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Tonight at Ten: Fighting resumes on all major | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
fronts in Syria, ten days after a ceasefire was announced. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
bombardment in several months, but President Assad | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
As the need for humanitarian aid becomes more critical by the day, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
there are renewed calls for President Assad to go. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
The idea of a unitary Assad-led Syria is over and we need | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
We'll be reporting on the latest diplomatic efforts as the Syrian | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
army announces the start of a major new offensive in Aleppo. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Also tonight: In Egypt, relatives grieve for hundreds | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
of migrants who drowned yesterday trying to cross to Europe. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
There's been a great deal of tension and anger here in | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Relatives were waiting outside the gate right through the night | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
The internet giant Yahoo confirms that security details | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
from 500 million user accounts were hacked in 2014. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
More protests on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
where a black man was shot dead by a police officer. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
And Hull tells the world what's on offer - as it prepares to become | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
And coming up in Sportsday at 10:30pm on BBC News: | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
The County Championship title race is going down to the wire. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
The season ends tomorrow with Yorkshire, Middlesex | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Fighting has resumed on all major fronts in Syria, | :01:40. | :02:05. | |
just ten days after a ceasefire was called. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
The city of Aleppo has suffered its heaviest | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Entire streets in some of the rebel-held areas | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
President Assad, whose forces are launching a new offensive | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
in eastern Aleppo tonight, has blamed the Americans | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
for breaking the ceasefire when Syrian soldiers were killed | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
The UN has tried again today to deliver humanitarian aid, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
as our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports. | :02:28. | :02:43. | |
Aleppo last night. These aren't verified pictures, but show | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
warplanes chopping incendiaries honourable warheads -- rebel held | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
territory. At least 45 people were reported killed. | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
TRANSLATION: For anyone who heard the air strikes, they would say it's | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
a world war in Aleppo, a war of ethnic cleansing. The streets are | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
totally empty because of the intense bombing. I've never seen such | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
intense bombing in Aleppo. Elsewhere in Syria, including the central | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
provinces of Hama wontons, there seems little left of whatever | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
ceasefire there was. -- and Homs. In an interview with the Associated | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Press news agency, Syria's President Assad was defiant. He denies | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
besieging eastern Aleppo. He denies using barrel bombs to kill | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
civilians. A bomb is a bomb, what is the difference between different | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
kinds of bombs? All bombs are tools to kill but it's about how to use | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
it. When you use armament you use it to defend the civilians, you kill | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
terrorists in order to defend civilians. We don't have the moral | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
incentive to kill civilians, we don't have the interest. Hit the | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
war, he said, would drag on as long as outside powers interfered and as | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
for Monday's attack which destroyed a UN Red Crescent humanitarian | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
convoy and killed 28 workers, President Assad denied any | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
involvement. Regarding the claim of the White House yesterday, accusing | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
either the Syrian or the Russian in that regard, I would say whatever | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the American official said about the conflict in Syria in general has no | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
credibility, whatever they say is lies. And his government forces are | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
gaining control of yet more territory in Syria. Today, over 100 | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
rebel fighters and their families were evacuated from opposition held | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
district of Homs. Elsewhere United Nations aid convoy did get through | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
to a rebel held suburb Damascus but so far none has been allowed into | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Aleppo, something the UN said must change. Please, President Assad, do | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
your bit to enable us to get to eastern Aleppo and also the other | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
besieged areas. Hello, Foreign Secretary. In New York Boris Johnson | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
told me he hadn't given up on diplomacy but conceded prospects | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
were fading. We've seen more bombing of civilians in Aleppo overnight, | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
almost certainly by the regime or by the Russians themselves and yes, I | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
think people would have to say that Kerry Lavrov process is very much in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
jeopardy. The space for dialogue is shrinking full stop instead, the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Syrian military has announced a major new attention on Easter -- | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
offensive on eastern Aleppo, after all the people there and across so | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
much of Syria have already suffered. Those talks at the United Nations | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
are still going on and James Robbins is there. AU detecting any signs of | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
even minimal progress there? No. None. I have to say. You heard what | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
President Assad was saying, you heard a little of what the Foreign | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Secretary has been telling me. Every day this week I think Syria has been | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
on the slide, further and further downwards. It's been the same, I | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
have to say, for the diplomacy here. The situation does look | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
extraordinarily bleak. I mean the Foreign Secretary was saying to me | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
in that interview, look, we have to pin our chances on dialogue. That's | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
what we do, that's the only way eventually to try to get you out of | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
a war. He appealed to the Russians to do what he said would be the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
right thing, to stop their support for the Assad regime, and to do what | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
he says they've committed to, the Russians, which is to help negotiate | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
a political transition away from President Assad. But there is | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
frankly no sign of that and all the signals I'm picking up from the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
meeting that's going on now involving the Foreign Secretary, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov, the other key powers, all the signals coming | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
out of that meeting is that they are making no progress, they are not | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
going to break down and never agreed to meet again, they're going to keep | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
on talking and meet again, but it's very clear they really see little or | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
no prospect of any form of breakthrough. James, thanks once | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
again, James Robbins, our diplomatic correspondent at the United Nations | :07:09. | :07:09. | |
in New York. Four men have been arrested in Egypt | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
on suspicion of people-trafficking after a boat carrying migrants | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
capsized off the coast yesterday. Survivors told the BBC | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
there were about 550 people on board The Egyptian authorities have | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
rescued around 160 people. It happened 12 miles from the shore | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
near the town of Rosetta. From there our correspondent | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Orla Guerin sent this report. Reclaimed from the sea, | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
survivors of the latest tragedy Saved by the Egyptian military | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
but taken into police custody. Some overwhelmed by exhaustion | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
after up to eight Most were young Egyptians from poor | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
communities who told us they wanted They said more than 550 people | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
were crammed onto the boat. It was very small, said Ahmed, | :08:03. | :08:14. | |
who is 17. We were at sea for days | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
and they kept bringing more people. Before we capsized, | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
half the crew got away. Mohammed survived, but without his | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
cousin, who was just 14. TRANSLATION: May God have mercy | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
on him and all the I was going to die but God | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
helped me. I recited a prayer before death, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
not once but ten or 15 times. Outside the police station, | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
anguish and anger. Some relatives complaining | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
the authorities took hours to respond to distress signals | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
from the sinking ship. But then what they'd | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
all been waiting for. Well, the survivors | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
are emerging now. They are being reunited | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
with their families. Many of the relatives have | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
been maintaining a vigil here right through the night, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
hoping against hope to get news of their loved ones, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
hoping that they were not They survived but his eight-year-old | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
brother did not. He has barely spoken | :09:35. | :09:49. | |
since he was rescued. And this father, beyond | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
words in his grief. Ahmed had just found | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
out his 16-year-old son is no One more young man who died | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
trying for a better life. Orla Guerin, BBC News, | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
Rosetta, Northern Egypt. It was exactly a year ago that | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to relocate thousands | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
of newly-arrived refugees and migrants to different parts | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
of the European Union. They pledged that 120,000 | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
who'd arrived in Italy, Greece and elsewhere were to be | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
included in the plan. Today, human rights groups said that | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
in Greece more than 60,000 are still stranded in camps, with | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
only six per cent relocated so far. Many of those left are living | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
in poor conditions on the island of Lesbos, from where our special | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
correspondent Fergal Keane reports. In a camp cramped more | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
than twice its capacity. A defining symbol of how the year | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
has changed the political response We don't even know who we are, this | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Congolese man says. We came as | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
refugees, now we are There are many young men here, | :11:26. | :11:26. | |
some are refugees from conflict, This week tents were set on fire, | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
apparently in response to false rumours of a mass deportation. | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
Conflict. Hundreds spent the night in | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
the open. Without information, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
without knowledge about when their asylum claims will be processed, | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
when they can continue their journey, people are growing more | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
and more frustrated and more fearful The camps are within | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
sight of the Turkish coast from where people | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
were There are just over | :12:10. | :12:10. | |
1000 people here. Women and children, | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
families traumatised by Yet even here, a cumbersome asylum | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
process keeps people waiting massacred, raped and enslaved | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
by the so-called Islamic State. This man says his family has | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
been waiting six months. When they burned our home we escaped | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
with only the clothes 11 of his relatives are trapped in | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Iraq under IS rule. It is a place of slow | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
rhythms but growing impatience with the presence | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
of the camps on their doorstep. You've humiliated the most beautiful | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
island in the Aegean, this man shouts | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
at a government office. Tourism has collapsed | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
since the crisis began as TRANSLATION: People are frustrated | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
because of the migrants in the camp. They've caused problems | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
since the beginning that these have But locals are also volunteering | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
in the camps, like this The classes break the tedium, | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
but suggest an air of The internet company Yahoo has | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
confirmed that hackers have stolen information from around 500 million | :13:42. | :13:53. | |
of its user accounts. The company said it believed | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
the attack, which happened in 2014, Our technology correspondent | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones is with me now. It's the scale of this which is | :14:01. | :14:13. | |
quite stunning? That's right, we knew there was evidence of some data | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
from Yahoo was on sale on the Internet, not thought to be that | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
serious. But unlike Yahoo has revealed the scale of the breach, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
that it looks like the biggest data breach in history. This is what they | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
are saying about the data involved. It may include names, e-mail | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords and | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
crucially security questions and answers, that could be very useful. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
It may not include they say, they don't think it includes more serious | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
information like unprotected passwords, payment card data and | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
bank account information. But there is serious. They are writing, they | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
say, they are really mailing -- e-mailing those customers affected | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
telling them to change their passwords and there is advice to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
change your password anyway, especially if you haven't done so | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
since 2014. They are talking about it being the result of action by a | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
state-sponsored actor. There is some speculation that could be Russian | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
hackers. The advice was clear but there's another as well, which is a | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
kind of timing problem for Yahoo was well? It's a very bad time for this | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
to happen to Yahoo. The company has just sold itself to the American | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
mobile phone operator and there is on but that deal hasn't yet gone | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
through. Tonight, that company put out a statement which will not be | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
seen as very reassuring to Yahoo saying it had got limited | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
information about what was going on and it would evaluate it as the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
investigation proceeded, to see what impact it might have. It casts a | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
very dark shadow on Yahoo's future and the future of that deal. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled at short notice | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
by hospitals in England last year, but they were not counted | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
in official figures for last-minute delays. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
The body that represents NHS Trusts in England says the number | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
of operations cancelled at the last minute is often down to a shortage | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
of critical care beds or surgeons and anaesthetists. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
The NHS has insisted that the proportion of late | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Our health editor Hugh Pym has the story. | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
It should have been a routine operation but it turned | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
into a nightmare experience for Iona Hevican from Cornwall. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
After a wait of several months for a hysterectomy, | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
the operation was postponed the day before it was due and then cancelled | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
She felt so upset she went straight to her local radio station | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
in her hospital gown to talk about the experience. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
As you can see, I've still got my name tags on. | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
The operation did eventually take place and went smoothly, but Iona, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
who is self-employed, won't forget distress caused | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
by being told of cancellations with very limited notice. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Every time they give you a date they are going to do an operation, | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
there's been lot of preparing before you go in so any cancellation that | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
you get is obviously a very traumatic time | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
because of everything, all your plans you made, | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
Official figures show 7.7 million operations were carried out | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
With 1%, there were last minute cancellations on the day | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Patients were guaranteed a new date within 28 days. | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
But a BBC investigation with information from some hospitals | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
has revealed more short notice cancellations. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
They said nearly 41,500 were cancelled one to three days | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
These aren't included in official figures and they only cover | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different definitions | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Hospital chiefs in England admit there's a problem but say increased | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
patient numbers are putting pressure on wards and operating theatres. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
In a situation where we've got so many people needing planned | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
operations and an increasing level of emergency admissions, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
then we have a situation where we often need to cancel | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
And isn't that pretty devastating for the patients involved? | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
It's absolutely devastating for the patient involved. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
We don't underestimate what that means. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Iona simply feels she was passed around the system with no | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
They could do basically what they want and they don't | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
I've got problems as much as the next person. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
The local hospital said it was working hard to reduce short | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Iona's view is that it has to be a priority for hospitals | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
A state of emergency has been declared in the US city | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
of Charlotte in North Carolina, after a second night of protests | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
over the death of a black man who was shot by police. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse angry crowds in the city | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
centre and the National Guard is to be deployed to | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
There's a heavy police presence in the city of Charlotte tonight. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Our correspondent Nick Bryant is there. | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
There have been two nights of violence and the fear is of a third. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
This is Charlotte, a city that prides itself of being a symbol of | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
the new American south, a modern, multiethnic community that has tried | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
hard and achieved a lot of success in excavating the legacy of | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
segregation. But it has joined a long and expanding list of US cities | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
hit by violent protests. The racial turbulence that marred | :19:44. | :19:44. | |
the American summer has The latest flash point, | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
not a crime-ridden neighbourhood but the heart of downtown Charlotte, | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
rioters running amock amidst The fury was unleashed by yet | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
another police shooting. The third black man killed | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
by US police this week. What precipitated this is police | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
brutality and you see the end result of something that happened, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
by a police force that is supposed to be hired to protect | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
and serve by the taxpayers. There is now a familiar pattern | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
to these disturbances. A police shooting is followed | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
by peaceful protests We were doing peaceful | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
protest the whole time. This could be Ferguson, | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
Baton Rouge, Minneapolis. The Charlotte violence | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
was sparked by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a black | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
police officer in Police say he emerged | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
from his car with a handgun His family claims he | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
was reading a book. His daughter was live | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
streaming on Facebook Disturbing film also emerged this | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
week of another fatal police shooting in Tulsa, | :20:56. | :21:07. | |
Oklahoma. It shows an unarmed black man, | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
Terence Crutcher, his arms held aloft, being shot by a | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
female officer. Speaking at a black church | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
in front of minority voters he is now trying to woo, | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
Donald Trump strongly This young officer, I don't know | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
We have two more names to add to a list of African Americans | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
killed by police officers in these encounters. | :21:44. | :21:44. | |
It's unbearable and it needs to become intolerable. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
This is the latest episode in a uniquely American tragedy. | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
One that repeats itself every few months, one that defies resolution. | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Long-standing problems that keep on bringing anger and blood | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
In the past few minutes, a key development. The police officer from | :22:06. | :22:24. | |
Tulsa, Oklahoma has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. And | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Charlotte, police say the family of the African-American shot here can | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
see police video of the shooting. They are saying it is inconclusive, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
but they are prepared to show the family that video, although they | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
won't release it to the public. The Foreign Secretary, | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Boris Johnson, has said that Britain will begin formal talks to leave | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
the European Union by "the early part of next year" and he's | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
suggested that the discussions could be concluded before | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
the two-year deadline. Mr Johnson was speaking in New York, | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
where he's been attending talks The Government is working | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
towards an Article 50 letter which, as you know, will be produced | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
probably in the early That's still a subject | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
for discussion. Our political correspondent | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
Carole Walker is in Downing Street. Has he been a bit more specific | :23:17. | :23:30. | |
about the timetable that the Prime Minister was? Indeed, tonight, | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Downing Street are sticking to the position Theresa May has set out | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
several times since becoming Prime Minister, that she will not trigger | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
article 50, the formal negotiations, before the end of the year. That's | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
what she said when she met the president of the European Parliament | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
earlier this evening. So Boris Johnson has gone further than | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Theresa May is prepared at the but he isn't contradicting her position. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
There is a lot of pressure on the government to be clearer not just | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
about the timing but it's negotiating position, and the | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
suspicion will be that Boris Johnson is trying to give that process a bit | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
of a push. Not for the first time, Theresa May is making it clear she | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
is not going to allow the Brexiteers in her government to set the pace. A | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
source close to her said the decision would be hers and she would | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
trigger Article 15 when she believed it was the right moment to get the | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
right deal for Britain. Channel 4, which is spending | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
?75 million on a deal to broadcast the Great British Bake Off, | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
has bought a car with one wheel, according to Lord Grade, | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
a former chief executive of Channel 4 and former | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
chairman of the BBC. He spoke after news that | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
Paul Hollywood will be the only member of the current presenting | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
team to move from the BBC, after Mary Berry became | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
the latest to announce Lord Grade said that the board | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
of Channel 4 should be investigating the decision to buy the show, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
as our correspondent I could almost wring | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
that out like a flannel. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
the judges on Britain's And now it is all over. Paul | :25:06. | :25:19. | |
Hollywood, seen yesterday at Channel 4. He is going with the Bake Off. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Mary Berry is staying with the BBC out of not busy that legacy and | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
bidding a fare well to the soggy bottoms. Moving from one channel to | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the other should cause a problem but, once you've lost your two main | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
presenters, once you've lost Mary, it almost makes it a different show. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
For every one that loves the Bake Off, there is a lot of uncertainty. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
... So the BBC loses the Bake Off but fights to hang onto the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
presenters. Channel 4 says it wants as few changes as possible but there | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
is only one familiar face left. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
This battle has become a bit of an Eton mess. A former boss of Channel | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
4 and the BBC feels that the Bake Off issue could even go to offer | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
comp. It also raises issues for the board of Channel 4 and its battle | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
against privatisation, privatisation which he supports. Channel 4 has | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
been arguing for two years with the government against privatisation on | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
the grounds that they are a channel for innovation, a nursery for talent | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
for production companies. I think that argument is now dead. The | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
argument surfaces again, I think the move of Bake Off means they will | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
lose that argument. Channel 4 said it wouldn't have the show if the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
relationship with the BBC hadn't broken down. Proud of their public | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
service programming, they feel they have saved the Bake Off for free to | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
air television. But what exactly have they bought? Legal opinions | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
differ but an intellectual property expert feels that the BBC, with a | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
few changes and caveats, return to the ovens. In my view, they could | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
have a competition set in a tent in a country setting, having a slightly | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
different version of the show. The BBC certainly wanted to hang onto | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
its Bake Off stars. He even offered Paul Hollywood some appearances on | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
Top Gear. But the Channel 4, one out of four when it comes to talent, but | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
this format has gone around the world with all sorts of presenters. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
Even with half the audience, this would be a winner. | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
There are 100 days to go until Hull becomes the UK City | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
of Culture for 2017, and the year-long artistic | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
The city is the second to have the title and fought off | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
competition from Swansea, Dundee and Leicester. | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
Among the highlights announced are Opera North performing | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
from the Humber Bridge, and the city hosting | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
There's a price tag of tens of millions of pounds for an arts | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
festival that lasts 12 months, so our arts editor Will Gompertz has | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
This is Hull, frantically getting ready to welcome the world | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
in a little over three months' time when it takes on the mantle of UK | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
City of Culture and hosts a 12-month arty party. | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
Ferens Art Gallery, jewel in the crown of the city. | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
The man behind the festivities tells me the | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
gallery is having a ?4.5 million face-lift in preparation for hosting | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
next year's Turner Prize, which is one highlight in a programme | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
that includes citywide light shows, opera on the Humber Bridge and | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
The overall aim, he says, is to tell Hull's story. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
It's investing hugely in green energy. | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
It is a port to northern Europe, it is a gateway into Yorkshire. | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
So I think what we try to find is that balance | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
between celebrating the historic nature of this city as a great | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
place, which once had great wealth, its ups and downs socially and | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
economically, but also pushing it into the future as a vibrant place. | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
Last year, I took a tour of the city with Hull-based theatre director | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
And then behind it is going to be an amphitheatre. | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
An amphitheatre? Yeah. | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
It was amazing to see so many people coming down and | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
We then went on to revisit a rundown area of the city known | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
You can see that it's sort of halfway through its | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
transformation, to become this cultural | :29:31. | :29:31. | |
and kind of creative business hub really. | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
It doesn't look like much at the moment, but this, | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
all being well, come January, is going to be Hull's | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
Truth be told, Madeleine, are the local people | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
slightly fed up with all the disruption? | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
Well, of course they are, because the entire city has been, | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
like, barriers across it and trying to navigate those barriers can | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
But I think everybody is starting to see those | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
changes, they are starting to get on board with how brilliant it is | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
People's interpretation of the city by physically coming | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
here, looking around it, talking to people. | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
It's nice to see so much regeneration in the city and I'm | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
looking forward to seeing who comes in to do work | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
I think it's going to be really exciting. | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
I think people look down at Hull and they shouldn't. | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
There's lots of excellent stuff going on in Hull. | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
?130 million plus is being spent on the city's cultural | :30:27. | :30:28. | |
The hope is that the 2017 arts festival will | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
It is a party to which we are all invited. | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
how many of us will want to go. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Tonight, racial tension and rioting in response to police shooting and | :30:43. | :31:02. | |
even terror attacks have become grimly familiar to the American | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
people in recent years, but will the latest examples impact on the battle | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
for the White House? Join me now on BBC Two or at 11pm in | :31:13. | :31:13. |