:00:00. > :00:07.A final decision - on whether to expand Heathrow
:00:08. > :00:09.or Gatwick airports - will be announced by
:00:10. > :00:14.But the Government's official preference,
:00:15. > :00:17.on where to build a new runway, won't be put to a Parliamentary vote
:00:18. > :00:21.And the Prime Minister is to allow colleagues to speak out
:00:22. > :00:26.Some Conservative MPs are unhappy with the position.
:00:27. > :00:29.I think it's deeply disappointing if we fudge and delay this decision,
:00:30. > :00:32.so vital to Britain's interests, so vital to Britain's
:00:33. > :00:37.We'll have more on the latest indications that backing will be
:00:38. > :00:44.Following the killing of a mother and daughter in Lincolnshire,
:00:45. > :00:50.a 15-year-old girl has been convicted of murder.
:00:51. > :00:54.The rising price of fuel and clothing pushing inflation to its
:00:55. > :00:56.highest level for nearly two years. (
:00:57. > :00:59.50 years after the Aberfan disaster, the story of the community's long
:01:00. > :01:03.And we meet Bruce Springsteen to talk about life, music
:01:04. > :01:11.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:12. > :01:15.Riyad Mahrez scores a crucial opening goal, as Leicester City
:01:16. > :01:18.look to take a huge step towards the Champions League
:01:19. > :01:41.A final decision on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick
:01:42. > :01:44.will be announced by the Government next week.
:01:45. > :01:47.But that won't be the end of the matter, because the preference
:01:48. > :01:50.won't be put before MPs for at least another year.
:01:51. > :01:53.And in a highly unusual move, Cabinet ministers who are opposed
:01:54. > :01:56.will be allowed to speak publicly against the plan.
:01:57. > :02:00.That's being seen as a strong hint that backing will be given
:02:01. > :02:03.to Heathrow, which is opposed by the Foreign Secretary,
:02:04. > :02:10.Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, has the story.
:02:11. > :02:16.The long awaited choice of where and how to expand Britain's airport
:02:17. > :02:20.capacity has hung in the air for over a quarter of a century. It's
:02:21. > :02:25.vital to travel and trade in post Brexit Britain. Today the verdict -
:02:26. > :02:35.a new or extended runway at Heathrow or another at Gatwick has drawn
:02:36. > :02:40.closer. Demos have marched through the years. Parties are split and so
:02:41. > :02:44.is the Cabinet. Education Secretary Justine Greening, seen here shoulder
:02:45. > :02:48.to shoulder with Labour's Shadow Chancellor against Heathrow. And
:02:49. > :02:51.Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, another colleague whose
:02:52. > :02:56.opposition has been loud and clear. I will lie down with you in front of
:02:57. > :02:59.the bull dozers and stop the building, stop the construction of
:03:00. > :03:02.that third runway. Today the Prime Minister wrote to ministers setting
:03:03. > :03:07.out plans to reach a decision and keep her Cabinet from splitting. The
:03:08. > :03:10.time table looks like this: Next week a Cabinet committee meets to
:03:11. > :03:15.recommend a preferred option. Ministers will be free for a time to
:03:16. > :03:19.restate their known views and objections, but they can't actively
:03:20. > :03:25.campaign, which should avoid resignations. Then there will be
:03:26. > :03:29.public consultation. Then in winter 2017/18 Parliament votes on a final
:03:30. > :03:32.plan. Then it could take at least a decade before any runway is built.
:03:33. > :03:35.It's important to get the decision and get it right. We've been waiting
:03:36. > :03:39.for a long time for airport expansion in the UK. We need it.
:03:40. > :03:43.Post-Brexit, if we are going to be an open, trading nation, and looking
:03:44. > :03:47.at new alliances around the world, then we're certainly going to need
:03:48. > :03:50.more airport capacity. Have you changed your mind on Heathrow
:03:51. > :03:54.expansion? Senior ministers, including Boris Johnson, and his
:03:55. > :03:57.fellow opponent to Heathrow expansion, Justine Greening, were at
:03:58. > :04:01.Number Ten today to hear of the deal that's meant to keep them aboard.
:04:02. > :04:04.Not everyone likes. It If you are a minister, if you sit round the
:04:05. > :04:08.Cabinet table, as I've done in the past, you have to go along with the
:04:09. > :04:12.collective decisions or you don't have to be a minister. That's your
:04:13. > :04:16.choice. This fudge, this in-between world, that's unacceptable and it
:04:17. > :04:20.will do great damage to our economy. It's about internal Tory party
:04:21. > :04:25.political issues. We have divisions of opinion in our party as well. But
:04:26. > :04:29.we wouldn't have let that cause us to delay making a decision. Tonight,
:04:30. > :04:32.Boris Johnson seemed to suggest casually as ever, he still hoped the
:04:33. > :04:34.case against Heathrow might yet prevail.
:04:35. > :04:40.REPORTER: Are you going to lie in front of the bull dozers at
:04:41. > :04:43.Heathrow? It's unlikely there will be bull dozers. Take care. Either
:04:44. > :04:48.way there's a distance to travel before this long and hazardous
:04:49. > :04:53.political journey reaches its end. Navigating the course is tricky. The
:04:54. > :04:56.decision taking like the planning process deeply complex and none
:04:57. > :05:02.hurried. Even when a final decision is taken, there's every chance of a
:05:03. > :05:06.legal challenge from the likes of Greenpeace and a queue of local
:05:07. > :05:10.authorities. Those who have been press soing hard for a decision --
:05:11. > :05:12.pressing so hard for a decision will just have to wait, whether they like
:05:13. > :05:15.it or not. Thanks very much.
:05:16. > :05:18.A 15-year-old girl has been found guilty of murdering a woman
:05:19. > :05:21.and her daughter at Spalding in Lincolnshire, in what police said
:05:22. > :05:26.The girl - who can't be named because of her age -
:05:27. > :05:29.had admitted the manslaughter of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards
:05:30. > :05:32.but claimed to have been suffering from a mental disorder.
:05:33. > :05:35.Her teenage boyfriend had already admitted a charge of murder.
:05:36. > :05:39.They'll both be sentenced next month, as Danny Savage reports.
:05:40. > :05:42.Liz Edwards and her daughter Katie were found murdered in their home
:05:43. > :05:47.They were both well liked and adored each other.
:05:48. > :05:50.This crime is exceptional, though, because they were
:05:51. > :05:53.killed by two children, a boyfriend and girlfriend,
:05:54. > :05:57.drawn together by violence and extreme thoughts.
:05:58. > :06:03.She was today found guilty of murder and has never shown any remorse.
:06:04. > :06:06.What makes this case even more shocking is that these two were 14
:06:07. > :06:09.years of age when they planned, committed these callous,
:06:10. > :06:14.senseless and unprovoked attacks on Elizabeth and Katie.
:06:15. > :06:21.This case has left a number of lives in ruins.
:06:22. > :06:23.Liz Edwards, 49-years-old, and enjoying Christmas with the man
:06:24. > :06:26.she was hoping to marry.
:06:27. > :06:36.Friends say she was happy and content.
:06:37. > :06:39.I did notice a change in her, she was a lot happier in herself,
:06:40. > :06:42.she met somebody she could trust, who loved her kid as much
:06:43. > :06:46.as she did, which I thought was really sweet.
:06:47. > :06:49.Jane Blanford also knew Liz Edwards and she has strong views on the two
:06:50. > :06:53.14-year-olds who sat down to watch teen romance vampire films
:06:54. > :06:58.I've got nothing to say, he's just scum.
:06:59. > :07:01.I hope he gets locked up and they throw the key away,
:07:02. > :07:04.She could have had a bright future ahead of her.
:07:05. > :07:07.If this didn't happen, he could have had a bright future.
:07:08. > :07:09.I just see it that they've thrown everything all away.
:07:10. > :07:12.And they didn't just throw everything away on a whim,
:07:13. > :07:16.the two teenagers planned these murders in detail.
:07:17. > :07:18.They went and sat in a local McDonald's to plot.
:07:19. > :07:22.And on the night of the killings, the boy walked along
:07:23. > :07:25.this river in the dark to rendezvous with the girl,
:07:26. > :07:29.carrying kitchen knives to kill their victims.
:07:30. > :07:32.What happened next was described in court as cold, calculated,
:07:33. > :07:39.The girl told police she'd felt like murdering for quite
:07:40. > :07:41.a while and that a gun would have been easier,
:07:42. > :07:48.The murder weapon was shown to the jury, who were asked
:07:49. > :07:51.to consider if the girl was mentally ill.
:07:52. > :07:56.The personal possessions of the victims have now gone
:07:57. > :07:59.from an end terrace in a Lincolnshire cul-de-sac.
:08:00. > :08:02.The two killers of this mother and daughter cannot be named
:08:03. > :08:07.That may change when they're sentenced next month.
:08:08. > :08:15.The rate of inflation has risen to its highest level
:08:16. > :08:18.for nearly two years, with some experts warning it
:08:19. > :08:21.could be driven significantly higher by the fall in the value
:08:22. > :08:24.of the pound, following the vote to leave the EU.
:08:25. > :08:26.The Consumer Price Index hit 1% last month, driven by higher fuel
:08:27. > :08:32.The impact will start to be felt by millions of public sector
:08:33. > :08:34.workers and families on benefits and tax credits,
:08:35. > :08:39.as our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, explains.
:08:40. > :08:44.How much we pay to fill up with fuel.
:08:45. > :08:47.How much we pay for what we wear all have increased in price
:08:48. > :08:52.as inflation starts to march upward and it is just the start.
:08:53. > :08:55.I think it's fair to say that the trajectory for inflation
:08:56. > :08:59.from here is likely to the up side and that really is largely
:09:00. > :09:02.as the falls in the currency start to feed through to
:09:03. > :09:07.We've only just started seeing signs of that.
:09:08. > :09:12.Clothing prices were 6% higher last month as stores slowed
:09:13. > :09:18.Restaurant and hotel prices were also up by 0.7% after summer
:09:19. > :09:25.bargains ended and fuel crept up a little to 111 pence per litre
:09:26. > :09:30.compared to 110 pence last year, a small increase with larger rises
:09:31. > :09:39.Well, currently there's a bit of a double whammy,
:09:40. > :09:42.the main factor is the pound is so much weaker against the dollar,
:09:43. > :09:48.We buy our fuel in dollars, so that affects us and then,
:09:49. > :09:51.on the other side, Opec and Russia are talking about cutting back
:09:52. > :09:54.on production, so that puts the crude price up.
:09:55. > :09:57.Higher prices for fuel, higher prices for food are difficult
:09:58. > :09:59.for people to pay particularly if they are on lower incomes.
:10:00. > :10:03.They're also difficult politically, Theresa May knows there is one key
:10:04. > :10:06.equation in politics - if inflation is rising
:10:07. > :10:09.faster than incomes, then people feel worse off and that
:10:10. > :10:19.That political risk could crystallise as early as next year
:10:20. > :10:22.with predictions inflation could rise above 3%.
:10:23. > :10:26.With the Government also freezing benefits for people in work,
:10:27. > :10:29.the just managing classes could be hit hardest.
:10:30. > :10:32.Theresa May's made it clear that she wants to help those
:10:33. > :10:35.families that are just about managing or kind
:10:36. > :10:38.of struggling to get by, but actually that's exactly the kind
:10:39. > :10:43.of group of families that this freeze in working age benefits
:10:44. > :10:47.affects because it doesn't just affect out of work households
:10:48. > :10:49.claiming benefits, but in-work households claiming things
:10:50. > :10:54.As those benefits stay flat in cash terms, if prices rise,
:10:55. > :10:57.they're going to find it harder to afford things like food and fuel
:10:58. > :11:03.The head of Tesco in the UK said that food inflation was lethal
:11:04. > :11:07.A little inflation might be good for the economy,
:11:08. > :11:10.but too much and the consumer will soon start to feel
:11:11. > :11:18.President Obama has said he's confident that the battle
:11:19. > :11:21.to to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic
:11:22. > :11:27.Mr Obama was speaking on the second day of the military offensive,
:11:28. > :11:29.which has seen Iraqi security forces, backed by coalition air
:11:30. > :11:32.strikes, taking several villages in the south.
:11:33. > :11:35.In the north east, Kurdish forces - known as the Peshmerga -
:11:36. > :11:37.are also closing in on the city, which has a million inhabitants.
:11:38. > :11:39.Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, is travelling with them
:11:40. > :11:45.In the distance, Mosul, a city in waiting for deliverance
:11:46. > :11:52.It's the last bastion of IS in Iraq, but for how much longer?
:11:53. > :11:56.As the net closes on so-called Islamic State, the risks
:11:57. > :12:00.are increasing for those trapped down below in Mosul.
:12:01. > :12:05.There's the danger of coalition air strikes, IS could try to use
:12:06. > :12:09.the local population as human shields and if and when Iraqi forces
:12:10. > :12:14.make it inside the city, they could be caught
:12:15. > :12:20.Here's what IS wants you to see from inside Mosul, it's latest
:12:21. > :12:24.propaganda video paints a picture of normality.
:12:25. > :12:27.The message is, all's well, anyone daring to say
:12:28. > :12:33."Thank God everything is fine", says this man.
:12:34. > :12:45.But some in Mosul are challenging the extremists.
:12:46. > :12:49.This video, from one activist network, shows a recent attack
:12:50. > :12:56.We made contact with the network's founder outside the city,
:12:57. > :13:03.for his own safety, we can't identify him.
:13:04. > :13:11."We are divided into eight groups, each has their own plan
:13:12. > :13:13.Some will destroy communications equipment, some will
:13:14. > :13:16.We have assault rifles an rocket-propelled grenades,
:13:17. > :13:20.but we can't rise up until the security forces get
:13:21. > :13:28.Victory over the extremists can look like this.
:13:29. > :13:32.A year ago they were driven from Abu Mohammad village by air
:13:33. > :13:36.strikes and the Peshmerga, troops from Iraq's autonomous
:13:37. > :13:45.They took us to see what IS may have in store when the battle
:13:46. > :13:51.Here a homemade chemical weapon, chlorine gas attached
:13:52. > :13:55.to an improvised mortar, crude but potentially lethal.
:13:56. > :13:58.The fuses have already been removed.
:13:59. > :14:00.How many of these did you find?
:14:01. > :14:10.Some are fleeing areas near Mosul as troops advance.
:14:11. > :14:14.There could be many more to follow if they can find a way,
:14:15. > :14:19.but Kurdish sources told us IS executed 15 civilians in one
:14:20. > :14:24.village yesterday, just for trying to escape.
:14:25. > :14:29.Orla Guerin, BBC News, east of Mosul.
:14:30. > :14:32.Concerns about the leadership of the inquiry into historical child
:14:33. > :14:36.sexual abuse in England and Wales were reported to the Home Office
:14:37. > :14:39.in April more than three months before Dame Lowell Goddard resigned
:14:40. > :14:43.That was the evidence presented to the Home Affairs
:14:44. > :14:48.Dame Lowell was the third head to quit the inquiry.
:14:49. > :14:52.Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, has the story.
:14:53. > :14:56.The panel of experts running Britain's massive child abuse
:14:57. > :14:59.inquiry arriving for a grilling about its troubles, including
:15:00. > :15:04.the breakdown in relations between them and their former chair,
:15:05. > :15:08.Dame Lowell Goddard, followed by her resignation.
:15:09. > :15:12.It was clear from the beginning that Lowell Goddard really
:15:13. > :15:15.would have preferred to sit on her own without the assistance
:15:16. > :15:30.There were challenges. However...
:15:31. > :15:32.That's a very all-encompassing word "challenges" usually?
:15:33. > :15:33.Well, and indeed there were some fairly all-encompassing
:15:34. > :15:37.The panel had concerns about the qualities of leadership
:15:38. > :15:39.that were being evidenced through the course of the inquiry.
:15:40. > :15:42.Was she a nightmare to work, as some papers have suggested?
:15:43. > :15:46.I would prefer to say that there were challenges.
:15:47. > :15:56.Dame Lowell was appointed in February 2015,
:15:57. > :15:59.but the Home Office - which set up the inquiry -
:16:00. > :16:02.says it only became aware of problems on the 29th July this year.
:16:03. > :16:04.Lowell Goddard resigned six days later, so did the Home Office
:16:05. > :16:09.The answer to that is a categorical, no.
:16:10. > :16:13.There's nothing in the Home Office records to suggest any of my staff
:16:14. > :16:15.dealing with the inquiry were aware, until it was brought
:16:16. > :16:20.Except that, months earlier, a Home Office Director General,
:16:21. > :16:23.Mary Calam, was tipped off by the inquiry, but agreed
:16:24. > :16:28.One problem for the Home Office is that the inquiry
:16:29. > :16:34.There are victims' groups which are deeply concerned
:16:35. > :16:37.at the number of Home Office staff working on the inquiry and some
:16:38. > :16:40.of them are strong supporters of Dame Lowell Goddard.
:16:41. > :16:43.If the Government had intervened, it might have been accused
:16:44. > :16:45.of interfering, a new row, and the inquiry has had
:16:46. > :16:50.Perhaps that's why the Home Secretary gave this reason
:16:51. > :16:56.She was a long way from home and she decided to step down.
:16:57. > :16:58...when giving evidence to MPs in September, without mentioning
:16:59. > :17:03.Today one member of the committee said they'd been misled.
:17:04. > :17:13.This week, the people of Aberfan in South Wales are having to relive
:17:14. > :17:16.the terrible events of half a century ago, when a mountain
:17:17. > :17:18.of coal waste collapsed onto the village school,
:17:19. > :17:21.claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
:17:22. > :17:28.The scale of the disaster made headlines around the world,
:17:29. > :17:30.and people gave generously to support the community.
:17:31. > :17:34.But the families of Aberfan had to fight for decades to get justice,
:17:35. > :17:36.a fight that started on that Friday morning in October 1966.
:17:37. > :17:39.NEWS REEL: We are now returning to the newsroom.
:17:40. > :17:42.Disaster struck suddenly this morning at the small Welsh
:17:43. > :17:46.coalmining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil.
:17:47. > :17:50.At 9.15am, on the last morning of lessons before half-term,
:17:51. > :17:56.Pantglas Junior School was buried underneath a mountain of coal waste.
:17:57. > :17:59.The scale of the loss, 116 children and 28 adults,
:18:00. > :18:03.is still difficult to comprehend, half a century later.
:18:04. > :18:06.What happened at Aberfan was one of the greatest disasters
:18:07. > :18:09.in the modern history of Wales, indeed the modern history
:18:10. > :18:12.of the United Kingdom, and it's important to get one thing clear,
:18:13. > :18:17.It was a man made disaster, it was entirely foreseeable and it
:18:18. > :18:24.of negligence, arrogance and incompetence.
:18:25. > :18:28.One of those who survived the disaster, her life
:18:29. > :18:32.still overshadowed by the events of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick.
:18:33. > :18:35.She was eight at the time and lost her brother Carl and sister
:18:36. > :18:37.Marylyn on that day, she's since written a book
:18:38. > :18:41.We met in the memorial garden on the site of
:18:42. > :18:47.The ceiling of the school had come in and it landed on half
:18:48. > :18:51.the children and I had a radiator, that had come off the wall,
:18:52. > :18:59.I just remember looking at another friend of ours, who had literally
:19:00. > :19:02.tried to climb up through the roof, which was on top of the children,
:19:03. > :19:05.and she said, "I'm going to get help, I'm going
:19:06. > :19:11.I was whisked away in the ambulance to St Tydfil's Hospital
:19:12. > :19:17.and I remained there, isolated I feel, for over three months.
:19:18. > :19:21.And it was then, in the evening time, that I was told
:19:22. > :19:25.that my brother and my sister had died and all my friends had
:19:26. > :19:45.Within weeks of the disaster, an official tribunal was set
:19:46. > :19:46.up, under the Welsh Judge Edmund Davies,
:19:47. > :19:50.ARCHIVE: Well, I should hate to think that anybody
:19:51. > :19:52.would connect me with any whitewashing exercise.
:19:53. > :19:54.But getting straight answers from the National Coal Board,
:19:55. > :19:56.the public body which owned the mines, proved a very
:19:57. > :20:00.The Chairman of the National Coal Board was Lord Robens and he denied
:20:01. > :20:03.any responsibility for the disaster and kept on insisting that it
:20:04. > :20:06.ARCHIVE: We have our normal procedures for ensuring that pits
:20:07. > :20:10.are safe, but I'm bound to say that we have no proceedure that
:20:11. > :20:13.tells us that there is a spring deep down under a mountain.
:20:14. > :20:17.This is the site of the old Merthyr Vale Colliery, this is where
:20:18. > :20:20.the coal waste was put in trams and then sent across the valley
:20:21. > :20:23.and piled high on the mountains opposite and those tips used
:20:24. > :20:28.There was plenty of evidence, based on previous incidents,
:20:29. > :20:31.that piling this waste on wet mountain sides was an exceptionally
:20:32. > :20:37.risky and dangerous thing to do, and yet those warnings were ignored.
:20:38. > :20:40.By the time the report was published, the National Coal Board
:20:41. > :20:45.had been forced to admit that the disaster was foreseeable.
:20:46. > :20:47.It was blamed, unequivocally, for what had happened,
:20:48. > :20:50.but no-one was disciplined or sacked.
:20:51. > :20:52.I only wish that Lord Robens was here today.
:20:53. > :20:55.They should have been sent to jail, lost their jobs.
:20:56. > :20:59.But the battle was far from over, there was still coal tips
:21:00. > :21:03.above Aberfan and people, quite naturally, wanted them gone,
:21:04. > :21:06.but no-one was ready to pay - not the Government, not the Coal
:21:07. > :21:10.The families lobbied the Welsh Office in Cardiff
:21:11. > :21:13.demanding help, what they got instead from the Welsh Secretary,
:21:14. > :21:17.He wanted the local community to use their charity fund
:21:18. > :21:21.ARCHIVE: Of course they will pay what they can afford,
:21:22. > :21:27.but the scheme will depend on what they pay.
:21:28. > :21:30.It took 30 years for the people of Aberfan to regain
:21:31. > :21:34.the money they'd lost, it was finally repaid
:21:35. > :21:37.by the Welsh Government and today the gardens and memorials
:21:38. > :21:41.of the village have been restored giving the families the sense
:21:42. > :21:50.Collectively, we've been able to 50 years get through it as a family.
:21:51. > :21:52.I've always said Aberfan is a family.
:21:53. > :21:55.We've shared our thoughts and feelings, so many good things
:21:56. > :21:58.have come out of Aberfan and have you to think like that.
:21:59. > :22:05.You know, they are courageous, courageous people.
:22:06. > :22:09.That was Gaynor Madgwick, a survivor of the disaster,
:22:10. > :22:12.speaking to me in Aberfan to mark the 50th anniversary.
:22:13. > :22:14.Tonight, at 10.45pm, after the news on BBC One,
:22:15. > :22:24.I'll be telling the full story of Aberfan's long fight for justice.
:22:25. > :22:27.Donald Trump's wife has dismissed the widespread
:22:28. > :22:34.criticism of his conduct, insisting that he's "a gentleman."
:22:35. > :22:36.Melania Trump said that the comments Mr Trump was heard making
:22:37. > :22:38.about women were "inappropriate", but amounted to what
:22:39. > :22:42.Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, has been considering to what extent
:22:43. > :22:43.the Republican presidential candidate is alienating
:22:44. > :22:54.It's pumpkin rolling season in America, a sure sign that polling
:22:55. > :22:58.day is fast approaching and it can't come soon enough for many of these
:22:59. > :22:59.mothers in the suburbs of Philadelphia, deeply offended
:23:00. > :23:02.by Donald Trump's words and alleged behaviour.
:23:03. > :23:04.A new poll, conducted here, suggested he's trailing
:23:05. > :23:11.Hillary Clinton amongst female voters by a staggering 43 points.
:23:12. > :23:13.It just seems part of who he is and I find it just
:23:14. > :23:19.His words are just not something, you know, I want my children to hear
:23:20. > :23:22.and it's just not something that, you know, we want to invite
:23:23. > :23:24.into our house, even though typically I would vote Republican.
:23:25. > :23:26.In an attempt to quell this political storm,
:23:27. > :23:29.a serene Melania Trump has gone on television.
:23:30. > :23:31.A wife, turned character witness, stressing she's
:23:32. > :23:37.Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate
:23:38. > :23:44.and he apologised to me, and I accept his apology.
:23:45. > :23:47.Even before this scandal, Donald Trump's support amongst
:23:48. > :23:50.Republican women had started to slide, but he still has die
:23:51. > :23:56.Donna is not just still planning to vote for him, but also to clock
:23:57. > :24:05.Well, to be honest with you, I wasn't happy, but I know Mr Trump
:24:06. > :24:09.and I know his heart and he loves this country, and he does
:24:10. > :24:17.Ever since the mid 1960s, more women in America have voted
:24:18. > :24:21.than men and they've often had the decisive say in the suburbs that
:24:22. > :24:24.tend to decide the outcome of presidential elections,
:24:25. > :24:30.but for Donald Trump this has become a nationwide crisis.
:24:31. > :24:32.The Republicans have had a women problem for 30 years,
:24:33. > :24:37.that's how long female voters have supported Democratic presidential
:24:38. > :24:41.candidates at a higher rate than men.
:24:42. > :24:44.But Donald Trump has turned that gender gap into a gaping chasm.
:24:45. > :24:48.One recent poll suggested that Hillary Clinton has a 30
:24:49. > :24:57.Today, protests outside Trump buildings around the country
:24:58. > :25:00.from women sensing the likelihood of what they'd see as poetic justice
:25:01. > :25:01.- the election of America's first female president.
:25:02. > :25:10.Nick Bryant, BBC News, Philadelphia.
:25:11. > :25:13.The current state of American politics is an embarrassment
:25:14. > :25:18.in the eyes of the singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
:25:19. > :25:21.He was speaking on a visit to London to launch his autobiography -
:25:22. > :25:24.which has taken seven years to write - and expressed the view that
:25:25. > :25:26.millions of ordinary Americans were being left behind.
:25:27. > :25:36.He spoke to our arts editor, Will Gompertz.
:25:37. > :25:41.Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run sitting on the edge of his bed in
:25:42. > :25:47.his rented cottage. It was a humble beginning for a song that would
:25:48. > :25:53.launch this man from Newses Jersey into rock-and-roll superstar doom.
:25:54. > :26:00.I had two records out. They hadn't done that well. I had only a few
:26:01. > :26:09.record deals. This was my last shot. Initially I have the riff, it's a
:26:10. > :26:13.Duwayne Eddie, riff, basically. Then I had the chorus... Babe yes we were
:26:14. > :26:16.born to run. I couldn't get the rememberses. I spent six months
:26:17. > :26:21.writing it and six months recording it. It developed as it went along
:26:22. > :26:26.into this, into this very, big piece of music. Is that the moment you
:26:27. > :26:30.think - you found your voice, you found yourself, you found Bruce
:26:31. > :26:34.Springsteen? Yeah. One of the few records where I made, after we mixed
:26:35. > :26:38.it, I came home, I I put it on the next morning and said - that's
:26:39. > :26:43.exactly what I wanted it to sound like.
:26:44. > :26:51.# We go down to the river... # You talk about depression. You are
:26:52. > :26:56.32 years old, in the car, and this phrase rang out at me "toxic
:26:57. > :27:02.confusion." What does that mean? You hit a wall. You hit a wall where you
:27:03. > :27:07.simply don't know what to do with the next day. You are uncomfortable
:27:08. > :27:11.with your skin. Unsatisfied with where you are. Completely at loose
:27:12. > :27:17.ends. You don't know how to continue constructing your life. You don't
:27:18. > :27:26.know... You just don't know how to Stepney further.
:27:27. > :27:28.# Oh, down to the river we'd ride... #
:27:29. > :27:31.very unpredictable, but It's toxic confusion would be a good
:27:32. > :27:35.description of where you sit once it lands on you.
:27:36. > :27:43.# Born in the USA # I was born in the USA... #
:27:44. > :27:50.Your country today, what's going on? I'm not going to be able to explain
:27:51. > :27:56.that to you! Part of what's going on is you have 30 or 40 years of
:27:57. > :27:59.deindustrialisation and the globalisation of the economy. So
:28:00. > :28:04.there are a lot of people that were left out of that. Whose voices have
:28:05. > :28:09.been fundamentally ignored and not heard. Why aren't the Democrats
:28:10. > :28:13.doing that? They address it more than Republicans do. You know. But
:28:14. > :28:20.I'm still not sure it's being addressed on a deep enough level to
:28:21. > :28:24.provide answers to until a dem God like Trump comes along who appears
:28:25. > :28:28.to be listening whochl has very simple answers to very, very
:28:29. > :28:35.complicated and difficult questions. I think he's a conman and they are
:28:36. > :28:43.getting plagued, but, you know, if you've been... I know if I was... If
:28:44. > :28:48.I couldn't play music tomorrow and had to fine another completely
:28:49. > :28:52.different line of work. I have no idea what I do He says going into
:28:53. > :28:57.politics isn't a career option. He's going to stick with the day job and
:28:58. > :29:06.let his music do the talking. Will Gompertz, BBC News.
:29:07. > :29:08.Britain's medal-winning Olympic and Paralympic athletes were invited
:29:09. > :29:11.to Buckingham Palace this evening and were greeted by members
:29:12. > :29:12.of the Royal Family, including the Queen
:29:13. > :29:20.The reception marked the end of two days of parades,
:29:21. > :29:27.in Manchester and in London, to celebrate their success
:29:28. > :29:29.at the Rio Games, as Natalie Pirks has this report.
:29:30. > :29:33.With 240 guests to host, you could forgive the Queen for not
:29:34. > :29:37.But to take an active interest in the hockey team's injuries went
:29:38. > :29:43.Whilst some Paralympians gave Her Majesty a lesson
:29:44. > :29:46.in rattling medals, others were quizzed on the matters
:29:47. > :29:51.She was wondering how I was not managing to break my neck
:29:52. > :29:55.It's the question that I got asked quite a lot, actually.
:29:56. > :29:57.But, yes, she seemed very lovely, bless her.
:29:58. > :29:59.So what did you say when she asked you that?
:30:00. > :30:02.I told that they were making my neck very sore,
:30:03. > :30:08.The Duchess of Cambridge is known for her love of hockey.
:30:09. > :30:11.Catherine came bounding in when you won.
:30:12. > :30:14.The Prince told the all conquering team she "bounded in" to break
:30:15. > :30:19.No bounding, but plenty of patriotism from Adam Peaty.
:30:20. > :30:22.For Britain's first gold medallist at the Rio Olympics,
:30:23. > :30:30.It is, you know, a huge honour to be here and just to be in this kind
:30:31. > :30:33.of building is, you know, I'm a hugely patriotic guy,
:30:34. > :30:37.This is why you win golds, for stuff like this and you get
:30:38. > :30:42.Earlier today, in Trafalgar Square, it was a less formal affair.
:30:43. > :30:48.Time now for the athletes to relax and take a well-earned holiday.
:30:49. > :30:51.Many will surely be back to the Palace though
:30:52. > :30:53.when the New Year's Honours list is announced.
:30:54. > :31:00.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:31:01. > :31:15.50 years ago, the BBC lay Cathy Come Home stunned the nation,
:31:16. > :31:19.50 years on, we still have huge problems with housing.
:31:20. > :31:22.We'll be asking if we can ever get a decent home for all.
:31:23. > :31:24.Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.
:31:25. > :31:27.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.