:00:07. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten - President Obama ends his visit to UK -
:00:10. > :00:11.urging Britain not to pull up the drawbridge.
:00:12. > :00:13.He tells me that in an increasingly interconnected world,
:00:14. > :00:18.Britain is better off staying in the European Union.
:00:19. > :00:20.It would be, I think, tempting, for a lot of people,
:00:21. > :00:24.to believe that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we can carve
:00:25. > :00:26.a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems
:00:27. > :00:34.As the president travelled on to Germany - campaigners
:00:35. > :00:37.in Britain dismissed his warning that it could take a decade
:00:38. > :00:47.to negotiate an independent trade deal outside the EU.
:00:48. > :00:57.If Australia, with a tiny obsession in relative terms, can conclude a
:00:58. > :00:59.trade deal in ten months, we can do better than that.
:01:00. > :01:01.We'll have more reaction to the president's intervention -
:01:02. > :01:03.and we'll have the latest from Germany.
:01:04. > :01:06.The retailer BHS could file for administration
:01:07. > :01:08.as soon as tomorrow - putting 11,000 jobs at risk.
:01:09. > :01:11.Dozens of councils say the plans to force all schools in England
:01:12. > :01:13.to become academies could fail to raise standards.
:01:14. > :01:16.And - Eliud Kipchogi of Kenya wins the London Marathon with a course
:01:17. > :01:18.record and his compatriot Jemima Sumgong did recover
:01:19. > :01:54.President Obama's warning that it could take Britain up to a decade
:01:55. > :01:57.to secure a trade deal with the USA outside the European Union has been
:01:58. > :01:59.dismissed by those campaigning for Britain to leave.
:02:00. > :02:03.Mr Obama had previously said the UK would be at the 'back of the queue'
:02:04. > :02:08.Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said British voters would not take
:02:09. > :02:11.The president has travelled on to Germany today but before
:02:12. > :02:14.he left, I asked him to explain how it would be possible for Britain
:02:15. > :02:17.to have a special relationship with America and be at the back
:02:18. > :02:26.Actually the special relationship is not contingent on
:02:27. > :02:34.There are emotional and cultural and commercial and strategic bonds
:02:35. > :02:36.between our two countries that are unmatched by any two countries
:02:37. > :02:43.As a practical matter, what we are doing with
:02:44. > :02:45.respect to trade is negotiating with big
:02:46. > :02:48.blocks of countries, because
:02:49. > :02:50.negotiating trade deals are a heavy lift.
:02:51. > :02:52.They are challenging, they are
:02:53. > :02:56.It is the phrase isn't it, back of the queue, which has I
:02:57. > :02:58.suppose offended some people and alarmed or scared some people.
:02:59. > :03:04.it was simply a response I think to the argument I've heard
:03:05. > :03:07.from others who are proposing to leave the EU,
:03:08. > :03:13.that somehow America would be able to do
:03:14. > :03:18.things more quickly with the UK
:03:19. > :03:20.than if they were in the European Union.
:03:21. > :03:26.that wouldn't be the case in this narrow issue of trade.
:03:27. > :03:28.The UK would not be able to negotiate something
:03:29. > :03:31.with the United States faster than the EU.
:03:32. > :03:37.We wouldn't abandon our efforts to negotiate trade deal with
:03:38. > :03:42.our largest trading partner, the European market.
:03:43. > :03:44.But rather it could be five years from now, ten years
:03:45. > :03:47.from now before we were able to get something done.
:03:48. > :03:51.So maybe not right at the back of the queue, towards
:03:52. > :03:56.the back of the queue, is that right?
:03:57. > :04:04.that if you're interested in trade, we are on the cusp of getting a
:04:05. > :04:08.trade deal done with the European Union.
:04:09. > :04:11.If I am a business person or a worker in Britain and I'm
:04:12. > :04:20.looking at the fact that I already have access seamlessly with a
:04:21. > :04:24.massive market, one of the wealthiest
:04:25. > :04:31.accounts for 44% of my exports, the idea that I'm going to be in a
:04:32. > :04:38.better position to export and trade by being outside of that market and
:04:39. > :04:41.not being in the room setting the rules and standards
:04:42. > :04:48.by which trade takes place I think is erroneous.
:04:49. > :04:50.You've been very clear, the special relationship,
:04:51. > :04:52.you just said it, is much more than trade.
:04:53. > :04:55.It is much more than that. Exactly.
:04:56. > :04:57.We've been focusing on lots of things, including intelligence
:04:58. > :05:00.from terrorist groups around the world.
:05:01. > :05:06.Is it possible to say today if there were an exit from the
:05:07. > :05:08.EU, those elements of the special relationship wouldn't be affected?
:05:09. > :05:17.in the sense that our services work closely together.
:05:18. > :05:25.Our ability to do things together will not be changed.
:05:26. > :05:27.What we do believe is that the United
:05:28. > :05:35.Kingdom will have less influence in Europe and as a consequence less
:05:36. > :05:40.Since we rely heavily on the UK as a partner
:05:41. > :05:43.globally, on a whole range of issues, we would like to have more
:05:44. > :05:56.There will be some people watching, who put a much higher price on the
:05:57. > :06:04.bond with the US than they do with the EU. And they will say that you
:06:05. > :06:08.are being very clear. If that is the case, we should not be concerned
:06:09. > :06:13.about coming out. That is how they will relate the argument. What would
:06:14. > :06:20.you say to that? If the countries that are closest to you, that care
:06:21. > :06:28.about you the most, the countries with who you incorporate most
:06:29. > :06:31.freely, those that you have a special relationship with, that are
:06:32. > :06:36.suggesting that you might want to stay in this relationship with
:06:37. > :06:45.Europe, it is worth paying attention to. There's a sharp focus on the
:06:46. > :06:49.flash points around the world. Are you concerned in the European
:06:50. > :06:54.context that British Parliament has shown little appetite for engaging
:06:55. > :07:01.in Syria. What do you think about the options you have? Syria has been
:07:02. > :07:09.a heartbreaking situation of enormous complexity. I don't think
:07:10. > :07:13.that there are any simple solutions to Syria, and those that pretend
:07:14. > :07:17.that there are probably have not been paying attention to the
:07:18. > :07:26.details. It is my view that it would be a mistake for the United States
:07:27. > :07:34.or Great Britain or eight common nation of Western states to send in
:07:35. > :07:37.ground troops and overthrow the Assad regime. Part of the reason
:07:38. > :07:43.that Europe has been dealing with such a big migration crisis is with
:07:44. > :07:47.-- is the lack of assertive engagement, not least from the US.
:07:48. > :07:54.What do you say to those people? You cannot have it both ways. You cannot
:07:55. > :08:01.say that that we do not do anything in Syria. Our parliaments will not
:08:02. > :08:07.ratify any actions in Syria. But we do want United States do something
:08:08. > :08:12.about it. One of the challenges during the course of the presidency
:08:13. > :08:17.is to encourage everyone to recognise that whether we like it or
:08:18. > :08:28.not, we are in an interconnected world. This relates to Brexit, Nato,
:08:29. > :08:34.the migration crisis. It relates to the bowler. It is a problem in the
:08:35. > :08:39.United States, as people have problems with immigration from
:08:40. > :08:43.places like Mexico. It would be tempting for a lot of people to
:08:44. > :08:47.believe that we can pull up the drawbridge, and we can carve a moat
:08:48. > :08:50.around ourselves, and not have to deal with problems around the world.
:08:51. > :08:52.President Obama speaking to me before he travelled on to Germany,
:08:53. > :08:55.and we'll have more from there in a moment.
:08:56. > :08:57.But there's been plenty of reaction to his comments,
:08:58. > :08:59.with many of those campiagning to leave the EU expressing
:09:00. > :09:01.anger and resentment at his intervention in the debate.
:09:02. > :09:03.Let's talk to our political correspondent Ben Wright
:09:04. > :09:07.We've had the biggest possible intervention from the President.
:09:08. > :09:17.How can the Leave campaign go forward now?
:09:18. > :09:24.It has clearly been a tough few days for the League campaign, and they
:09:25. > :09:28.are pleased that Air Force One has gone. But they have welcomed what
:09:29. > :09:34.some of what President Obama has said you. For instance, the security
:09:35. > :09:38.relationship would remain strong whatever the outcome of about. They
:09:39. > :09:42.also detect a softening on his tone on trade. He sounded more
:09:43. > :09:48.conciliatory. They do not believe at all that it will take ten years to
:09:49. > :09:50.get the deed deal between UK and the US. They have done deal is far
:09:51. > :09:55.quicker than that. They are confident that Britain would be able
:09:56. > :09:57.to get one. For his part, Nigel Farage says that the US president
:09:58. > :10:11.was scaremongering. It is coming out with the same
:10:12. > :10:16.rubbish that Britain is not good enough. Little countries like
:10:17. > :10:23.Switzerland do it on their own, and if Australia, with a population in
:10:24. > :10:28.relative terms, can convey all desperate conclude a deal in ten
:10:29. > :10:31.months, we can. He also said that the issues of border control would
:10:32. > :10:36.be crucial to voters in this referendum, and on that front,
:10:37. > :10:41.Theresa May, who was Britain to remain in the EU, concluded that
:10:42. > :10:47.free movement of people did make it hard for the UK to curb migration.
:10:48. > :10:53.Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, lead figures in the Leave campaign will
:10:54. > :10:57.launch new cut -- newspaper articles. We now know what the
:10:58. > :11:02.president of the US thinks about the referendum. His views have been made
:11:03. > :11:05.emphatically clear, and the promised will be delighted. The Leave
:11:06. > :11:11.campaign will try and hit back and move the campaign on.
:11:12. > :11:14.As we said, President Obama is now visiting Germany where he's been
:11:15. > :11:17.holding talks with Chancellor Merkel about a controversial trade deal
:11:18. > :11:21.they wanted to push ahead with the agreement, known as TTIP,
:11:22. > :11:23.despite opposition in parts of Europe and the US
:11:24. > :11:25.where there are claims the deal could drive down wages,
:11:26. > :11:32.weaken environmental protection and workers' labour rights.
:11:33. > :11:35.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is travelling with the President
:11:36. > :11:37.and is in the German city of Wolfsburg tonight.
:11:38. > :11:47.What chances this one between the EU and the US will come into being?
:11:48. > :11:53.Let's talk about the deal that is at the front of the queue, rather than
:11:54. > :11:57.the back, and that is the deal between Europe and the US. Barack
:11:58. > :12:01.Obama said tonight that there is every chance that the deal could be
:12:02. > :12:06.concluded by the end of this year. That will have taken roughly four
:12:07. > :12:10.years to complete. But he said that ratification will take a lot longer.
:12:11. > :12:16.And nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. These things
:12:17. > :12:27.are highly complex. He held a news conference a short time
:12:28. > :12:31.ago, and this time, it was purely about that controversial trade deal
:12:32. > :12:33.that he outlined. There was no mention of Britain and its
:12:34. > :12:35.relationship with the European Union. My sense of it is this.
:12:36. > :12:38.Barack Obama, who was very pleased that he has intervened in the
:12:39. > :12:41.debate, he knew it would cause controversy. But he will go back to
:12:42. > :12:46.America feeling pleased that he had done that. That said, I don't expect
:12:47. > :12:51.that we will hear much more from him on the subject. He has made his
:12:52. > :12:55.intervention, he has said what he wanted to say, and he will have to
:12:56. > :12:57.wait and see what the British people will have to say when they vote in
:12:58. > :13:03.late June. Let's have a look at some of the
:13:04. > :13:07.other news now. BBC News understands the retailer
:13:08. > :13:09.BHS could file for administration Sports Direct has been in talks
:13:10. > :13:15.to buy some of its 164 stores but a major obstacle has
:13:16. > :13:17.been the huge deficit Our business correspondent
:13:18. > :13:25.Joe Lynam has the story. BHS hasn't exactly been lighting up
:13:26. > :13:28.Britain's high street of late. Sharper and more nimble retailers
:13:29. > :13:33.have stolen a march. Despite getting a number
:13:34. > :13:36.of major rent reductions from its landlords last month,
:13:37. > :13:39.BHS has struggled to get other loans in place
:13:40. > :13:42.with which to rejuvenate the brand. So, 13 months after it was sold
:13:43. > :13:45.by the entrepreneur Sir Philip Green for ?1, BHS looks as if it
:13:46. > :13:49.could file for administration Problems at BHS didn't come
:13:50. > :13:55.as a surprise to these The problem with BHS is,
:13:56. > :14:00.who does it appeal to? It doesn't necessarily appeal
:14:01. > :14:02.to somebody of my age, We like the trousers in there,
:14:03. > :14:09.that's all I can say! I do know if it's
:14:10. > :14:11.moved with the times. That's a shame, because you always
:14:12. > :14:13.get really good customer British Home Stores opened its first
:14:14. > :14:17.shop in Brixton in 1928. In the 1980s it merged
:14:18. > :14:19.with Mothercare and Habitat And in 2000 Sir Philip Green paid
:14:20. > :14:26.?200 million for BHS. Within two years he had paid himself
:14:27. > :14:29.a dividend of ?164 million. But he wasn't able to turn
:14:30. > :14:33.the company around and sold it A year later the new owners haven't
:14:34. > :14:43.been able to secure the money to reinvent BHS, and may be forced
:14:44. > :14:47.to call in the administrators. And then there's the issue
:14:48. > :14:50.of the pension deficit - that's the difference
:14:51. > :14:52.between the money needed by BHS staff in retirement,
:14:53. > :14:55.and what's already been set aside, which currently stands
:14:56. > :14:59.at ?0.5 billion. They will probably paid
:15:00. > :15:01.by the government backed pension protection fund,
:15:02. > :15:03.but it does raise the issue of how the company was run,
:15:04. > :15:05.and whether they can find I think it is more than likely
:15:06. > :15:11.it won't be salvaged, and I think it will be the biggest
:15:12. > :15:14.collapse since Woolworths. It's a business that perhaps hasn't
:15:15. > :15:17.adapted to change in the retail sector as quick as it might have
:15:18. > :15:20.done, and every category that British Home Stores works in,
:15:21. > :15:23.has kind of been stolen You can buy furniture from other
:15:24. > :15:26.places, you can buy your school uniforms now from the supermarkets,
:15:27. > :15:29.and that's really had The retail business
:15:30. > :15:33.in Britain is tough. It doesn't respect well-known brands
:15:34. > :15:36.such as Woolworths or Comet. BHS may find new owners,
:15:37. > :15:38.but it might just as easily disappear entirely
:15:39. > :15:48.from our high streets. Three people have been arrested
:15:49. > :15:50.on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two men
:15:51. > :15:53.were found in a garden who was 52, and Matthew
:15:54. > :15:57.Higgins, who was 49, died Two women and a man are being
:15:58. > :16:01.held in police custody. A British man and two
:16:02. > :16:03.of his children have been killed in a motorway crash
:16:04. > :16:05.in eastern France. Their car hit a safety barrier
:16:06. > :16:07.near Dijon this morning. The man's wife and another
:16:08. > :16:17.child are in hospital. The Health Secretary,
:16:18. > :16:19.Jeremy Hunt, has rejected a plan which was meant to avert the junior
:16:20. > :16:22.doctors' strike in England The cross-party proposal -
:16:23. > :16:26.backed by the Royal College of Surgeons - would see
:16:27. > :16:28.new contracts tried at a limited number of hospitals,
:16:29. > :16:30.rather than being imposed A group of local authorities
:16:31. > :16:39.is warning that Government plans to compel all schools
:16:40. > :16:41.in England to become academies The County Councils Network,
:16:42. > :16:44.which represents 37 largely Conservative local authorities,
:16:45. > :16:47.says it could also prove poor Its chairman, Paul Carter, told
:16:48. > :16:50.the BBC that ministers should look Our education editor,
:16:51. > :17:00.Branwen Jeffreys, has more details. Ministers will be working even
:17:01. > :17:05.harder in the next few weeks, trying to overcome opposition
:17:06. > :17:09.to their academy plans. For the first time,
:17:10. > :17:13.county councils in England Most are Conservative-run but say
:17:14. > :17:18.these Government plans I think that most county councils
:17:19. > :17:25.across this country deliver exceedingly good support services
:17:26. > :17:28.and value for money to their schools and I have grave concern that
:17:29. > :17:33.what will replace local government's role will not be of the same
:17:34. > :17:37.standard and quality. At this Devon primary,
:17:38. > :17:41.it's a different story. It's part of one of the largest
:17:42. > :17:48.multi-academy trusts. In the space of just a few years
:17:49. > :17:51.this school has gone from being in special measures,
:17:52. > :17:53.to being rated as good, Of course, a lot of that is about
:17:54. > :18:01.what happens in the classroom, The debate, now, is about
:18:02. > :18:04.whether making all state schools academies is really the way
:18:05. > :18:07.to drive up standards. The boss of this chain
:18:08. > :18:13.of schools isn't sure, but then he's unusual,
:18:14. > :18:15.paid much less than others He thinks academies are a chance
:18:16. > :18:24.for teachers to try new ideas. Why don't we try this -
:18:25. > :18:28.why don't we try that? So I'm excited about what I don't
:18:29. > :18:32.know about the future, about the fact that we have
:18:33. > :18:34.unlocked potential, rather than we are delivering
:18:35. > :18:39.a preconceived model. But, now, 15,000 schools could be
:18:40. > :18:41.forced to become academies, he is worried about so much
:18:42. > :18:44.change, so quickly. The problem is, do we
:18:45. > :18:46.have the capacity to be Firstly, it is not
:18:47. > :18:49.a preconceived perfect model. The jury is out on what
:18:50. > :18:52.works and what doesn't So, can the Education Secretary
:18:53. > :19:08.persuade her critics it all adds up? This week she'll face
:19:09. > :19:09.questions from MPs. Nicky Morgan says the end result
:19:10. > :19:14.will be greater freedom for schools, a system that will step in faster
:19:15. > :19:20.where there is failure. Forcing the pace of change
:19:21. > :19:42.in schools has proved a tougher idea It has been very busy day of sport.
:19:43. > :19:44.The London Marathon, and some football.
:19:45. > :19:48.And Match of the Day 2, and Sportscene in Scotland,
:19:49. > :19:51.follow the news so please avert your attention if you don't
:19:52. > :19:54.Leicester City took another stride towards their first
:19:55. > :19:56.Premier League title by thrashing Swansea City 4-0.
:19:57. > :19:58.Leonardo Ulloa scoring twice, ably filling the boots of
:19:59. > :20:12.Leicester now have an eight-point lead with 3 games left.
:20:13. > :20:19.Another little step, because we know that the battle is very hard. We
:20:20. > :20:22.need five points more, and we need to be focused on the next match.
:20:23. > :20:24.In the day's other games, Sunderland are out the relegation
:20:25. > :20:27.There were wins for Inverness and Hamilton
:20:28. > :20:31.Crystal Palace have reached their first FA
:20:32. > :20:35.They beat Watford 2-1 to set-up a repeat of the 1990 final
:20:36. > :20:44.Our Reporter David Ornstein was at Wembley.
:20:45. > :20:52.Crystal Palace and Watford, days like these of rare. The journey to
:20:53. > :21:00.Wembley may be short, but there race for silverware has been long. They
:21:01. > :21:03.are flying in the cup, but Yannick Bolasie but Palace ahead. They won
:21:04. > :21:08.that aerial battle, the same could that aerial battle, the same could
:21:09. > :21:17.not be said of the next. Joel Ward almost gave them a route back. Troy
:21:18. > :21:21.Deeney lead by example. With the sky seemingly the best route to goal,
:21:22. > :21:26.Palace used it again. This time, Connor Wickham was the player to
:21:27. > :21:32.profit. So intent on defending their lead, Palace even began to tackle
:21:33. > :21:38.each other. And helped by at Watford's poor finishing, they were
:21:39. > :21:44.soon celebrating. Crystal Palace have never won the FA Cup. Thanks to
:21:45. > :21:46.this man, they have a chance to make history when they face Manchester
:21:47. > :21:50.United in the final next month. The London Marathon
:21:51. > :21:52.was won by Eliud Kipchoge The defending champion's
:21:53. > :21:55.Kenyan team mate, Jemima Our Correspondent
:21:56. > :22:01.Joe Wilson reports. The London Marathon
:22:02. > :22:03.is a great expression of mass achievement at a time of deep
:22:04. > :22:05.doubt in athletics. Kenya's Government has finally met
:22:06. > :22:07.anti-doping standards, hoping to be allowed to compete
:22:08. > :22:11.at the Olympics. There was nothing to doubt
:22:12. > :22:15.the integrity of their runners here. Eliud Kipchoge and Stanley Biwott
:22:16. > :22:18.pushed each other until Kipchoge So smooth, he wondered if he should
:22:19. > :22:25.have broken the world record. Jemima Sumgong, another Kenyan,
:22:26. > :22:36.showed extraordinary resilience to get to her feet and win the race,
:22:37. > :22:39.matching any feat of David Weir, in white sleeves,
:22:40. > :22:45.was trying again to win a record Marcel Hug of Switzerland
:22:46. > :22:49.broke the tape. If the Marathon demonstrates that
:22:50. > :23:10.distance is no barrier, For all competitors, the whole point
:23:11. > :23:13.of a marathon is to prove the distance is no barrier. This year,
:23:14. > :23:16.this race took that to extremes. on the International Space Station,
:23:17. > :23:19.strapped to a treadmill, Tim Peake was doing the 26 miles
:23:20. > :23:29.to finish exactly where he started. And while Leicester's football team
:23:30. > :23:32.are still on course for glory, there was heartbreak for the city's
:23:33. > :23:34.Rugby Union side who missed out on the final
:23:35. > :23:37.of the European Champions Cup, narrowly beaten by Racing 92
:23:38. > :23:52.despite a late comeback. Thank you very much. A quick
:23:53. > :23:56.reminder that there is more on all of today's stories on the BBC News
:23:57. > :23:59.Channel and online. That is all from us. Now it is time for the news
:24:00. > :24:00.where you are.