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At least 28 people are said to have been killed after an air strike hit | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
a crowded refugee camp in rebel-held Northern Syria. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Images of the aftermath show burning tents in the camp which is home | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
to up to 2000 displaced Syrians - it's not clear who's responsible. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
These individuals are in the most desperate situation imaginable | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
and there's no justification for carrying out military action | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
A stark contrast in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra - | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
where Russian musicians played to celebrate its liberation | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
We'll have the latest developments from Syria. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
A possible breakthrough - talks may begin next week | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
to try to resolve the bitter dispute over a new contract | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
More than 300 square miles now ablaze in Western Canada - | :00:50. | :01:02. | |
as one of the largest evacuations for decades continues. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The Hillsborough disaster - a former press officer | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
for South Yorkshire Police says she felt their strategy | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
at the inquests was to blame others, including the fans. | :01:13. | :01:25. | |
Liverpool make it through to the Europa League Final. | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: An inspiration | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
for the whole world - the vice chairman of Leicester City | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
tells the BBC he never thought they would win the Premier League. | :01:41. | :01:56. | |
Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in an air strike | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Some reports say the attack was by Syrian or Russian warplanes, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
The air strike happened at Kamouna camp near Sarmada in Idlib province, | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Here's our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet. | :02:12. | :02:25. | |
The camp where Syrians took refuge from the war. Today, the war found | :02:26. | :02:37. | |
them again. Firemen frantically tried to douse the flames. There is | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
little left to save. Two air strikes obliterated this tented settlement. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Shattered lives in this rebel held area close to the Turkish border. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Women and children, who fled here for safety, now buried beneath their | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
blackened tents. Anger burns here as well. Look, look, this man cries. | :03:05. | :03:20. | |
All women and children here. What did the children do? Where is Islam? | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Where is the world? He curses resident Assad and his allies in | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
Lebanon and Iran. In Washington, the White House said it was too early to | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
say who did this, but was quick to condemn. There is no justifiable | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
excuse for carrying out an air against innocent civilians, who have | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
already once fled their homes to escape violence. These individuals | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
are in the most desperate situation imaginable and there is no | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
justification for carrying out military action that is targeting | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
them. Today, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo there was some hope, | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
a ceasefire was slowly being re-established. People venture into | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
the markets. In recent weeks, this divided city source of its worst | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
fighting years. Nothing spared by warring sides. A market, a hospital | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
and clinics hit. The violence was easing. But now it's shattered in a | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
makeshift camp for displaced Syrians, another war crime in a | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
country of monstrous violence. Lyse Doucet, BBC News. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
There was a stark contrast in the ancient Syrian | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Less than two months ago Syrian ground forces drove so-called | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Islamic State out of the city with the help of | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
This afternoon in Palmyra's Roman amphitheatre - which until recently | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
was used by so called for IS for executions - | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Russian musicians performed a concert in the ancient ruins | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Our world affairs editor John Simpson was there | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
The centrepiece of this whole extraordinary business, | :05:09. | :05:21. | |
kept secret until this morning, turned out to be a concert | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
by the world-famous orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre from St | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
They were performing in the equally famous | :05:29. | :05:46. | |
world-famous Theatre of Palmyra, which avoided Islamic | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
But it was stained with blood all the same. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
25 Syrian soldiers were executed here by a squad of young boys, | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
On the stage was a picture of Khaled al-Asaad, the 81-year-old scholar | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
who, despite IS torture, refused to tell them | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
where the antiquities had been hidden. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Thanks to Russia's powerful help for the Syrian army, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
those days are over in Palmyra and President Putin's milking | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
He unexpectedly popped up live from Moscow, praising the Russian | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
And in the orchestra, playing the cello, was his good | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
friend Sergei Roldugin, mentioned prominently in the recent | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Panama papers, about money held outside the country. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
That was a pretty short concert, not surprising perhaps | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
If it weren't for the Russians, this beautiful place would still be | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
under the control of Islamic State and they might well be using it | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
All the same, there's bound to be criticism that the Russians have | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
been using this for their own propaganda purposes. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
It has been a small group of Syrian soldiers here, a larger group | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
of Syrian civilians, but the largest number | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
in the audience were Russian soldiers. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
So this was a Russian triumph in a Russian city, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
and afterwards it seemed clear why the whole thing had been | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
From the early morning, when the orchestra and the foreign | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
journalists made the five-hour journey by road from the coast, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
the escort of Russian armoured vehicles and Russian helicopters | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
The extraordinary scenes there in Palmyra. There's an air strike on a | :07:47. | :08:08. | |
refugee camp in northern Syria, surreal contrast, five years into | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
this conflict? This is Syria five years on. It's truly surreal. This | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
is emblematic of a country torn by conflict, Weibo have this moment of | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
artistic and political triumph in Palmyra, and not so far away | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
devastating attack on a refugee camp and tragically some of the people | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
who had lived in that camp had fled Palmyra, had fled Aleppo, fleeing to | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
safety only to be caught up again in this punishing war. It is also a war | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
which has savagely divided the country into a dizzying array of | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
groups, who are either fighting against each other or amongst each | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
other and of course a war which draws in all of the original eye -- | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
allies and goes right up to the United States and Russia. What today | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
also reminds us if this is a war which is being written with daily | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
war crimes. Even war has rules and they are being violated day in, day | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
out. It's a war crime to have targeted that camp. The hospital | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
that was targeted recently in Aleppo, the markets, these are | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
attacks on innocent civilians, on the infrastructure that is left and | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
for this region that has been a major international effort going | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
right up to Vladimir Putin is -- Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
restore the ceasefire but this attack today will harden the | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
suspicion of people that it simply won't hold. Lyse Doucet, thank you. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Talks look set to resume next week to try to resolve a bitter dispute | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
over a new contract for junior doctors in England. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
The government and the doctors' union, the British Medical | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Association, have agreed - in theory - to five days | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
of negotiations, during which plans to impose the contract | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and the threat of industrial action will be put on hold. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
If the talks go ahead, it will be the first time the two sides | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
It's been a long and bitter dispute with junior doctors | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
staging strikes in England, and both sides far apart. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Whatever their differences with me, whatever their differences | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
with the Government, think about patients. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
But now, after a plan put forward by leaders | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
of medical royal colleges, there is the prospect of talks. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
We are willing to do what it takes to settle this very, | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
very difficult dispute but we are absolutely clear | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
that we have a manifesto commitment to deliver a seven-day NHS. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
That was a very different tone from earlier in the day, | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
when the Government said it was too late to change the process | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
of bringing in a new employment contract. | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
Ministers, it seems, looked again at the talks proposal | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Until now, the Government has said it is committed | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
The BMA said that wasn't acceptable and was threatening more strikes. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Under the new plan, both sides would pause their action for five | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
The Government wants these to focus on unsocial hours payments | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
The BMA wants to include wider working conditions and see | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
There are so many issues in the contract that need resolving. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
The important thing is to try and get round the table and talk. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
The Government refused to talk since February and we have | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
continually said solutions need to be found. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
After thousands of cancelled operations because of the strikes, | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
NHS managers around England are highly relieved there is now | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
the prospect of negotiations which could lead to a settlement. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Junior doctors continuing their protest at the Department of Health | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
We were all feeling very frustrated about the impasse. | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
This is a really positive development. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
I think it creates a safe space for the right conversations | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
to happen that might get us out of this dispute. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
How confident are you that it can be resolved over these five days? | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
One source close to the process made clear it was not a done deal that | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
talks would definitely begin on Monday. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Work has to be done on the precise agenda and exactly what the scope | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
That said, there is a feeling tonight that the chances of finding | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
a way out of this dispute are better than they were. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
A former South Yorkshire Police press officer says she was asked | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
to work as a spin doctor during the recent | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Hayley Court claims that she was expected to persuade | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
journalists to put the force in a better light - | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
and says the police strategy was to blame others, | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
Our correspondent Judith Moritz reports. | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Hillsborough continues to haunt South Yorkshire Police. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
The force apologised publicly before the recent inquests | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
into the disaster began but tonight there are new claims that it | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
tried to twist the truth during the hearings, | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Hayley Court was paid a salary of more than ?50,000 to advise | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
South Yorkshire Police on its communications, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
but she says she was expected to work as a spin doctor, | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
After the fourth time of being told that I was to get the media together | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
and effectively tell them what to write, I felt not only did | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
I have a completely impossible job but it was so wholly unethical | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
I couldn't be part of it any more and I just felt trapped. | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
It seemed to me it was more about how we could share the blame. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
If South Yorkshire Police was going to be found partly | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
responsible for what happened, then all the other interested | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
parties should be found partly responsible as well, | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
and if that meant perpetuating the comments about fans being drunk, | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
if that meant perpetuating comments about fans forcing gates, then | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
The conduct of South Yorkshire Police during the inquests has | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
It led to the suspension of the Chief Constable, | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
David Crompton, who was blamed for an erosion of trust. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
We asked South Yorkshire Police a series of questions | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
about Hayley Court's claims, including whether she was employed | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
to spin lines coming out of the inquests. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
They didn't specifically answer that point but they did say, | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
when she'd raised concerns about suggested unethical | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
practices, they hadn't been substantiated at the time. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
If you described a new fact every day about Hillsborough... | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Julie Fallon lost her brother, Andrew Sefton, at Hillsborough. | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
She says she's unsurprised by the new claims. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
The police had apologised previously and that apology was supposed | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
to underpin the further movement of the inquests. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
That was supposed to be how we were moving forward, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
and now, of course, this kind of explains a lot of the stance that | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
actually was felt in the court by the families. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
There has also been criticism from within the police community. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Perhaps now is a great opportunity for policing | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
to step forward, to say, yes, people can talk out | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
against the police, people can talk out about their organisation, | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
they will be listened to and, as a consequence, | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
Some of the Hillsborough families are going to meet the Home Secretary | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
to talk about South Yorkshire Police. | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
They say they want assurances that, in future, public bodies will act | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
A British registered car - driven by suspected people smugglers - | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
crashed on a motorway in northern France this morning whilst | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
Shots were fired and four people in the car were seriously injured. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, says he's | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
resigning, after disagreeing with the country's powerful | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Mr Davutoglu had wavered in his support for the president's | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
move to boost his powers by changing the constitution. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
BBC News understands the Ministry of Justice is to take over | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
a troubled young offenders' unit in Kent, which has been | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
at the centre of serious allegations that staff assaulted children. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Ministers commissioned an independent investigation | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
into the Medway centre, which is run by the private company, | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
G4S, after undercover filming by the BBC's Panorama programme. | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
Wildfires are continuing to spread in western Canada, where almost | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
90,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
The fires, which have been burning for three days now, | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
have engulfed an area of more than 300 square miles | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
The city of Fort McMurray has been abandoned - a number | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
of neighbourhoods have been razed to the ground. | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
More than 1,000 fire fighters are desperately trying to get | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
James Cook is following events just south of the city, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
In the car, a mother, father and child are | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
The people of Fort McMurray had just minutes to abandon | :17:05. | :17:16. | |
For most residents this was the only road out - | :17:17. | :17:31. | |
When you consider what needed to be done to convince people to get | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
in their vehicles and start driving south, and then of course | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
the absolutely understandable stress that would occur when you get | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
on the road and find that you can't move, | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
I mean these are scary stories and everyone would be scared | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
But I think the public officials and emergency responders have | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
It was a sudden change in the wind which swept the huge | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
I looked up and basically it's raining ash you know your eyes | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
are burning, you know it's time to pack up and leave. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
As the city smoulders the full extent of the damage | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
The fire started in the forest outside the city. | :18:21. | :18:32. | |
How is not clear but it is still burning, spreading south, | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
forcing the evacuation of more towns. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
You don't know what's burned and not burned, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Now you're sitting here and all you see is red flames. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
As we headed south more helicopters flew in to join | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
And this fire is still far from over. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
You can see just to the right of this white car here a black plume | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
of smoke and an ambulance just moving up the road here, | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
as police advise the media and everyone else in this area | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
to get out, because the blaze is moving towards us. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
This fire is now covering more than 300 square miles and behind it | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
James Cook, BBC News, outside Fort McMurray. | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
Polls have just closed in elections across the UK, | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
with voters taking part in the largest test of political | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
opinion since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Elections have been held for the Scottish Parliament, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
the devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, and more | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Police and Crime Commissioners are also being elected | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
in England and Wales, and four cities have held mayoral | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Jeremy Vine is in the BBC's Election Night studio for us | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
tonight, with this assessment of what to watch out | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
Thank you. An absolute torrent of information coming our way. Some | :19:57. | :20:10. | |
quite simple questions to ask. We start with the Welsh assembly. Can | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Labour continue their domination of Wales through these strongholds in | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
the south areas around Swansea and Cardiff? Who comes second, the | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Conservatives or Plaid Cymru? Do Ukip get their first seat in the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Welsh assembly? To Scotland, and the result in 2011. It was a storming | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
victory for the SNP, 69 seats, an overall majority, covering the map | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
in yellow. Labour a distant second. Now there is the question of whether | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
they could be pushed into third place, and maybe the SNP's yellow | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
starts to push back every bit of Labour red until there is nothing | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
left. Their mayoral elections. Overnight, we think we will get a | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
result from Liverpool. There is also an election for a mayor in Salford, | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Bristol and London. The London mayor is the person with the single | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
biggest direct vote in British politics, so that is a crucial | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
contest. Maybe if Labour win in London, it might offset losses | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
elsewhere. There are 124 councils up for grabs. Councillors are being | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
elected up and down the country. Let's look at yourself. Labour, | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
places like Exeter, which they hold. This bit of red is Southampton, just | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
next to Eastleigh on the south coast. Hastings and Stevenage and | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
hollow. In order to have a hope in 2011 at the general election, Labour | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
need to be spreading their influence in the south. -- a hope in 2020. And | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
to see if the Conservatives start to be punished for their row over the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
European referendum. Let's go back to 2008 and see what happened. This | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
gives some context. Gordon Brown was Labour leader. He came third behind | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
the Liberal Democrats. It was a terrible result for them. In 2012, | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Ed Miliband got 38% of the vote, a good result for Labour, and it is | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
important because 2012 was the last year in which the council seats we | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
are looking at night were contested, so Labour have to do as well as that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
again. Come to the end of the graft and you will see the picture in the | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
general election, the Conservatives leading Labour and Ukip in third. We | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
wait to see if that was the lay of the land after these results. Lots | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
of stories, lots of elections, but some simple questions. | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
In a moment, we'll speak to our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
First, we can hear from our teams in Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast, | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
starting with our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith. | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
I am at the stadium where they are about to start counting the Glasgow | :22:48. | :23:00. | |
constituencies and where Labour are very nervous about what could be a | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
very bad night for them across Scotland. They know they will lose | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
some seats, but how many, and could they be pushed into third place by | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
the Tories? That might be unlikely but the fact we are even talking | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
about it shows how dire things are for Labour in Scotland. By contrast, | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
the SNP are pretty confident they will be returned to government but | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
they have been riding so high in the polls that they are a bit anxious | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
their supporters might take a victory for granted and haven't | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
voted or given their support to other yes parties like the Greens. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Now to Cardiff. The expectation is that, by tomorrow, Labour will again | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
be the largest party in the National Assembly at Cardiff. The real | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
question is how low they will go. Five years ago, they took 30 of 60 | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
seats. This time, that could go down to 27, 26, which would mean they | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
will have to start doing deals with their opponents to get policies | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
through. Plaid Cymru are vying with the Welsh Tories to be the | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
second-largest party. The Lib Dems are fighting for survival. Maybe | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
just one or two seats. Ukip are insurgent party, going from zero to | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
maybe as many as eight, giving them an official power within the UK | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
electoral system. What about Northern Ireland? WAGs account here | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
doesn't begin until tomorrow morning. The count here. It is | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
likely to be until Saturday before we know what the count looks like. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Most people are not predicting big changes. They expect the UUP to be | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
the biggest party and Sinn Fein to be second. What is perhaps more | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
intriguing is what happens after all 108 MLAs are elected. -- they expect | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
the DUP to be the biggest party. At that point, they are expected to | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
agree a programme of government in the next two weeks. That will be a | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
challenge because in many cases they don't agree on key issues. It is | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
only a matter of months since Stormont itself and the future of | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
our shaking -- power-sharing looked shaky, so these parties have to work | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
together to prove they can work together. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
Our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is in the BBC | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
An interesting night the head and a lot at stake. Certainly, it is | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
almost like an a to Z of elections, almost every kind you can think of. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
A complicated set of results, but they matter because we are all being | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
asked one simple question, to give our verdicts on the big political | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
parties and the government and to pass judgment on how they have been | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
doing since the general election last year. Of course, voters in | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
every corner of the country will have been choosing their decisions | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
on all sorts of different local, regional and national factors, but | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
the big picture matters. Tonight, the Conservatives are pretty relaxed | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
about the effect of results we are expecting. Frankly, they are more | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
focused on the European referendum that is coming in less than two | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
months. The real nerves tonight are at the Labour Party headquarters. | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
This is a huge moment for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. The nine months | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
of it which have seen such turmoil. It is the first time that the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
general public, rather than the Labour Party membership itself, is | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
being asked to give their opinion on the party under his leadership. It | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
has been difficult since he has been in charge. They are confident | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
tonight they will be able to take London City Hall from the | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Conservatives, but elsewhere around the country, whether in Scotland or | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
in the local elections in England, from talking to people who have been | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
out on the stump, talking to voters on the doorstep, trying to get them | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
to choose Labour, it sounds like it might be a great night for them, at | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
a time when Mr Corbyn's leadership is already under real pressure. | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
We'll have full coverage as the results come | :27:05. | :27:05. | |
in from across the UK here on BBC News. | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
have a special programme on BBC One as the votes are counted, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
and there'll be more reaction and analysis on the BBC News Channel | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
The former boss of the department store BHS, | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
a stinging letter to the chairs of two parliamentary committees, | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
criticising them for public attacks on him and his reputation. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
-- he says he wants to correct misleading reports over what | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
happened. BHS went into administration last | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
Monday, with a black hole in its pension fund | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
of over ?500 million. With me now is our Business | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
Editor, Simon Jack. He made his comments in a letter to | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
the chairs of two Parliamentary committees. You react very angrily | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
to comments by Frank Field, who says he should be stripped of his | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
knighthood unless he plugged the pension gap. Frank Field isn't just | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
any old MP, he is the chair of the DWP select committee. They will be | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
hearing evidence, along with another committee, from Sir Philip Green. In | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
the letter, he says, these statements suggest you leaping to | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
conclusions before any evidence has been heard. I spoke to Frank Field | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
and he says he is voicing what public opinion is. Sir Philip says | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
this makes it a kangaroo court. Neutrals say that the thing is is | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
that this will create more heat than light when this comes to the | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Parliamentary committee and we need some cold, hard analytical answers | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
to some questions. What was already going to be a box of this affair, it | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
looks like the temperature is being turned up. -- a box office affair. | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
Football, and Liverpool are through to the Europa League final. | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
They beat the Spanish side Villarreal at Anfield. | :28:49. | :28:50. | |
Would it be another one of those nights? Anfield have inspired some | :28:51. | :29:03. | |
spine tingling comebacks over the years, and Liverpool needed another. | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
1-0 down after the first leg and it will soon very nearly two, only | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
Simon Mignolet's acrobatics denying Villarreal. That seemed to stir the | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
hosts. Moments later, the breakthrough, not exactly a thing of | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
beauty, an own goal by Bruno, but neither the Liverpool players nor | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
their fans seemed to mind. 1-1 on aggregate and, come the second half, | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
it got better, as Daniel Sturridge, with a bit of help from the | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
woodwork, sent Anfield into euphoria. That is what it meant and, | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
with ten minutes left, any lingering doubts were finished off by Adam | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
Lallana. Liverpool into the final, where they will face champions | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
Sevilla. A comeback kings have done it again on a night of emotion and | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
elation. Now let's join Huw Edwards | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
in the BBC Election Night studio with a look ahead | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
to tonight's results programme. We will be here from 11:45pm and we | :29:58. | :30:07. | |
will be carrying on through the night. After all, it is the biggest | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
test of electoral opinion across the UK before the next general election. | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
We will have results from the Scottish parliament, the assemblies | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
in Wales and Northern Ireland, more than 100 local councils in England | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
and city mayors including the London mayor. Viewers in Scotland and Wales | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
will have their own coverage and we should get some early results before | :30:28. | :30:28. | |
midnight. Election coverage for viewers | :30:29. | :30:29. | |
in Scotland and Wales | :30:30. | :30:32. |