway Trying to win the title,
:21:30. > :21:38.with all our strength, heart, soul. Try, because now
:21:39. > :21:43.is the right moment. Having been 5000-1 to win the title
:21:44. > :21:54.before the start of the season, Leicester City have defied
:21:55. > :21:56.all expectations and now need just eight points to guarantee
:21:57. > :21:58.one of the greatest Does it feel like a dream at
:21:59. > :22:03.times, this? Because when I came here,
:22:04. > :22:09.I said I hope to make But of course, never,
:22:10. > :22:15.never, never come think Leicester City's squad cost
:22:16. > :22:23.a fraction of some of the club's much wealthier
:22:24. > :22:25.Premier League rivals. But Ranieri has forged a special
:22:26. > :22:29.bond with his players. They have energy,
:22:30. > :22:37.electricity inside. It is fantastic,
:22:38. > :22:41.it's good, it's good. The charismatic Italian puts
:22:42. > :22:53.the underdogs' success down to a host of factors,
:22:54. > :22:56.among them the support of the club's But he believes whatever
:22:57. > :22:59.happens this season, Leicester, a little team,
:23:00. > :23:06.can fight against the biggest Ranieri's long managerial career has
:23:07. > :23:23.taken him on a tour of some He's never won a league title,
:23:24. > :23:29.but that could be about to change. Ranieri has already guided
:23:30. > :23:43.Leicester City to the Champions Now all that remains is for them
:23:44. > :23:47.to become champions and seal a place Tomorrow, the 400th anniversary
:23:48. > :23:55.of the death of William Shakespeare will be marked with a series
:23:56. > :23:57.of events across Britain, His works have been translated
:23:58. > :24:01.into more than 80 languages, and Will Gompertz has been
:24:02. > :24:03.exploring the bard's legacy, with Shakespearean actor
:24:04. > :24:10.Simon Russell Beale. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
:24:11. > :24:15.creeps in this petty pace from day-to-day,
:24:16. > :24:17.to the last syllable He is arguably more popular now
:24:18. > :24:25.than he has ever been There is a school of thought that
:24:26. > :24:41.thinks it is entirely constructed fame, isn't it, to do with cultural
:24:42. > :24:48.pressures, the British Empire, English being spread
:24:49. > :24:52.through the world. There are people who believe that
:24:53. > :24:55.but I don't think he could have survived that kind of pressure
:24:56. > :24:58.unless he was very, very good. This blessed plot, this earth,
:24:59. > :25:05.this realm, this England. He writes characters
:25:06. > :25:07.that you can Doing Hamlet, for instance,
:25:08. > :25:11.the worst thing you can possibly do is worry about what previous
:25:12. > :25:13.Hamlets did. You have to convince yourself,
:25:14. > :25:16.and it is certainly true that your Hamlet will be unlike any
:25:17. > :25:19.other Hamlet that's ever been. That's sort of true
:25:20. > :25:22.for all of those parts, And with the very great parts
:25:23. > :25:29.like Hamlet, they are limitless, and therefore cannot
:25:30. > :25:33.be done "properly." Whether tis nobler in the mind
:25:34. > :25:42.to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take
:25:43. > :25:46.arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing,
:25:47. > :25:49.end them. Of course, nowadays,
:25:50. > :25:59.Shakespeare's plays are taken around the world, you have taken
:26:00. > :26:01.them around the world. Yes, you could probably go anywhere
:26:02. > :26:04.in the world and say, "To be or not to be" and people
:26:05. > :26:06.would recognise it. He must be, he must be the only
:26:07. > :26:10.truly international writer. We are such stuff as dreams are made
:26:11. > :26:18.on, and our little life I suppose the most obvious thing
:26:19. > :26:24.about Shakespeare's plays is that they are imbued
:26:25. > :26:28.with universal themes. Yes, absolutely, and
:26:29. > :26:30.I'm sure that's why You have to go to the big boys
:26:31. > :26:43.and girls for that, really. No, you unnatural hags, I will have
:26:44. > :26:59.such revenges on you both that I will do such things,
:27:00. > :27:06.what they are, I know not, but they shall be the terrors
:27:07. > :27:14.of the Earth. But we'll leave you with some
:27:15. > :27:19.of the lasting images of the presidential visit today,
:27:20. > :27:23.which wasn't all about politics. It does contain some
:27:24. > :27:25.flash photography. I have to say, I have never
:27:26. > :27:38.been driven And I can report that it
:27:39. > :27:48.was very smooth riding. The Queen has been a source
:27:49. > :27:56.of inspiration for me, like so many She is truly one of my favourite
:27:57. > :28:03.people. She is an astonishing person
:28:04. > :28:07.and a real jewel to the world,