:00:00. > :00:07.Britain will now accept unaccompanied child refugees
:00:08. > :00:14.Thousands of children have made it to Europe without their parents -
:00:15. > :00:18.it's not yet clear how many will be allowed into the UK.
:00:19. > :00:21.We are going to do more for children who are already
:00:22. > :00:27.We've been to Calais to talk to some of the children surviving
:00:28. > :00:29.on their own in the camp known as The Jungle.
:00:30. > :00:31.We'll be asking what prompted the government's climbdown.
:00:32. > :00:35.Triumphant Trump as his last rival quits the Republican race -
:00:36. > :00:39.he's now the party's only candidate for the White House.
:00:40. > :00:44.Jailed - the fraudsters who conned pensioners out of a million pounds.
:00:45. > :00:52.A massive wildfire in Canada - an entire city's evacuated as flames
:00:53. > :01:04.Gareth Barrett is on-site and he has a lot to pick out and he doesn't
:01:05. > :01:05.need them! And a crucial match
:01:06. > :01:07.for Manchester City as they take on Real Madrid and battle
:01:08. > :01:12.it out for a place in Coming up in Sportsday
:01:13. > :01:12.on BBC News... Consequences
:01:13. > :01:14.for Chelsea and Tottenham. They are both charged after this
:01:15. > :01:17.brawl at their draw on Monday, which handed Leicester
:01:18. > :01:37.the league title. Britain is to open its doors
:01:38. > :01:43.to unaccompanied children who've fled the conflict in Syria and made
:01:44. > :01:45.it to Europe. The decision is a major shift
:01:46. > :01:48.in government policy. Until now, ministers had insisted
:01:49. > :01:51.that such a move would simply encourage more refugees
:01:52. > :01:55.to try to reach Europe. But David Cameorn has been under
:01:56. > :01:58.pressure to change his mind and was facing a Commons defeat
:01:59. > :02:01.on the issue next week. The government will now hold talks
:02:02. > :02:04.with councils to see how many Our political editor,
:02:05. > :02:10.Laura Kuenssberg, reports. If child refugees on their own make
:02:11. > :02:18.it to Europe's shores, The government has always said it's
:02:19. > :02:25.best if they never even make Help near their homes
:02:26. > :02:28.in the Middle East and Africa But for months he has rejected calls
:02:29. > :02:36.to take thousands of children We are already taking child migrants
:02:37. > :02:43.in Europe with a direct family connection to the UK
:02:44. > :02:46.and we will speed that up. I'm also talking to
:02:47. > :02:49.Save The Children to see what we can do more,
:02:50. > :02:52.particularly with children who came here before the EU-Turkey
:02:53. > :02:55.deal was signed. But that was a victory for those
:02:56. > :03:02.who have been pushing Labour, Tories, Lib Dems,
:03:03. > :03:08.campaigners, with refugees here in Greece today who even last
:03:09. > :03:11.week, with this blistering Stop with his attitude to lone child
:03:12. > :03:18.refugees, putting this house We think we help them by taking them
:03:19. > :03:24.from the refugee camps, taking them from Lebanon,
:03:25. > :03:26.taking them from Jordan, taking them when they
:03:27. > :03:30.come to this country. That what we're doing
:03:31. > :03:32.and we have a proud record Ministers already promised to take
:03:33. > :03:39.23,000 refugees from the region For the first time now the door
:03:40. > :03:45.will open to unaccompanied child refugees already in Greece,
:03:46. > :03:48.Italy and France who don't have Final details of the plans
:03:49. > :03:51.are still to be agreed In the long-term, no one
:03:52. > :03:56.in the nooks and crannies of Westminster can say how many
:03:57. > :03:59.children will come but in the short term, David Cameron has avoided
:04:00. > :04:02.a vote on the issue next week. In recent weeks MPs in here have
:04:03. > :04:07.been trying to persuade ministers Now today it is ministers
:04:08. > :04:14.trying to convince MPs I'm told that in the last 36 hours
:04:15. > :04:21.there have been five different versions of the plan but it
:04:22. > :04:25.seems that it's enough to stop the government
:04:26. > :04:28.being beaten next week. Like all these things,
:04:29. > :04:33.waiting to see the detail that follows after the local
:04:34. > :04:35.elections on Thursday. But as it stands, yes,
:04:36. > :04:37.we will be offering sanctuary to children refugees in Europe that
:04:38. > :04:40.came before the new Turkey deal. The councils that will have to find
:04:41. > :04:43.places for the children are under huge pressure to look after refugees
:04:44. > :04:46.who have already made The resources are not there yet
:04:47. > :04:51.to support those young people who have already made
:04:52. > :04:54.the journey to the UK, including very large numbers we have
:04:55. > :04:57.seen going into the care So we need to ensure
:04:58. > :05:01.that there is money so councils are not faced with a choice
:05:02. > :05:04.between closing libraries or funding care for vulnerable elderly people
:05:05. > :05:09.and supporting refugee children. Our Parliament is not just hundreds
:05:10. > :05:15.of miles from these scenes but a whole world away but power
:05:16. > :05:17.play in Westminster just might make a difference
:05:18. > :05:19.to some of what you see. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
:05:20. > :05:23.News, Westminster. Many of those child refugees find
:05:24. > :05:27.themselves on their own in the camp in Calais often
:05:28. > :05:30.referred to as The Jungle. Aid workers say that some are abused
:05:31. > :05:32.and exploited by traffickers. Our chief international
:05:33. > :05:38.correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has been talking to
:05:39. > :05:40.teenagers hoping to rebuild Hours after first light on a cold
:05:41. > :05:50.bleak morning in Calais. Boys straggle back to
:05:51. > :05:54.the shantytown to sleep. It has been another long night,
:05:55. > :05:56.another night of trying to make it to Britain,
:05:57. > :06:01.illegally, and failing. So it is another day in the squalid
:06:02. > :06:06.camp they call The Jungle. It is a hard life for grown-ups
:06:07. > :06:10.fleeing conflict and hardship. Imagine what it's like for
:06:11. > :06:14.children, on their own. But the Afghan boys at this centre
:06:15. > :06:25.say they will not stop until they reach family
:06:26. > :06:27.and a new future in Britain. TRANSLATION: Last night
:06:28. > :06:35.I jumped into a lorry. By the time they let me go
:06:36. > :06:43.it was midnight. I didn't know the way
:06:44. > :06:53.and was very scared. This shack is home for
:06:54. > :06:56.16-year-old Hassan. He fled Syria on his
:06:57. > :07:03.own six months ago. Today his older neighbour is making
:07:04. > :07:06.a window to let in sunlight, At night, when you are in your tent,
:07:07. > :07:19.what do you dream about? I dream, Hassan says,
:07:20. > :07:21.of getting to Britain to be Hassan is trying to get
:07:22. > :07:29.in through existing EU rules. He is being helped
:07:30. > :07:36.by a British charity. Are you worried it is going
:07:37. > :07:39.to create an incentive for more families to send children
:07:40. > :07:42.on these perilous journeys? We say that the British government
:07:43. > :07:45.has a moral and legal obligation I see and work with children every
:07:46. > :07:51.day who not only struggle under the pressures of living alone
:07:52. > :07:54.in a foreign continent, but who are also at risk of very
:07:55. > :07:57.real dangers with sexual exploitation on the one hand
:07:58. > :08:03.and human traffickers on the other. As we were leaving Calais,
:08:04. > :08:06.Hassan gets news. He can go to Britain
:08:07. > :08:09.and apply for asylum. The question now,
:08:10. > :08:12.how many will follow? Lyse Doucet, BBC News,
:08:13. > :08:16.Calais. Our political editor,
:08:17. > :08:24.Laura Kuenssberg, is in Westminster. The government has been under a lot
:08:25. > :08:31.of pressure for some time so why have they made this decision now?
:08:32. > :08:34.You are right, that clash between morality and political practicality
:08:35. > :08:38.has been running around this square mile since September at least with
:08:39. > :08:43.real concerns about sending out a message that would encourage more
:08:44. > :08:47.refugees and migrants to come to Britain, smashing up against the
:08:48. > :08:51.kind of personal stories we have just heard. As ever, what has
:08:52. > :08:55.changed is the politics. Opposition from the Scott Wheeldon -- Scottish
:08:56. > :09:01.National party, the Lib Dems and Labour and crucially some Tory
:09:02. > :09:03.rebels was amassing so much that it looked almost certain that the
:09:04. > :09:06.government would have been humiliated into making this
:09:07. > :09:12.climb-down at the beginning of next week. Hey presto, at a sensitive
:09:13. > :09:19.political time, the pie minister has had a change of heart. We are
:09:20. > :09:23.probably talking in the hundreds or perhaps one or 2000 child refugees
:09:24. > :09:29.on their own coming to the UK but, as with much of what we heard today,
:09:30. > :09:32.there is little detail set in stone. There is no guarantee on final
:09:33. > :09:37.numbers, no deadline has been set by when this has to happen. After the
:09:38. > :09:41.kind of intense campaigning on this issue we have seen recently, those
:09:42. > :09:46.are details that the government is going to have to get right to avoid
:09:47. > :09:48.further opposition. Laura Kuenssberg, thank you.
:09:49. > :09:51.Just a few months ago Donald Trump was seen as a no-hoper
:09:52. > :09:53.in the contest to become the Republican Party's candidate
:09:54. > :09:55.to run for President of the United States.
:09:56. > :09:58.Today - after his closest rival pulled out of the race -
:09:59. > :10:03.When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first
:10:04. > :10:06.nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House
:10:07. > :10:10.When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first
:10:11. > :10:13.nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House
:10:14. > :10:15.without having had any previous experience of elected office.
:10:16. > :10:17.Our North America correspondent, Nick Bryant, has more.
:10:18. > :10:19.When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency,
:10:20. > :10:26.When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first
:10:27. > :10:28.When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency,
:10:29. > :10:31.he was written off as a giant ego with a minuscule chance.
:10:32. > :10:33.But victory in Indiana has delivered the knockout blow,
:10:34. > :10:37.And he celebrated at Trump Tower, the New York skyscraper
:10:38. > :10:41.Never have been through anything like this, but it's a beautiful
:10:42. > :10:43.thing to watch and a beautiful thing to behold.
:10:44. > :10:44.Usually so boastful, usually so outspoken,
:10:45. > :10:47.the Trump who appeared last night was more restrained,
:10:48. > :10:51.more presidential, but his core message stayed the same.
:10:52. > :10:59.You will be so proud of this country very, very soon.
:11:00. > :11:08.His hostile takeover of the Republican Party is complete.
:11:09. > :11:13.Ted Cruz, an evangelical Christian, discovered this contest wasn't
:11:14. > :11:15.about faith, but fears about immigration and terrorism
:11:16. > :11:32.With a heavy heart, we are suspending our campaign.
:11:33. > :11:37.To understand Trump's extraordinary success,
:11:38. > :11:42.just visit rural Pennsylvania, a region once described as America's
:11:43. > :11:44.industrial heartland, that's come to be
:11:45. > :11:50.Closed steel mills now resemble archaeological sites,
:11:51. > :11:53.remnants of a bygone world, landmarks to the country's
:11:54. > :11:58.Five million blue-collar jobs have disappeared since the turn
:11:59. > :12:06.In its day, this was the Silicon Valley of the world.
:12:07. > :12:09.Bill used to work at this mill and witnessed how automation
:12:10. > :12:14.and foreign competition forced its closure.
:12:15. > :12:16.Everybody feels things are stacked against the working man.
:12:17. > :12:22.I came out of high school, you could get a job in the mill,
:12:23. > :12:24.make some good money, you could get some good benefits,
:12:25. > :12:28.you could raise your family and do pretty well.
:12:29. > :12:34.Jobs like that are hard to come by, if not impossible.
:12:35. > :12:37.Some mills remain operational, but for blue-collar workers,
:12:38. > :12:44.Of the 2.9 million good jobs since the recession,
:12:45. > :12:51.No wonder people like Dave Morgan feel they have been left behind.
:12:52. > :13:01.I mean, with no jobs to go to, it's a sad state of affairs.
:13:02. > :13:04.Once prosperous manufacturing towns have become places of decline
:13:05. > :13:08.and decay, as if wrecked by the whirlwind of globalisation.
:13:09. > :13:11.Many young people have left, communities have been officially
:13:12. > :13:20.Visiting these communities, it is obvious why so many people
:13:21. > :13:22.have lost faith in the American economic and political system
:13:23. > :13:24.and also the American dream, that great animating idea
:13:25. > :13:28.about opportunity and social mobility.
:13:29. > :13:31.It helps explain much of the anger, much of the alienation in this
:13:32. > :13:39.Donald Trump has given voice to the politics of decline.
:13:40. > :13:41.But it will surely take more than sloganeering,
:13:42. > :13:49.to carry him all the way to the White House.
:13:50. > :13:56.Despite pulling off one of the most extraordinary feats in American
:13:57. > :13:59.political history, the polls repeatedly suggest that Donald Trump
:14:00. > :14:04.is the most unpopular presidential candidate of modern times and what
:14:05. > :14:08.makes this election so intriguing is that the same polls show that the
:14:09. > :14:12.most unpopular Democratic presidential candidate of the last
:14:13. > :14:13.30 years is Hillary Clinton. It is going to be a blockbuster of a
:14:14. > :14:16.campaign. Eight men, who conned
:14:17. > :14:18.dozens of pensioners out of more than ?1 million,
:14:19. > :14:21.have been jailed for The gang posed as police officers
:14:22. > :14:24.and persuaded their victims to withdraw their cash
:14:25. > :14:26.and hand it over. Some of the money ended up
:14:27. > :14:29.being used by British men, thought to be linked to so-called
:14:30. > :14:31.Islamic State. Our home affairs correspondent,
:14:32. > :14:35.June Kelly, reports. The victims of this
:14:36. > :14:37.fraud lived in areas More than ?1 million was stolen
:14:38. > :14:44.from 140 pensioners. The gang would phone
:14:45. > :14:45.an elderly person... And, pretending to be police
:14:46. > :14:49.officers, tell them their bank They instructed their victims to go
:14:50. > :14:55.to their banks and move Hello there, I'm the courier,
:14:56. > :14:59.here to pick up. The pensioners then
:15:00. > :15:01.entrusted their savings In some cases, delivering the cash
:15:02. > :15:08.straight into their hands. One of the victims was
:15:09. > :15:12.Elizabeth Curtis, who is 73. She doesn't want her face shown
:15:13. > :15:15.but she does want to talk about what the scammers
:15:16. > :15:17.have done to her. She was robbed of her life
:15:18. > :15:21.savings of ?130,000. When I first learned that
:15:22. > :15:23.I was scammed, I thought, can I live with myself
:15:24. > :15:26.for having lost so much money? And the thought of suicide did pass
:15:27. > :15:28.through my mind. But then I realised
:15:29. > :15:39.it wasn't the answer. Today at the Old Bailey eight men
:15:40. > :15:48.have been sentenced for the fraud. One, Nathan Fagan-Gayle,
:15:49. > :15:51.was a former contestant He had ?20,000 of Elizabeth Curtis's
:15:52. > :15:59.money and went on a spending spree. Others, like the gang leader,
:16:00. > :16:02.Makhzumi Abukar, have links to individuals who have
:16:03. > :16:07.left the UK for Syria. More than half of Elizabeth Curtis's
:16:08. > :16:12.money went into the accounts of two men, Ahmed Ali
:16:13. > :16:14.and Abraham Ghebrezadik, Ghebrezadik's Muslim name recently
:16:15. > :16:20.featured on a membership list The police investigation
:16:21. > :16:25.was led by counterterrorism Some of that money has been used
:16:26. > :16:30.to facilitate travel to some individuals who have gone
:16:31. > :16:32.out to Syria. But the rest of that money has
:16:33. > :16:35.disappeared and that is part of the challenge in not just tracing
:16:36. > :16:38.the money but trying to get There is no evidence that
:16:39. > :16:44.Elizabeth Curtis's savings were used by IS but she is anxious
:16:45. > :16:47.that they might have been. I was very upset to think that my
:16:48. > :16:53.money was being used for terrorism. That is something I have got
:16:54. > :16:58.to live with. The terrorists training
:16:59. > :17:04.and coming back to Europe, blowing people up and that
:17:05. > :17:06.sort of thing, killing The banks have reimbursed
:17:07. > :17:12.about a third of what Like the other victims, she is now
:17:13. > :17:16.fighting to try to recover The European Commission has formally
:17:17. > :17:26.recommended that most EU governments ease some visa requirements
:17:27. > :17:29.for travellers from Turkey - a country with nearly
:17:30. > :17:33.79 million people. The proposal, which relies on Ankara
:17:34. > :17:37.implementing a series of reforms and improving human rights,
:17:38. > :17:40.is part of a controversial deal which has cut the number
:17:41. > :17:43.of migrants coming to Europe. EU leaders are still
:17:44. > :17:45.to give their backing to the visa relaxation,
:17:46. > :17:47.which could come into force The United States says an agreement
:17:48. > :17:53.has been reached with Russia to extend the truce in Syria
:17:54. > :17:58.to include the embattled The State Department said
:17:59. > :18:02.the agreement went into effect at midnight local time,
:18:03. > :18:04.and already there has been a marked Our World Affairs Editor,
:18:05. > :18:08.John Simpson, joins airbase near Latakia
:18:09. > :18:23.in the north of Syria. Is this going to bring peace to
:18:24. > :18:28.Aleppo? Well, there's a chance that it will bring peace for 48 hours.
:18:29. > :18:33.And maybe beyond that. Let's hope so. But really I think this is
:18:34. > :18:39.mostly because the Americans and the Russians felt it was impossible to
:18:40. > :18:49.carry on with things like those dreadful attacks on hospitals that
:18:50. > :18:55.we saw in Aleppo. But that city is a kind of trapped nerve of American
:18:56. > :19:00.and Russian relations. It is the place, in the whole world, where
:19:01. > :19:04.they are most in conflict because the Russians support President
:19:05. > :19:11.al-Assad in his attempt to recapture the whole city, and the Americans
:19:12. > :19:14.support the rebels there. And so there's this very bitter
:19:15. > :19:19.relationship between them. At the same time, you have to remember that
:19:20. > :19:25.the American and Russian relationship is a global one and
:19:26. > :19:29.they have to get on to a slightly better relationship. I think this is
:19:30. > :19:35.the one place where it can happen. But, you know, we are not looking at
:19:36. > :19:40.a solution to what's happening in Aleppo, we are just looking at
:19:41. > :19:46.putting it in the freezer for, well, two days, three days, or whatever,
:19:47. > :19:52.and in the longer term, nothing can be sorted out until either President
:19:53. > :19:57.al-Assad wins, which is more likely, or the rebels win, which is, I have
:19:58. > :20:03.to say, less likely. John Simpson, thank you.
:20:04. > :20:04.On the border between Gaza and Israel, there's been the worst
:20:05. > :20:06.outbreak of violence since the summer war two years ago.
:20:07. > :20:08.Israel has been using tanks and airstrikes.
:20:09. > :20:10.Militants in Gaza have responded with mortar fire.
:20:11. > :20:13.Since last October, there's been a wave of violent Palestinian
:20:14. > :20:16.attacks on Israeli citizens - including stabbings and bombs.
:20:17. > :20:24.Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Jerusalem.
:20:25. > :20:29.This is a training exercise, based on a real incident.
:20:30. > :20:34.Israelis in the occupied West Bank were ambushed by Palestinians.
:20:35. > :20:45.These are Israeli self-defence experts.
:20:46. > :20:48.They believe that a second's hesitation before fighting
:20:49. > :21:00.After each attack, more and more Israelis ask them for lessons.
:21:01. > :21:05.For Israelis, old nightmares seem to be returning, especially
:21:06. > :21:10.when a bus was blown up in Jerusalem last month.
:21:11. > :21:13.Since the attack, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl, Eden Dadon,
:21:14. > :21:16.has been treated here for severe burns.
:21:17. > :21:22.She waited with her elder daughter as doctors woke Eden
:21:23. > :21:29.TRANSLATION: Not only did I have to save myself,
:21:30. > :21:35.I had to do it at the speed of light, even though
:21:36. > :21:48.Do you think you can live peacefully with the Palestinians?
:21:49. > :21:50.As far as I can see, living with them in peace
:21:51. > :21:58.What's been happening shows that they don't want peace.
:21:59. > :22:02.The bus bomber, Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, died
:22:03. > :22:10.His family in Bethlehem have a long record of opposition,
:22:11. > :22:19.But not angry enough to want to kill.
:22:20. > :22:22.He think that they are our occupation, they took
:22:23. > :22:30.They always do many things to make us angry.
:22:31. > :22:40.We know every people want to take a freedom,
:22:41. > :22:52.In 1967, Israel captured the old city of Jerusalem
:22:53. > :23:00.and the other territories the Palestinians now want for a state.
:23:01. > :23:06.For almost 50 years, the consequences of the 1967 war
:23:07. > :23:15.Palestinians say violence from their side is a reaction
:23:16. > :23:21.The Israeli government says the real problem is that Palestinians
:23:22. > :23:28.Now, what's concerning for the future about the current violence
:23:29. > :23:35.On both sides of the wall, there's cynicism at best,
:23:36. > :23:43.Eventually, the two sides have a choice -
:23:44. > :23:45.perpetual conflict, or they will have to sit down
:23:46. > :23:53.Closest to perpetual conflict is Hebron, holy to Muslims
:23:54. > :23:59.and Jews, home to more than 150,000 Palestinians.
:24:00. > :24:05.The Israeli Army protects around 800 Jewish settlers in the city centre.
:24:06. > :24:08.Palestinians are banned from so-called sterile roads
:24:09. > :24:14.Thousands of them have been forced to abandon homes and businesses.
:24:15. > :24:17.Achiya Schatz served here in an Israeli undercover
:24:18. > :24:22.Now he campaigns against the occupation.
:24:23. > :24:24.We need to understand that if we do want to have settlers living here,
:24:25. > :24:27.it's going to be costing us lives of soldiers,
:24:28. > :24:30.it's going to be costing us money, it will cost us moral standards
:24:31. > :24:34.because you need to have this kind of road clear.
:24:35. > :24:43.We took their life, their jobs, their ability to live in dignity.
:24:44. > :24:46.There are no peace talks, no real hope, and that means
:24:47. > :24:53.When that happens, the result is always more bloodshed.
:24:54. > :25:02.Huge wildfires are sweeping across the Canadian
:25:03. > :25:08.An entire city has been evacuated - forcing almost 90 thousand people
:25:09. > :25:12.Officials say whole neighbourhoods have been destroyed.
:25:13. > :25:15.Our North America Correspondent James Cook is in the province that
:25:16. > :25:23.has seen the biggest evacuation in its history.
:25:24. > :25:33.Tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in minutes.
:25:34. > :25:36.Behind them, Fort McMurray, a ghostly sight, covered in smoke,
:25:37. > :25:45.The fire jumped the river and we had basically two minutes to get home,
:25:46. > :25:51.They didn't even let us take our things when we asked them,
:25:52. > :25:57.Reports from the city are sketchy, rumours are rife.
:25:58. > :26:00.But there has been significant damage.
:26:01. > :26:02.In one neighbourhood, four out of every five homes
:26:03. > :26:09.Even those hardened to tragedy are finding this tough.
:26:10. > :26:11.It's been the worst day of my career.
:26:12. > :26:24.The community's going to be devastated.
:26:25. > :26:26.This is going to go on, this is going to take us
:26:27. > :26:40.As they ran, some residents filmed, documenting their escape
:26:41. > :26:45.The blaze, burning since Sunday, had looked to be coming under control
:26:46. > :26:53.The flames leapt roads, complicating the evacuation.
:26:54. > :26:58.Fort McMurray, being evacuated, has been extremely difficult, not
:26:59. > :27:03.just for the province and officials, but for the folks who live there.
:27:04. > :27:06.And with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds,
:27:07. > :27:10.the danger is far from over in this city of fire.
:27:11. > :27:16.James Cook, BBC News, Alberta Province, in Canada.
:27:17. > :27:18.Tomorrow, millions of people across the UK will be
:27:19. > :27:23.Not only in the Scottish Parliament, and the devolved assemblies in Wales
:27:24. > :27:26.and Northern Ireland, but also in the local council
:27:27. > :27:29.and mayoral elections in London and other cities.
:27:30. > :27:34.Here's Jeremy Vine with a look at the political landscape.
:27:35. > :27:36.Let us look first at the lay of the land, those 124 English
:27:37. > :27:40.councils where councillors are being elected on Thursday.
:27:41. > :27:44.We might point out for example Exeter, Labour red,
:27:45. > :27:48.they are in control, way outside their natural territory,
:27:49. > :27:51.And also here, Castle Point in Essex, it's Ukip
:27:52. > :27:55.versus the Conservatives, a fascinating battle.
:27:56. > :27:57.Plus this splodge of Liberal Democrat orange,
:27:58. > :28:07.Let's go back to 2008 and have a look at the total number
:28:08. > :28:12.And you see here the Conservatives, almost double the number
:28:13. > :28:16.But Labour then start to recover and it is the Lib Dems
:28:17. > :28:19.being punished, it seems, for the Coalition Government until,
:28:20. > :28:21.by the end of our graph, almost to the present day,
:28:22. > :28:25.here we have Labour, almost equal with the Conservatives
:28:26. > :28:31.But the percentages tell a more complicated story.
:28:32. > :28:36.Have a look at this terrible result for Gordon Brown's party, in third
:28:37. > :28:42.But there was then a kind of recovery under Ed Miliband.
:28:43. > :28:46.2012 was the last year these council seats were fought and
:28:47. > :28:53.They will have to do as well as 38% just not to lose seats on Thursday.
:28:54. > :28:56.Similarly, the Conservatives only have to improve on 31%
:28:57. > :29:01.Come to the end of the graph, and we see the General Election year.
:29:02. > :29:07.They're ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 13%.
:29:08. > :29:10.It is not just about councillors on Thursday,
:29:11. > :29:14.Let's have a look at the four Mayoral contests in England.
:29:15. > :29:20.We have Salford, Liverpool, Bristol and the capital
:29:21. > :29:24.This was the map in 2012 when Boris Johnson was elected Mayor
:29:25. > :29:31.Sadiq Khan, for Labour, stands a great chance of winning.
:29:32. > :29:33.If he wins in London, will that offset Labour
:29:34. > :29:39.And there's more about all tomorrow's elections -
:29:40. > :29:41.including Jeremy Vine's look at the Scottish Parliament
:29:42. > :29:43.and devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland -
:29:44. > :29:52.The Duchess of Cambridge came face to face with herself
:29:53. > :29:55.tonight when she visited an exhibition in London.
:29:56. > :29:57.She was there to see two portraits of herself,
:29:58. > :30:01.taken by the British photographer, Josh Olins.
:30:02. > :30:04.The photos are part of an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Vogue.
:30:05. > :30:07.They're now on public view in the National Portrait Gallery,
:30:08. > :30:12.where Kate has been a patron since 2012.
:30:13. > :30:14.Football, and it's been a big night for Manchester City in the second
:30:15. > :30:17.leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid -
:30:18. > :30:21.the team that's won more European Cups than any other.
:30:22. > :30:28.Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson is in Madrid.
:30:29. > :30:37.Think of all that investment from Abu Dhabi, the manoeuvring through
:30:38. > :30:40.financial fairplay, the effort, the recruitment, what's it all for for
:30:41. > :30:45.Manchester City? Exactly for this, a noisy night in Madrid with so much
:30:46. > :30:49.at stake. This opportunity, these opponents. The sad thing for
:30:50. > :30:53.Manchester City is, they didn't really do themselves justice here
:30:54. > :30:55.tonight. At the end of the day, at the end of the evening, all they
:30:56. > :30:59.needed was a goal. There is only one place
:31:00. > :31:00.where they measure their European It is part of the marketing
:31:01. > :31:06.at Real Madrid. Come here and you are
:31:07. > :31:10.taking on the best. But if it is a journey you are
:31:11. > :31:14.after, think City, Manchester. Many fans here watched them play
:31:15. > :31:17.in the third tier of I have been asleep
:31:18. > :31:29.for 15 years, mate! After tonight, it will be
:31:30. > :31:38.the ultimate dream. Inside the first ten minutes,
:31:39. > :31:41.Manchester City in luminous kit, Vincent Kompany in agony and unable
:31:42. > :31:48.to go on. Gareth Bale couldn't score
:31:49. > :31:53.from there, could he? Still, on the away goals rule,
:31:54. > :32:02.a score draw would send Bale came close again and now
:32:03. > :32:15.Ronaldo - who do you think you are, The clock ticking to
:32:16. > :32:23.88 minutes and still The end of this City dream and,
:32:24. > :32:30.for the manager, two more games So it seems Mr Trump
:32:31. > :32:43.is the Republican candidate. Can he unify his party
:32:44. > :32:47.and can he win? Join me now on BBC Two,
:32:48. > :32:49.11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time
:32:50. > :32:55.for the news where you are.