:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at Ten: Fighting resumes on all major
:00:08. > :00:11.fronts in Syria, ten days after a ceasefire was announced.
:00:12. > :00:13.The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest
:00:14. > :00:16.bombardment in several months, but President Assad
:00:17. > :00:23.I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having
:00:24. > :00:29.As the need for humanitarian aid becomes more critical by the day,
:00:30. > :00:34.there are renewed calls for President Assad to go.
:00:35. > :00:38.The idea of a unitary Assad-led Syria is over and we need
:00:39. > :00:43.We'll be reporting on the latest diplomatic efforts as the Syrian
:00:44. > :00:48.army announces the start of a major new offensive in Aleppo.
:00:49. > :00:51.Also tonight: In Egypt, relatives grieve for hundreds
:00:52. > :00:56.of migrants who drowned yesterday trying to cross to Europe.
:00:57. > :00:59.There's been a great deal of tension and anger here in
:01:00. > :01:03.Relatives were waiting outside the gate right through the night
:01:04. > :01:09.The internet giant Yahoo confirms that security details
:01:10. > :01:16.from 500 million user accounts were hacked in 2014.
:01:17. > :01:18.More protests on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina,
:01:19. > :01:23.where a black man was shot dead by a police officer.
:01:24. > :01:26.And Hull tells the world what's on offer - as it prepares to become
:01:27. > :01:35.And coming up in Sportsday at 10:30pm on BBC News:
:01:36. > :01:37.The County Championship title race is going down to the wire.
:01:38. > :01:39.The season ends tomorrow with Yorkshire, Middlesex
:01:40. > :02:05.Fighting has resumed on all major fronts in Syria,
:02:06. > :02:08.just ten days after a ceasefire was called.
:02:09. > :02:10.The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest
:02:11. > :02:16.Entire streets in some of the rebel-held areas
:02:17. > :02:18.President Assad, whose forces are launching a new offensive
:02:19. > :02:20.in eastern Aleppo tonight, has blamed the Americans
:02:21. > :02:22.for breaking the ceasefire when Syrian soldiers were killed
:02:23. > :02:27.The UN has tried again today to deliver humanitarian aid,
:02:28. > :02:43.as our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.
:02:44. > :02:49.Aleppo last night. These aren't verified pictures, but show
:02:50. > :02:57.warplanes chopping incendiaries honourable warheads -- rebel held
:02:58. > :02:59.territory. At least 45 people were reported killed.
:03:00. > :03:06.TRANSLATION: For anyone who heard the air strikes, they would say it's
:03:07. > :03:08.a world war in Aleppo, a war of ethnic cleansing. The streets are
:03:09. > :03:14.totally empty because of the intense bombing. I've never seen such
:03:15. > :03:17.intense bombing in Aleppo. Elsewhere in Syria, including the central
:03:18. > :03:24.provinces of Hama wontons, there seems little left of whatever
:03:25. > :03:28.ceasefire there was. -- and Homs. In an interview with the Associated
:03:29. > :03:33.Press news agency, Syria's President Assad was defiant. He denies
:03:34. > :03:38.besieging eastern Aleppo. He denies using barrel bombs to kill
:03:39. > :03:42.civilians. A bomb is a bomb, what is the difference between different
:03:43. > :03:46.kinds of bombs? All bombs are tools to kill but it's about how to use
:03:47. > :03:51.it. When you use armament you use it to defend the civilians, you kill
:03:52. > :03:54.terrorists in order to defend civilians. We don't have the moral
:03:55. > :04:01.incentive to kill civilians, we don't have the interest. Hit the
:04:02. > :04:05.war, he said, would drag on as long as outside powers interfered and as
:04:06. > :04:10.for Monday's attack which destroyed a UN Red Crescent humanitarian
:04:11. > :04:13.convoy and killed 28 workers, President Assad denied any
:04:14. > :04:18.involvement. Regarding the claim of the White House yesterday, accusing
:04:19. > :04:23.either the Syrian or the Russian in that regard, I would say whatever
:04:24. > :04:26.the American official said about the conflict in Syria in general has no
:04:27. > :04:33.credibility, whatever they say is lies. And his government forces are
:04:34. > :04:37.gaining control of yet more territory in Syria. Today, over 100
:04:38. > :04:42.rebel fighters and their families were evacuated from opposition held
:04:43. > :04:47.district of Homs. Elsewhere United Nations aid convoy did get through
:04:48. > :04:51.to a rebel held suburb Damascus but so far none has been allowed into
:04:52. > :04:59.Aleppo, something the UN said must change. Please, President Assad, do
:05:00. > :05:04.your bit to enable us to get to eastern Aleppo and also the other
:05:05. > :05:08.besieged areas. Hello, Foreign Secretary. In New York Boris Johnson
:05:09. > :05:11.told me he hadn't given up on diplomacy but conceded prospects
:05:12. > :05:16.were fading. We've seen more bombing of civilians in Aleppo overnight,
:05:17. > :05:24.almost certainly by the regime or by the Russians themselves and yes, I
:05:25. > :05:29.think people would have to say that Kerry Lavrov process is very much in
:05:30. > :05:33.jeopardy. The space for dialogue is shrinking full stop instead, the
:05:34. > :05:37.Syrian military has announced a major new attention on Easter --
:05:38. > :05:41.offensive on eastern Aleppo, after all the people there and across so
:05:42. > :05:45.much of Syria have already suffered. Those talks at the United Nations
:05:46. > :05:50.are still going on and James Robbins is there. AU detecting any signs of
:05:51. > :05:55.even minimal progress there? No. None. I have to say. You heard what
:05:56. > :05:58.President Assad was saying, you heard a little of what the Foreign
:05:59. > :06:04.Secretary has been telling me. Every day this week I think Syria has been
:06:05. > :06:07.on the slide, further and further downwards. It's been the same, I
:06:08. > :06:11.have to say, for the diplomacy here. The situation does look
:06:12. > :06:15.extraordinarily bleak. I mean the Foreign Secretary was saying to me
:06:16. > :06:19.in that interview, look, we have to pin our chances on dialogue. That's
:06:20. > :06:24.what we do, that's the only way eventually to try to get you out of
:06:25. > :06:28.a war. He appealed to the Russians to do what he said would be the
:06:29. > :06:33.right thing, to stop their support for the Assad regime, and to do what
:06:34. > :06:37.he says they've committed to, the Russians, which is to help negotiate
:06:38. > :06:40.a political transition away from President Assad. But there is
:06:41. > :06:43.frankly no sign of that and all the signals I'm picking up from the
:06:44. > :06:48.meeting that's going on now involving the Foreign Secretary,
:06:49. > :06:51.John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov, the other key powers, all the signals coming
:06:52. > :06:55.out of that meeting is that they are making no progress, they are not
:06:56. > :06:58.going to break down and never agreed to meet again, they're going to keep
:06:59. > :07:02.on talking and meet again, but it's very clear they really see little or
:07:03. > :07:08.no prospect of any form of breakthrough. James, thanks once
:07:09. > :07:09.again, James Robbins, our diplomatic correspondent at the United Nations
:07:10. > :07:12.in New York. Four men have been arrested in Egypt
:07:13. > :07:15.on suspicion of people-trafficking after a boat carrying migrants
:07:16. > :07:17.capsized off the coast yesterday. Survivors told the BBC
:07:18. > :07:20.there were about 550 people on board The Egyptian authorities have
:07:21. > :07:26.rescued around 160 people. It happened 12 miles from the shore
:07:27. > :07:29.near the town of Rosetta. From there our correspondent
:07:30. > :07:37.Orla Guerin sent this report. Reclaimed from the sea,
:07:38. > :07:41.survivors of the latest tragedy Saved by the Egyptian military
:07:42. > :07:49.but taken into police custody. Some overwhelmed by exhaustion
:07:50. > :07:53.after up to eight Most were young Egyptians from poor
:07:54. > :08:02.communities who told us they wanted They said more than 550 people
:08:03. > :08:14.were crammed onto the boat. It was very small, said Ahmed,
:08:15. > :08:18.who is 17. We were at sea for days
:08:19. > :08:25.and they kept bringing more people. Before we capsized,
:08:26. > :08:30.half the crew got away. Mohammed survived, but without his
:08:31. > :08:40.cousin, who was just 14. TRANSLATION: May God have mercy
:08:41. > :08:42.on him and all the I was going to die but God
:08:43. > :08:48.helped me. I recited a prayer before death,
:08:49. > :08:55.not once but ten or 15 times. Outside the police station,
:08:56. > :09:05.anguish and anger. Some relatives complaining
:09:06. > :09:08.the authorities took hours to respond to distress signals
:09:09. > :09:13.from the sinking ship. But then what they'd
:09:14. > :09:20.all been waiting for. Well, the survivors
:09:21. > :09:22.are emerging now. They are being reunited
:09:23. > :09:26.with their families. Many of the relatives have
:09:27. > :09:29.been maintaining a vigil here right through the night,
:09:30. > :09:32.hoping against hope to get news of their loved ones,
:09:33. > :09:34.hoping that they were not They survived but his eight-year-old
:09:35. > :09:49.brother did not. He has barely spoken
:09:50. > :09:56.since he was rescued. And this father, beyond
:09:57. > :10:06.words in his grief. Ahmed had just found
:10:07. > :10:10.out his 16-year-old son is no One more young man who died
:10:11. > :10:21.trying for a better life. Orla Guerin, BBC News,
:10:22. > :10:28.Rosetta, Northern Egypt. It was exactly a year ago that
:10:29. > :10:31.ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to relocate thousands
:10:32. > :10:34.of newly-arrived refugees and migrants to different parts
:10:35. > :10:37.of the European Union. They pledged that 120,000
:10:38. > :10:40.who'd arrived in Italy, Greece and elsewhere were to be
:10:41. > :10:45.included in the plan. Today, human rights groups said that
:10:46. > :10:48.in Greece more than 60,000 are still stranded in camps, with
:10:49. > :10:54.only six per cent relocated so far. Many of those left are living
:10:55. > :10:58.in poor conditions on the island of Lesbos, from where our special
:10:59. > :11:05.correspondent Fergal Keane reports. In a camp cramped more
:11:06. > :11:10.than twice its capacity. A defining symbol of how the year
:11:11. > :11:14.has changed the political response We don't even know who we are, this
:11:15. > :11:25.Congolese man says. We came as
:11:26. > :11:26.refugees, now we are There are many young men here,
:11:27. > :11:33.some are refugees from conflict, This week tents were set on fire,
:11:34. > :11:43.apparently in response to false rumours of a mass deportation.
:11:44. > :11:46.Conflict. Hundreds spent the night in
:11:47. > :11:50.the open. Without information,
:11:51. > :11:52.without knowledge about when their asylum claims will be processed,
:11:53. > :11:55.when they can continue their journey, people are growing more
:11:56. > :12:05.and more frustrated and more fearful The camps are within
:12:06. > :12:09.sight of the Turkish coast from where people
:12:10. > :12:10.were There are just over
:12:11. > :12:17.1000 people here. Women and children,
:12:18. > :12:19.families traumatised by Yet even here, a cumbersome asylum
:12:20. > :12:24.process keeps people waiting massacred, raped and enslaved
:12:25. > :12:35.by the so-called Islamic State. This man says his family has
:12:36. > :12:39.been waiting six months. When they burned our home we escaped
:12:40. > :12:42.with only the clothes 11 of his relatives are trapped in
:12:43. > :12:49.Iraq under IS rule. It is a place of slow
:12:50. > :13:00.rhythms but growing impatience with the presence
:13:01. > :13:08.of the camps on their doorstep. You've humiliated the most beautiful
:13:09. > :13:10.island in the Aegean, this man shouts
:13:11. > :13:13.at a government office. Tourism has collapsed
:13:14. > :13:15.since the crisis began as TRANSLATION: People are frustrated
:13:16. > :13:26.because of the migrants in the camp. They've caused problems
:13:27. > :13:28.since the beginning that these have But locals are also volunteering
:13:29. > :13:36.in the camps, like this The classes break the tedium,
:13:37. > :13:41.but suggest an air of The internet company Yahoo has
:13:42. > :13:53.confirmed that hackers have stolen information from around 500 million
:13:54. > :13:57.of its user accounts. The company said it believed
:13:58. > :14:00.the attack, which happened in 2014, Our technology correspondent
:14:01. > :14:13.Rory Cellan-Jones is with me now. It's the scale of this which is
:14:14. > :14:17.quite stunning? That's right, we knew there was evidence of some data
:14:18. > :14:19.from Yahoo was on sale on the Internet, not thought to be that
:14:20. > :14:23.serious. But unlike Yahoo has revealed the scale of the breach,
:14:24. > :14:27.that it looks like the biggest data breach in history. This is what they
:14:28. > :14:31.are saying about the data involved. It may include names, e-mail
:14:32. > :14:34.addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords and
:14:35. > :14:39.crucially security questions and answers, that could be very useful.
:14:40. > :14:42.It may not include they say, they don't think it includes more serious
:14:43. > :14:47.information like unprotected passwords, payment card data and
:14:48. > :14:52.bank account information. But there is serious. They are writing, they
:14:53. > :14:54.say, they are really mailing -- e-mailing those customers affected
:14:55. > :14:58.telling them to change their passwords and there is advice to
:14:59. > :15:01.change your password anyway, especially if you haven't done so
:15:02. > :15:06.since 2014. They are talking about it being the result of action by a
:15:07. > :15:11.state-sponsored actor. There is some speculation that could be Russian
:15:12. > :15:15.hackers. The advice was clear but there's another as well, which is a
:15:16. > :15:19.kind of timing problem for Yahoo was well? It's a very bad time for this
:15:20. > :15:23.to happen to Yahoo. The company has just sold itself to the American
:15:24. > :15:28.mobile phone operator and there is on but that deal hasn't yet gone
:15:29. > :15:31.through. Tonight, that company put out a statement which will not be
:15:32. > :15:34.seen as very reassuring to Yahoo saying it had got limited
:15:35. > :15:38.information about what was going on and it would evaluate it as the
:15:39. > :15:42.investigation proceeded, to see what impact it might have. It casts a
:15:43. > :15:47.very dark shadow on Yahoo's future and the future of that deal.
:15:48. > :15:49.Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled at short notice
:15:50. > :15:51.by hospitals in England last year, but they were not counted
:15:52. > :15:55.in official figures for last-minute delays.
:15:56. > :15:58.The body that represents NHS Trusts in England says the number
:15:59. > :16:01.of operations cancelled at the last minute is often down to a shortage
:16:02. > :16:05.of critical care beds or surgeons and anaesthetists.
:16:06. > :16:08.The NHS has insisted that the proportion of late
:16:09. > :16:16.Our health editor Hugh Pym has the story.
:16:17. > :16:19.It should have been a routine operation but it turned
:16:20. > :16:22.into a nightmare experience for Iona Hevican from Cornwall.
:16:23. > :16:25.After a wait of several months for a hysterectomy,
:16:26. > :16:28.the operation was postponed the day before it was due and then cancelled
:16:29. > :16:34.She felt so upset she went straight to her local radio station
:16:35. > :16:37.in her hospital gown to talk about the experience.
:16:38. > :16:40.As you can see, I've still got my name tags on.
:16:41. > :16:44.The operation did eventually take place and went smoothly, but Iona,
:16:45. > :16:47.who is self-employed, won't forget distress caused
:16:48. > :16:54.by being told of cancellations with very limited notice.
:16:55. > :17:00.Every time they give you a date they are going to do an operation,
:17:01. > :17:03.there's been lot of preparing before you go in so any cancellation that
:17:04. > :17:05.you get is obviously a very traumatic time
:17:06. > :17:07.because of everything, all your plans you made,
:17:08. > :17:11.Official figures show 7.7 million operations were carried out
:17:12. > :17:15.With 1%, there were last minute cancellations on the day
:17:16. > :17:23.Patients were guaranteed a new date within 28 days.
:17:24. > :17:25.But a BBC investigation with information from some hospitals
:17:26. > :17:29.has revealed more short notice cancellations.
:17:30. > :17:33.They said nearly 41,500 were cancelled one to three days
:17:34. > :17:38.These aren't included in official figures and they only cover
:17:39. > :17:44.Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different definitions
:17:45. > :17:50.Hospital chiefs in England admit there's a problem but say increased
:17:51. > :17:55.patient numbers are putting pressure on wards and operating theatres.
:17:56. > :17:58.In a situation where we've got so many people needing planned
:17:59. > :18:02.operations and an increasing level of emergency admissions,
:18:03. > :18:06.then we have a situation where we often need to cancel
:18:07. > :18:14.And isn't that pretty devastating for the patients involved?
:18:15. > :18:16.It's absolutely devastating for the patient involved.
:18:17. > :18:19.We don't underestimate what that means.
:18:20. > :18:22.Iona simply feels she was passed around the system with no
:18:23. > :18:27.They could do basically what they want and they don't
:18:28. > :18:36.I've got problems as much as the next person.
:18:37. > :18:39.The local hospital said it was working hard to reduce short
:18:40. > :18:43.Iona's view is that it has to be a priority for hospitals
:18:44. > :18:53.A state of emergency has been declared in the US city
:18:54. > :18:55.of Charlotte in North Carolina, after a second night of protests
:18:56. > :18:59.over the death of a black man who was shot by police.
:19:00. > :19:02.Riot police fired tear gas to disperse angry crowds in the city
:19:03. > :19:04.centre and the National Guard is to be deployed to
:19:05. > :19:09.There's a heavy police presence in the city of Charlotte tonight.
:19:10. > :19:19.Our correspondent Nick Bryant is there.
:19:20. > :19:25.There have been two nights of violence and the fear is of a third.
:19:26. > :19:31.This is Charlotte, a city that prides itself of being a symbol of
:19:32. > :19:34.the new American south, a modern, multiethnic community that has tried
:19:35. > :19:40.hard and achieved a lot of success in excavating the legacy of
:19:41. > :19:43.segregation. But it has joined a long and expanding list of US cities
:19:44. > :19:44.hit by violent protests. The racial turbulence that marred
:19:45. > :19:46.the American summer has The latest flash point,
:19:47. > :19:49.not a crime-ridden neighbourhood but the heart of downtown Charlotte,
:19:50. > :19:52.rioters running amock amidst The fury was unleashed by yet
:19:53. > :19:57.another police shooting. The third black man killed
:19:58. > :20:03.by US police this week. What precipitated this is police
:20:04. > :20:06.brutality and you see the end result of something that happened,
:20:07. > :20:10.by a police force that is supposed to be hired to protect
:20:11. > :20:14.and serve by the taxpayers. There is now a familiar pattern
:20:15. > :20:18.to these disturbances. A police shooting is followed
:20:19. > :20:21.by peaceful protests We were doing peaceful
:20:22. > :20:32.protest the whole time. This could be Ferguson,
:20:33. > :20:34.Baton Rouge, Minneapolis. The Charlotte violence
:20:35. > :20:39.was sparked by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a black
:20:40. > :20:42.police officer in Police say he emerged
:20:43. > :20:47.from his car with a handgun His family claims he
:20:48. > :20:51.was reading a book. His daughter was live
:20:52. > :20:55.streaming on Facebook Disturbing film also emerged this
:20:56. > :21:07.week of another fatal police shooting in Tulsa,
:21:08. > :21:09.Oklahoma. It shows an unarmed black man,
:21:10. > :21:13.Terence Crutcher, his arms held aloft, being shot by a
:21:14. > :21:17.female officer. Speaking at a black church
:21:18. > :21:25.in front of minority voters he is now trying to woo,
:21:26. > :21:33.Donald Trump strongly This young officer, I don't know
:21:34. > :21:43.We have two more names to add to a list of African Americans
:21:44. > :21:44.killed by police officers in these encounters.
:21:45. > :21:51.It's unbearable and it needs to become intolerable.
:21:52. > :21:53.This is the latest episode in a uniquely American tragedy.
:21:54. > :21:58.One that repeats itself every few months, one that defies resolution.
:21:59. > :22:05.Long-standing problems that keep on bringing anger and blood
:22:06. > :22:24.In the past few minutes, a key development. The police officer from
:22:25. > :22:28.Tulsa, Oklahoma has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. And
:22:29. > :22:34.Charlotte, police say the family of the African-American shot here can
:22:35. > :22:38.see police video of the shooting. They are saying it is inconclusive,
:22:39. > :22:39.but they are prepared to show the family that video, although they
:22:40. > :22:44.won't release it to the public. The Foreign Secretary,
:22:45. > :22:46.Boris Johnson, has said that Britain will begin formal talks to leave
:22:47. > :22:49.the European Union by "the early part of next year" and he's
:22:50. > :22:52.suggested that the discussions could be concluded before
:22:53. > :22:55.the two-year deadline. Mr Johnson was speaking in New York,
:22:56. > :22:58.where he's been attending talks The Government is working
:22:59. > :23:04.towards an Article 50 letter which, as you know, will be produced
:23:05. > :23:08.probably in the early That's still a subject
:23:09. > :23:16.for discussion. Our political correspondent
:23:17. > :23:30.Carole Walker is in Downing Street. Has he been a bit more specific
:23:31. > :23:34.about the timetable that the Prime Minister was? Indeed, tonight,
:23:35. > :23:38.Downing Street are sticking to the position Theresa May has set out
:23:39. > :23:44.several times since becoming Prime Minister, that she will not trigger
:23:45. > :23:48.article 50, the formal negotiations, before the end of the year. That's
:23:49. > :23:52.what she said when she met the president of the European Parliament
:23:53. > :23:55.earlier this evening. So Boris Johnson has gone further than
:23:56. > :24:01.Theresa May is prepared at the but he isn't contradicting her position.
:24:02. > :24:05.There is a lot of pressure on the government to be clearer not just
:24:06. > :24:08.about the timing but it's negotiating position, and the
:24:09. > :24:13.suspicion will be that Boris Johnson is trying to give that process a bit
:24:14. > :24:17.of a push. Not for the first time, Theresa May is making it clear she
:24:18. > :24:21.is not going to allow the Brexiteers in her government to set the pace. A
:24:22. > :24:25.source close to her said the decision would be hers and she would
:24:26. > :24:27.trigger Article 15 when she believed it was the right moment to get the
:24:28. > :24:29.right deal for Britain. Channel 4, which is spending
:24:30. > :24:31.?75 million on a deal to broadcast the Great British Bake Off,
:24:32. > :24:34.has bought a car with one wheel, according to Lord Grade,
:24:35. > :24:36.a former chief executive of Channel 4 and former
:24:37. > :24:39.chairman of the BBC. He spoke after news that
:24:40. > :24:42.Paul Hollywood will be the only member of the current presenting
:24:43. > :24:44.team to move from the BBC, after Mary Berry became
:24:45. > :24:47.the latest to announce Lord Grade said that the board
:24:48. > :24:52.of Channel 4 should be investigating the decision to buy the show,
:24:53. > :24:54.as our correspondent I could almost wring
:24:55. > :25:05.that out like a flannel. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry,
:25:06. > :25:19.the judges on Britain's And now it is all over. Paul
:25:20. > :25:25.Hollywood, seen yesterday at Channel 4. He is going with the Bake Off.
:25:26. > :25:30.Mary Berry is staying with the BBC out of not busy that legacy and
:25:31. > :25:36.bidding a fare well to the soggy bottoms. Moving from one channel to
:25:37. > :25:40.the other should cause a problem but, once you've lost your two main
:25:41. > :25:45.presenters, once you've lost Mary, it almost makes it a different show.
:25:46. > :25:51.For every one that loves the Bake Off, there is a lot of uncertainty.
:25:52. > :25:55.... So the BBC loses the Bake Off but fights to hang onto the
:25:56. > :26:01.presenters. Channel 4 says it wants as few changes as possible but there
:26:02. > :26:04.is only one familiar face left. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed.
:26:05. > :26:09.This battle has become a bit of an Eton mess. A former boss of Channel
:26:10. > :26:14.4 and the BBC feels that the Bake Off issue could even go to offer
:26:15. > :26:18.comp. It also raises issues for the board of Channel 4 and its battle
:26:19. > :26:25.against privatisation, privatisation which he supports. Channel 4 has
:26:26. > :26:27.been arguing for two years with the government against privatisation on
:26:28. > :26:31.the grounds that they are a channel for innovation, a nursery for talent
:26:32. > :26:35.for production companies. I think that argument is now dead. The
:26:36. > :26:40.argument surfaces again, I think the move of Bake Off means they will
:26:41. > :26:46.lose that argument. Channel 4 said it wouldn't have the show if the
:26:47. > :26:49.relationship with the BBC hadn't broken down. Proud of their public
:26:50. > :26:54.service programming, they feel they have saved the Bake Off for free to
:26:55. > :26:59.air television. But what exactly have they bought? Legal opinions
:27:00. > :27:03.differ but an intellectual property expert feels that the BBC, with a
:27:04. > :27:09.few changes and caveats, return to the ovens. In my view, they could
:27:10. > :27:16.have a competition set in a tent in a country setting, having a slightly
:27:17. > :27:20.different version of the show. The BBC certainly wanted to hang onto
:27:21. > :27:26.its Bake Off stars. He even offered Paul Hollywood some appearances on
:27:27. > :27:31.Top Gear. But the Channel 4, one out of four when it comes to talent, but
:27:32. > :27:34.this format has gone around the world with all sorts of presenters.
:27:35. > :27:37.Even with half the audience, this would be a winner.
:27:38. > :27:39.There are 100 days to go until Hull becomes the UK City
:27:40. > :27:41.of Culture for 2017, and the year-long artistic
:27:42. > :27:46.The city is the second to have the title and fought off
:27:47. > :27:48.competition from Swansea, Dundee and Leicester.
:27:49. > :27:51.Among the highlights announced are Opera North performing
:27:52. > :27:53.from the Humber Bridge, and the city hosting
:27:54. > :27:59.There's a price tag of tens of millions of pounds for an arts
:28:00. > :28:01.festival that lasts 12 months, so our arts editor Will Gompertz has
:28:02. > :28:08.This is Hull, frantically getting ready to welcome the world
:28:09. > :28:11.in a little over three months' time when it takes on the mantle of UK
:28:12. > :28:17.City of Culture and hosts a 12-month arty party.
:28:18. > :28:20.Ferens Art Gallery, jewel in the crown of the city.
:28:21. > :28:23.The man behind the festivities tells me the
:28:24. > :28:26.gallery is having a ?4.5 million face-lift in preparation for hosting
:28:27. > :28:29.next year's Turner Prize, which is one highlight in a programme
:28:30. > :28:31.that includes citywide light shows, opera on the Humber Bridge and
:28:32. > :28:37.The overall aim, he says, is to tell Hull's story.
:28:38. > :28:41.It's investing hugely in green energy.
:28:42. > :28:45.It is a port to northern Europe, it is a gateway into Yorkshire.
:28:46. > :28:47.So I think what we try to find is that balance
:28:48. > :28:53.between celebrating the historic nature of this city as a great
:28:54. > :28:56.place, which once had great wealth, its ups and downs socially and
:28:57. > :29:02.economically, but also pushing it into the future as a vibrant place.
:29:03. > :29:05.Last year, I took a tour of the city with Hull-based theatre director
:29:06. > :29:11.And then behind it is going to be an amphitheatre.
:29:12. > :29:15.An amphitheatre? Yeah.
:29:16. > :29:19.It was amazing to see so many people coming down and
:29:20. > :29:25.We then went on to revisit a rundown area of the city known
:29:26. > :29:30.You can see that it's sort of halfway through its
:29:31. > :29:31.transformation, to become this cultural
:29:32. > :29:34.and kind of creative business hub really.
:29:35. > :29:36.It doesn't look like much at the moment, but this,
:29:37. > :29:38.all being well, come January, is going to be Hull's
:29:39. > :29:43.Truth be told, Madeleine, are the local people
:29:44. > :29:46.slightly fed up with all the disruption?
:29:47. > :29:49.Well, of course they are, because the entire city has been,
:29:50. > :29:52.like, barriers across it and trying to navigate those barriers can
:29:53. > :29:56.But I think everybody is starting to see those
:29:57. > :30:00.changes, they are starting to get on board with how brilliant it is
:30:01. > :30:08.People's interpretation of the city by physically coming
:30:09. > :30:11.here, looking around it, talking to people.
:30:12. > :30:14.It's nice to see so much regeneration in the city and I'm
:30:15. > :30:17.looking forward to seeing who comes in to do work
:30:18. > :30:21.I think it's going to be really exciting.
:30:22. > :30:23.I think people look down at Hull and they shouldn't.
:30:24. > :30:26.There's lots of excellent stuff going on in Hull.
:30:27. > :30:28.?130 million plus is being spent on the city's cultural
:30:29. > :30:33.The hope is that the 2017 arts festival will
:30:34. > :30:37.It is a party to which we are all invited.
:30:38. > :30:42.how many of us will want to go.
:30:43. > :31:02.Tonight, racial tension and rioting in response to police shooting and
:31:03. > :31:06.even terror attacks have become grimly familiar to the American
:31:07. > :31:12.people in recent years, but will the latest examples impact on the battle
:31:13. > :31:13.for the White House? Join me now on BBC Two or at 11pm in