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Theresa May touches down in the United States - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Before their meeting - the president's first | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
with a foreign leader - Mrs May addresses | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
She signals a change in UK foreign policy - | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
with clear echoes of that of Mr Trump. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Stepping down for the first time from Air Force One, | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
President Trump looks ahead to his meeting with Mrs May. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
I am meeting with her tomorrow, I don't have my secretary there, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
they want to talk trade, so I will have to handle it myself. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
But Mr Trump's comments approving of torture may prove something | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
of a stumbling block among the diplomatic niceties. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
No post-Brexit slowdown, as the UK economy grows | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Prison suicides at record levels in England and Wales - | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
and a huge increase in attacks on staff. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
It is like a soldier on a battlefield, you don't know | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
On top of that, you have got the fear, am I going | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The Brexit bill is published, causing tension within Labour, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
which tells its MPs - you must vote for it. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
And one of the leading contemporary art prizes in the world - | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
won tonight by a British artist and film-maker. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Manchester United went behind | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Theresa May has arrived in America at the start of a trip | :01:45. | :02:07. | |
which she hopes will pave the way for a post-Brexit trade deal | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
She'll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with Donald Trump, | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
when she meets the new president at the White House tomorrow. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
This evening, she addressed a Republican conference | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
in Philadelphia, in a speech where she sought to find common | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
But the Prime Minister's bid to launch a new era | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
of co-operation with America risked being overshadowed - | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
by a row about President Trump's support for torture, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is travelling | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
with Theresa May and has just sent this report. | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
Opposites attract. Theresa May's hope. But how close does she want to | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
get to him? The Prime Minister made a quieter arrival, making her way | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
down the windy steps in Philadelphia. Her convoy speeding | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
towards her debut in Trump land, here to make friends. No hate, no | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
fear. A reminder right outside the 5-star hotel where they were both to | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
speak, Donald Trump has many enemies as well. The Prime Minister's warm | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
up tax was the president himself. Is he ready for her? I'm meeting with | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
the Prime Minister tomorrow, as you know. Great Britain. I'm meeting | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
with her tomorrow. I don't have my secretary, they want to talk trade, | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
so I'll have to handle it myself. LAUGHTER | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
Which is OK. Then it was her turn, with, as you would expect, fulsome | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
reference to the French -- friendship across the Atlantic. It | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
has been America's destiny to bear the leadership of the free world and | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
to carry that heavy responsibility on its shoulders, but my country, | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has been proud | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
to share that burden and to walk alongside you at every stage. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
APPLAUSE CHEERING | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
But this is much more than a meet and greet. Theresa May came with a | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
serious message for Republicans and the World Cup. Under her leadership, | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
no more Western conflicts like Iraq, or Afghanistan, she suggested. This | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
cannot mean a return to the failed policies of the past. The days of | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
remake the world in our own image are over, but nor can we afford to | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
stand idly by, when the threat is real and when it is in our own | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
interests to intervene. We must be strong, smart and hard-headed, and | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
we must demonstrate the resolve necessary to stand up for our | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
interests. And a warning perhaps directed at the president over an | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
assertive Russia. When it comes to Russia, as so often it is wise to | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
turn to the example of President Reagan, who, during his negotiations | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
with his opposite number Mikhail Gorbachev, used to abide by the | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
adage, trust, but verify. With... APPLAUSE | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
With President Putin, my advice is to engage, but beware. Noticeable as | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
well, her praise for the Republicans, and President Trump's | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
controversial win. Because of what you have done together, because of | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that great victory you have won, America can be stronger, greater and | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
more confident in the years ahead. Even before she touched down though, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Theresa May had a taste of how much political trouble closeness to | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
President Trump could cause. Number Ten believes the risk is worth it, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
because there's a big opportunity as well, but this new friendship could | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
cause fireworks. Every time Donald Trump's speaks his mind. Suggesting | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
torture, banned under British and international law, works. I want to | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
but do I feel it works? Absolutely I feel it works. Prime Minister was | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
adamant Britain won't change its laws and signalled we might stop | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
sharing intelligence with America if torture was brought back. Here among | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
the Republican top brass, the unlikely -- the idea is unlikely to | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
fly. The deep-seated policy in American culture is not to torture. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
So Theresa May is right and President Trump is wrong? I didn't | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
say that. Just one of many awkward subjects the PM and president could | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
discuss tomorrow, a test, even in politics true friends tell the truth | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
to one another, not merely platitudes, or what they want to | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
hear. Laura in Philadelphia, Theresa May clearly trying to set the tone | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
of the relationship she would like the UK to have with Donald Trump. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
That's right, in the city where American revolutionaries at the time | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
through off their attachment to the UK and declared independence, | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Theresa May came here with much more than brought warm words about the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
importance of our traditions and shared history. She came signalling | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
for example a clean break with failed, as she suggested, foreign | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
policy of the past, interventions that America and Britain had been | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
involved in clearly signalling what had happened in Iraq and perhaps | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Afghanistan, where American presidents had taken British prime | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
ministers into conflicts that had worked out badly, very interesting | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
that she used this big, major appearance here to signal such as | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
shift. But more broadly, how does the self-described hard-working | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
vicar's door to reconcile herself to work with the reality TV star | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
billionaire president? The answer from this speech was, with great | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
care and calibration. There were subtle criticisms, warnings for | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
example one Russia, but for example on Nato, where President Trump has | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
expressed doubts, she said she shared some of those doubts but | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
insisted Britain and America must continue to work hard, to make sure | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
that Nato still really matters. As ever with Theresa May, no single | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
word was wasted. Everything was in there, carefully put there, with | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
meaning behind it. But tomorrow, she is off to the White House and the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
talks will turn to trade. The audience here, Republican in | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Philadelphia, is needed -- is the audience to be friends with | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
President Trump than it is back home in Downing Street is well aware this | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
relationship is extremely important, but they also know how controversial | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
it could be. It's not so much that she's trying to walk a fine line, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
it's more like she's having to tiptoe across a tight rope across | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
the whole of the Grand Canyon. Laura in Philadelphia, thank you. Our | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
diplomatic correspondent James Robbins is with me. You were | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
listening to Mrs May's speech in Philadelphia. One thing that stood | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
out was what she appears to be signalling, a change in UK foreign | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
policy. This is a hugely significant speech. Arguably the biggest by a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
British Prime Minister in the United States since Tony Blair's in Chicago | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
in 1999, when he first, openly advocated armed intervention is | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
against dictators, and of course that was repudiated by Theresa May | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
this evening. As if to underscore the failure of current British | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
policy, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier on today told a | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
committee of the House of Lords that, now the policy in Britain had | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
changed, and that President Assad should be permitted to run for | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
election, as part of a democratic resolution of the Syrian civil war. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
That's a complete reversal of British foreign policy. Boris | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Johnson himself called it, a complete flip-flop, but he said, the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
UK had been unable at any stage to fulfil its mantra that the Syrian | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
president should go. Now, by Boris Johnson saying it, it meant Theresa | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
May didn't have to, but those are pretty painful words to have to | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
utter. There is more in the Prime Minister's speech that we've been | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
listening to. She is challenging Donald Trump, particularly over Nato | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
and the UN, and the -- I think she's signalling it will be a bumpy | :10:23. | :10:23. | |
special relationship. Meanwhile, President Trump had | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
other things in his mind Relations between the US and Mexico | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
have soured still further. Following a tweet from Mr Trump | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
suggesting their meeting next week should be scrapped, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
the Mexican president The row centres on President Trump's | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
plans to build a wall along the Mexican border, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
and his repeated insistence that Our North America correspondent | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Nick Bryant reports. Donald Trump's new executive toy. | :10:43. | :10:57. | |
Its first ride today on Air Force One, that potent symbol of US | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
presidential power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Mexican president that were wrapped the centre of a diplomatic storm. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
His plane will stay grounded after a summit between the two leaders | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
scheduled for Washington next week was abruptly called off. This | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Mexican stand-off is over the great totem of the Trump presidency, the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
wall he is determined not just to build along the border, but also to | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
get Mexico to pay for. But in an angry speech last night, the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
country's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, said he wouldn't foot the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
bill. So shortly before leaving the Oval Office this morning, Donald | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Trump decided to conduct his diplomacy by Tweet. If Mexico is | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
to cancel the upcoming meeting. By the time he spoke in Philadelphia, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the Mexicans had announced the summit was off, and that earned a | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
public scolding from President Trump. The president of Mexico and | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
week, unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and I want to go a | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
different route. Almost a week into his term in office it's already | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
becoming clear that Donald Trump is changing the presidency more than | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
the presidency is changing him. On prime-time TV last night, the former | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
property tycoon gave a tour of the country's most prized piece of real | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
estate and it was vintage Donald Trump. I don't want to change too | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
much. I can be the most presidential ever, other than possibly the great | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
Abraham Lincoln, all right? But I can be the most presidential person. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
He's still obsessed with the crowd size that his inauguration. But in a | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
new interview with Fox News, he turned his attention to the group | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
calling itself Islamic State, saying its fighters were thick and | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
demented. The people we are going against, they don't wear uniforms, | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
they are sneaky, dirty rats. And they blow people up in a shopping | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
centre. And they blow people up in a church. These are bad people. The | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
presidency is travelling at a hurtling pace. The late-breaking | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
news tonight, that is now calling for a 20% tax on Mexican imports to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
pay for the wall. Donald Trump is clearly revelling in his seat of | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
power, whether it's in the Oval Office, or at 30,000 feet. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Beautiful, great plane. Nick Bryant, BBC News, Washington. Let's talk to | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
our North American auditor Jon Sopel, at the White House. It's | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
difficult to keep up with events. There's the tax with Mexico, | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
executive orders, he's picking fights with Mexico. There are the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
announcements that they have anticipated and planned for, and | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
there's what they call in the White House, stray voltage, where things | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
haven't gone quite exactly to plan, and there's been a lot of that | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
today. You've had the top team at the State Department, civil servants | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
resigning en masse, you've had all manner of other things as well, the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
row over torture with the Republican leadership distancing themselves | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
from him, you've had the concern over him signing an executive order | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
looking into electoral fraud, even though the evidence is very scant on | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
that, and indeed, so much so that apparently one of the reasons Donald | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Trump believes that, he was told it was so by the German golfer Bernhard | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Langer. These are some of the things that are moving Donald Trump in a | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
certain direction. On top of that we've had the Mexican president | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
announcing that he's not going to come to Washington after all. There | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
seem to be limits on Twitter diplomacy. Let's talk about the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
meeting with Theresa May tomorrow. What reception is she likely to get | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
there? I think she's going to get a very warm reception. I thought what | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
was notable about her speech was how loudly she proclaimed her closeness | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
and was very subtle about the differences, as Laura was saying, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
that she has with this administration. But this is all | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
about trade, and getting a deal, if and when Britain leads the single | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
market, which seems to becoming more and more certain. The thing you have | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
to ask is, who needs that trade deal more? Donald Trump, or Theresa May? | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Theresa May is clearly the answer to that question, which means she's | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
going to have to tread very carefully with Donald Trump, who may | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
be offering her all sorts of nice things, but there may be trapped in | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
there as well. Jon Sopel at the White House, thank you. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
Here in the UK, Strong consumer spending helped the economy grow | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
faster than expected at the end of last year. | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
Figures show it grew by 0.6% in the October to December period. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
It means the British economy expanded by two per cent last year, | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
confounding predictions from some economists that there would be | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
an immediate slowdown after the Brexit vote. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
The Chancellor Philip Hammond said the figures show | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
the economy is robust, but warned there could be a period | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
of uncertainty ahead, as our economics editor | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
It was Napoleon who famously and sarcastically called us | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
a nation of shopkeepers, and the Government will be pleased | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
today the UK economy is still one based on consumers | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Britain's services sector, 80% of the economy, was the reason | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
For shoppers in Reading, it was good business as usual. | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
A lot of people thought that the referendum and the vote | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
to leave the EU would mean consumers might be nervous, "What does | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
the future hold?," and would stop spending. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
No, I haven't seen any difference personally. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
I think consumer spending will maintain itself and, long-term, | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
I think we are in a terribly unstable situation, I really do. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
We have got nothing that is filling us with confidence. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
They drove a myriad of warnings before the referendum. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
There would be a hit to the value of people's homes, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Material slowdown in growth, notable increase in inflation. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Higher prices, less growth means less jobs, so higher unemployment. | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
We are indeed a nation of shoppers and, frankly, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
those gloomy predictions before the referendum haven't come to pass. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Consumer confidence is still strong, business confidence is still strong, | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
but with inflation rising and Britain actually still to start | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
the process of leaving the EU, which of course we haven't done yet, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
The Chancellor meeting apprentices at Microsoft, near Reading, | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
a company that is investing in the UK. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
I met him later and asked him about the Bank of England | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
forecast which said growth could slow next year. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
Is this economic pain cancelled or is it delayed? | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
What the figures today show is that the UK economy continues | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
to be resilient and continues to confound the sceptics. | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Of course, we recognise that as we go into this period | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
of negotiation with the EU, and as we absorb the impact | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
of the depreciation of sterling last year, there will be more uncertainty | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
ahead during the course of this year. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
British-built cars off to the continent today, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
a mark of optimism, as production reached a 17-year high | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
There is still, though, the Brexit shadow. | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
We are getting comments from a number of our members saying | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
they are sitting on their hands, waiting to see what the future | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
will hold, and looking for greater certainty about future | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
relationships, especially with Europe. | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Britain's growth last year was the highest of any | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Are we still waiting for the full Brexit effect? | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says his MPs will face a three-line | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
whip compelling them to vote to trigger Article 50, allowing | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
That's prompted one shadow minister to quit the front bench in protest. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
A two-line bill on the issue entered the Commons today, | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
Our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
John, first of all, what's in the bill, and will it | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Yes, Theresa May hoped to get Brexit started without getting an OK from | :19:31. | :19:43. | |
Parliament, the Supreme Court said we need this. You could write it on | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
the back of an envelope and have room to spare, it gives her | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
authority to get the negotiations to leave going, and take it from there. | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
It will pass comfortably, by the look of things, because most MPs | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
have decided they cannot defy the referendum, and Jeremy Corbyn has | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
told his MPs they can try to influence the outcome, but they | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
cannot stop Brexit. How cookie is it for Jeremy Corbyn? It is difficult | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
for Labour. The Tories were always the party with a running schism over | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Europe, and now it is Labour's term, because their MPs come from areas | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
that voted to leave. He has persuaded some of these unhappy | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
ministers to go along with this, but one of them has resigned. Others | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
will vote against it. He will have to decide whether to sack them. It | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
leaves Labour split on tactics and policy, and ministers confident of | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
getting at least to the starting line of this marathon over an | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
obstacle course towards Brexit. There's been a record rise | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
in suicides, assaults and self-harm inside prisons in England and Wales, | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
and the latest figures are a stark reminder of the crisis | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
in the penal system. There were 354 deaths | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
in prison custody last year. Nearly 6,500 staff were assaulted | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
in the year to last September. And incidents of self-harm are up | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
by nearly a quarter. Our Home Affairs | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
Correspondent June Kelly has been speaking to one prison officer | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
about life inside the prison walls. Life in our jails is getting worse, | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
for staff and prisoners. The rise in assaults, suicides | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
and self-harming is relentless. The sense of crisis in the system | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
was underlined by a riot in Birmingham prison, | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
where inmates posed Just one of a string of jail | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
disturbances in recent months. Amid the volatile atmosphere, | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
today's figures show that in the past year a record number | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
of prisoners have It's very hard when you've got | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
members of your family who... Sarah is a long-serving | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
prison officer, whose She describes having to deal | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
with a teenage suicide. A self-inflicted death | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
is an horrific experience. You feel, is there something | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
more I could have done? I came on duty, and I went | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
to perform a roll check. I lifted the flap, and this young | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
man was suspended in his cell. We lay him on the bed, and I saw | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
a note to his sister on the side, and I saw it was his birthday, | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
and I thought, what a waste. Just describe the thoughts in your | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
head as you're going into work. When you open a door, | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
you don't know what you're I've had everything from urine, | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
faeces, televisions thrown at me. Prisons are awash with drugs | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
and psychoactive substances All adding to the underlying | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
problems of staff shortages Vulnerable prisoners are suffering | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
in the increasingly-threatening I'm very clear that the levels | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
of violence in our prisons are too high, and the levels of self harm | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
are too high. Since I became Justice Secretary, | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
I've focused on dealing That's why we're investing | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
an extra ?100 million. 2,500 extra prison officers across | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
the estate, so that we are able to have a caseload of one prison | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
officer for every six prisoners. But Sarah says the challenge | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
is not recruiting staff, It's like a soldier | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
on a battlefield. You don't know what you're | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
going to be faced with. And on top of that, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
you've got the fear. "Am I going to make | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
it home tonight?" I've never been in fear | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
of my life until now, and we just don't get paid enough | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
to have that fear every day. And there's a lot more detail | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
about the pressures on the prison You can find it | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
at bbc.co.uk/prisons. Tam Dalyell, the former Labour | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
MP for West Lothian, He'll be remembered for his | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
persistent questioning of Margaret Thatcher over | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
the sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War and his | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
campaigning against other conflicts. His family said he had | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
devoted his life to public service. Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day, | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
at the end of the Second World War. Commemorations are being held | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
there to remember the six million Jews and others that were murdered | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
by the Nazis. Our special correspondent | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Allan Little has been to Auschwitz and met one woman | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
who survived her time 72 years ago this week, | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
Soviet troops entered Auschwitz. This was not the only extermination | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
camp in Nazi-occupied Europe. But it was where the evidence | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
was best preserved of the crime that On this railway platform, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Nazi officers separated those chosen to live and work from those sent | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
immediately to die. These pictures showed | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Jews transported here Susan Pollock, 13, | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
was chosen to live. There were no hugs | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
or kisses or embrace. The dehumanisation | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
started immediately. It was just as if I had | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
lost all my feelings. These railway lines extended | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
to almost every corner of Europe, and to the active collaboration | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
of Norwegian civil servants, French police, Polish train drivers, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
Ukrainian paramilitaries. When it was over, a great public | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
silence descended on Europe. After the war, the nations | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
of Europe were so preoccupied by their own victimhood | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
that they did not pay much attention to the uniqueness | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
of what had happened here. The Jews who survived found | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
that the world beyond these perimeter fences did not | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
want to hear their stories. It was only really in the 1960s, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
nearly 20 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, that popular | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
consciousness began to confront what Europe collectively | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
had done to its Jews. International law | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
changed immediately. At the postwar Nuremberg trials, | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
two new crimes entered the judicial lexicon for the first time, | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
crimes against humanity Before 1945, if a state wished | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
to kill half its population, there was no rule of international | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
law that said you could not do that. The change that occurred, | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
as we know sadly, has not prevented horrors from taking place, | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
but it does mean that when horrors occur, there is now at least | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
an objective standard which says to governments that as a matter | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
of international law you cannot It took half a century | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
for those powers to be used. But dozens have been convicted | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
and jailed by international courts for genocide and crimes | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
against humanity in Bosnia, The internet is full of claims | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
that the destruction But the testimony of | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
survivors is a warning We are not talking about barbarians, | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
primitive society. The Germans were advanced, | :28:01. | :28:09. | |
educated, progressive, Maybe the civilisation | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
is just a veneer. I think we all need to be very | :28:17. | :28:26. | |
careful about any hate propaganda, because it has got the potential | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
to erupt, and then it is It's considered to be one | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
of the leading international prizes Held every two years, | :28:37. | :28:48. | |
Artes Mundi was founded in 2002. And within the past hour the winner | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
of the ?40,000 prize has been The celebrated British artist | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
and filmmaker John Akomfrah Here is the winner of | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
the 2017 Artes Mundi. It is a film, but not | :29:02. | :29:12. | |
of the Oscar-winning variety. It's more a series of vignettes, | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
reflecting on the harrowing nature It's by the Ghanaian-born, | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
London-based artist John Akomfrah, whose own family were forced to flee | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
persecution, and like millions today, experienced what it can feel | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
like to move to another country. Imagine this, if you're | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
a child of migrants, you sort of live with this, | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
and if you've lived for as long as I have, | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
you've heard this for awhile. I remember this | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
conversation in the '60s. Conversations about whether or not | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
there were too many of you here, It's such a tragic topic and then, | :29:46. | :29:55. | |
when you pull it into art, you give I don't always do things | :29:56. | :30:08. | |
which are beautiful. But, I mean, I don't shun it just | :30:09. | :30:18. | |
because the subject's tough. In fact, that's the reason | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
why you bring to bear certain formal questions, | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
to think about ways in which you can make something which feels | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
to people outside of it like, "I wouldn't touch that, | :30:31. | :30:39. | |
I wouldn't watch that," as a sort of prelude, | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
as a kind of an invitation. Other artists taking part | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
in the prize include the French-Algerian Neil Beloufa | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
and American Amy Franceschini. Among the judges was a curator | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
deemed by one publication to be the most-powerful person | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
in the art world. Where, I asked, does she think this | :31:00. | :31:00. | |
prize fits into a landscape already I think Artes Mundi is very | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
important for the UK, because the awards you have | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
in the UK are national. It's for British artists, | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
or British-based artists, so what the UK didn't really have | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
in a very eminent way So I think it fills | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
a gap, an important gap. The judges said they awarded | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
the prize to John Akomfrah for the way in which his work | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
explores migration, To speak of these things | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
at this moment, they said, Newsnight is getting | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
underway over on BBC Two. Tonight, Theresa May is in the US, | :31:38. | :31:46. | |
getting ready to forge a new relationship with the leader | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
of the free world, so does she put trade first and leave | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
the ticking off until later? And we revisit Trainspotting on the | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
eve of the long-awaited sequel. Here on BBC One it's time | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
for the news where you are. | :32:02. | :32:08. |