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On the front line as Iraqi forces continue their assault | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
With helicopter gunships in the skies, troops take more | :00:07. | :00:19. | |
territory from IS as they advance on the city of Mosul. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The town of Abu Saif is under attack. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
It's all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper. | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
But they are running into stronger resistance and roadside bombs. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Theresa May perches on a step to keep an eye on the House | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Famine is declared in South Sudan - a country devastated | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
We do have famine, and food insecurity has worsened in many | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
parts of this country, largely because of this | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
An increase in council tax in nearly every authority in England - | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
but it's still not enough to pay for social care. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
And the dream is over for Sutton United as Arsenal head | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
the five sports that lost their Olympic and Paralympic | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
funding have had their appeals rejected by UK Sport. | :01:23. | :01:48. | |
There's been ferocious fighting between Iraqi forces and so-called | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Islamic State as troops battle their way towards | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Their helicopter gunships now control the skies, but the road | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
to IS's last stronghold in Iraq is littered with roadside bombs. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
To win back Mosul is crucial as it's Iraq's second largest city. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
An offensive on the east of Mosul began last October. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Now Iraqi troops, supported by British | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
and American special forces, are trying to take | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
control of the west, where 750,000 people | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Nikki Millard are the only international journalists | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Their report contains some graphic images. | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
Iraq says its Mosul operation is the dawn of victories | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
and on the second day of their offensive, its troops | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
again prepared to face the so-called Islamic State. | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
An armoured force, set on the city's west. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Yesterday, Iraqi forces moved like a blitzkrieg | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
The reason being, all along this route, there are suspected roadside | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Slowed to a crawl at times, bomb disposal technicians | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
But above, they have full command of the skies. | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
In their sights, a small IS-held town, Abu Saif. | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
Emptied of people, every home there became a target. | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
The town of Abu Saif is under attack. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
It's all that lies between these men and Mosul city proper. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
They managed to get here in record time and now, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
from the air, and from land, they're trying to take Abu Saif. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
For the first time, these forces have sight of Mosul. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
For Colonel Fallah Ali Wabdan, it is an important prize | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
TRANSLATION: Abu Saif is very important for us | :04:09. | :04:23. | |
because it's on high ground and that is very good | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
in helping us win control of the airport, which is below us. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
Iraqi forces are using the latest warfare tools. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
Filmed this morning during the battle, watch | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
American and British special forces are a mostly | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
This motorbike was cut in half by an air strike. | :04:49. | :05:02. | |
The corpses, believed to be two IS fighters, lie in the dirt. | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
By the afternoon, Abu Saif was back in government hands, but it | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
hadn't slipped fully from the militants' grip. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
They struck back, killing at least two soldiers. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
And the day ended as it began, with IS home-made bombs. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
So these tactics are designed to slow down the advance | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
IS are using them in greater concentration, | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
in bigger towns and villages, so as these troops move forward, | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
they will experience better defences and more resistance, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Still, this was another important Iraqi victory. | :05:47. | :06:01. | |
But winning against the Islamic State comes at a cost. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
As the House of Lords began debating the Brexit bill today, | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Theresa May sat in on the session, the first time in nearly 20 years | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
Downing Street denied her presence was a form of intimidation, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
but peers were warned not to try to stop Brexit | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
Our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar has more. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Blue lights flashing, Theresa May was determined not to miss this. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
She'd already sent peers a clear message while out campaigning. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Brexit is coming - get out of the way. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Properly, there will be debate and scrutiny in the House of Lords | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
but I don't want to see anybody holding up what the | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Prime ministers scarcely ever appear here, perched by tradition | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
As the PM watched, reported threats to abolish the Lords if peers | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
blocked Brexit were dismissed to her face. | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
We will not be threatened into not fulfilling our normal | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
And neither will we be goaded into acting irresponsibly. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
If we ask the House of Commons to look again at an issue, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
it is not a constitutional outrage, but a constitutional responsibility. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
190 peers wanted to speak, a modern record. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Labour's former Trade Secretary was scathing about Government | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
claims that Britain could keep its trading rights. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Not, he said, if the UK abandoned EU rules. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
And to say otherwise, my Lords, is a fraud on the public. | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
The Lib Dems want a second referendum, although no one now | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
For many of us, the approach being adopted by the Government | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
For those of us, and there are very many in Your Lordship's house, | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
for whom Europe has been a central theme of our entire political lives, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
to sit on our hands in these circumstances is both | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
These EU migrant workers protesting today want their right to live | :08:08. | :08:21. | |
and work in Britain guaranteed, not later in talks - now. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
In the coming days, ministers will be pressed to agree. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
But here were over 50,000 letters demanding the law to get Brexit | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
started should be passed quickly with no changes, an argument | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
supported by some who had campaigned against it. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
I voted to remain in the European Union, but I support | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
this bill because I believe the referendum was decisive. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
A former Chancellor said no deal was better than a bad one. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
As soon as it is clear that sadly, our European Union partners | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
won't accept our offer, we should move on. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
There is nothing to be gained by protracted | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
They will be talking until the early hours and tomorrow until midnight. | :09:01. | :09:12. | |
Then next week, the Government may just lose votes on migrant rights | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
and on the right of Parliament to demand a better deal. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
But when it comes to a test of who backs down, Theresa May | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Peers spotted Boris Johnson in the House, too, a show | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
The betting is that Lords won't defy the elected MPs or the referendum. | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Ministers mean to keep the final say on Brexit and start divorce | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
Nearly every local authority in England is planning to increase | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
council taxes in the coming year to provide care for | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
From April, council tax could rise by nearly 5% | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
But the Local Government Association says that still won't be enough | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
and warns there will have to be deep cuts to other council services. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
147 of them plan to raise council tax specifically to pay | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Our Social Affairs correspondent Alison Holt reports from Surrey. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
This is where the pressure on the social care | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
system can at times be seen most clearly. | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
81-year-old Margaret Williams has been in hospital since she had | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
a fall, but is waiting for the care she will need | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
And it is social workers in Surrey who are trying to arrange | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Because I've been in here for how many weeks? | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
So obviously, I'm going to be weaker. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Yeah, so we think you need someone to come in at least four times | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
In a busy hospital, she knows her bed is in demand, but for | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the council, finding funding and companies to provide home | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
When I met her, she had been in hospital | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
And then they sent me home, but I had to | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
come back in two or three days and I've been here ever since. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
I'm just phoning up regarding Margaret | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Williams, which we are waiting for the joint funding. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Social workers were able to get her the care she | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
But according to today's local government survey, most councils | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
for this sort of support for people in care homes or their own homes. | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
In Surrey, they say it is relentless. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
I've worked in adult social care for 20 years | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
and I've never known the | :11:41. | :11:41. | |
And there's no simple solution to it. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
People are living longer, and their needs are | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
And Surrey's chief executive believes | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
they have no choice but to raise council tax to meet the growing | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
We are struggling to balance next year's | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
budget and we are really struggling to balance and make it sustainable | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
I think our services are at breaking point. | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
Surrey's Conservative-led council abandoned plans to ask | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
voters for a 15% tax rise after what were described as government | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
But like most authorities in today's survey, | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
council tax here is likely to rise by nearly 5%. | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
And many councils warn that other services like bin collections | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
and road mending will still face cuts. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
There has been a united voice of local government to say that | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
they need to have more funding into social care | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
and that the crisis in | :12:42. | :12:42. | |
But the Government says extra money is already being put into | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
social care, particularly services like this, which help people regain | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
It also says local authorities will soon be able | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
to keep all the money raised by council tax and business rates, | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
giving them more control over their spending. | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
Meanwhile, NHS managers in England say winter pressures, | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
including an unexpected number of hospital admissions and A | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
patients, have contributed to an overspend that will see | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the Trusts collectively miss the national financial target. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
NHS finances have been under pressure for some time. The | :13:23. | :13:37. | |
Government says it has helped by helping hospitals reduce their | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
agency staffing bills and that has had an impact. Even so, figures are | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
worse than expected. Last November, the regulator, NHS improvement, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
predicted a full-year deficit for trusts in England of ?580 million. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
It has now had to revise that up to a new figure of up to ?850 million | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
for those trusts over the year. To put that in perspective, that is | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
against a total budget of 80 billion. What other reasons? The | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
first lies in A Between October and December last year, the numbers | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
of patients going into A were up by 200,000 over the same period the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
previous year, more than expected. That costs hospitals money. Another | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
reason is difficult it is discharging patients back into the | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
community because of social care problems. That means hospitals are | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
close to being full. They have had to cancel routine surgery and | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
operations. That costs them money, because they don't get the income if | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
those operations are cancelled. Once again, that is social care affecting | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
NHS finances. So all eyes are on the Budget now. Ministers say they are | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
coming up with a package of measures for social care in England. NHS | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
leaders will be watching closely to see whether they make a difference | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
thank you very much. Footage has emerged of the moment | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
the exiled brother of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
was attacked last week The CCTV images appear to show | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
a woman walking up to Kim Jong-nam He died a short time | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
later and so far, four Our Tokyo Correspondent Rupert | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Wingfield-Hayes reports. These are the last moments | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
of Kim Jong-nam's life as he walked into Kuala Lumpur Airport | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
a week ago today. Suddenly, a woman in a white top | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
grabs him from behind and places The whole thing has taken | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
less than five seconds. Moments later, Kim Jong-nam can | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
be seen seeking help He told them he'd had | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
something wiped on his face These final images show him being | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
led to the airport medical centre. A short time later, | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
he collapsed and died. The accusation that North Korea's | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
dictator had his own brother assassinated today | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
prompted this response. It has been seven days | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
since the incident, but there is no clear evidence on the cause | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
of the death, and at the moment, we cannot trust the investigation | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
by the Malaysian police. Malaysian police now have four | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
suspects in custody. These two women from Indonesia | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
and Vietnam are accused They claim they had no idea | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
what they were doing, that they were paid to take part | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
in what they thought Then on Saturday, police detained | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
a 46-year-old North Korean man But four other North Korean suspects | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
appear to have got away, flying to Jakarta on the day | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
of the murder. The Malaysians still don't know | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
what was on the cloth that was wiped A second autopsy has now been | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
ordered to try and identify A state of famine has been declared | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any | :16:56. | :17:07. | |
part of the world since 2011. The government and the United | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Nations report that around 100,000 people are currently affected, | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
and just under five million people, 40% of the country's population, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
are in urgent need of food. South Sudan is the world's newest | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
country, having gained independence But hopes of prosperity have been | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
shattered by three years of civil Alistair Leithead sent this report | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
from the capital city, Juba. When famine hits, | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
the smallest suffer. There's acute malnutrition | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
here in the children's hospital in the capital, | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
but it's far worse upcountry, His distended belly and painful skin | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
condition are obvious Malnutrition is really bad | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
because it has increased. It has been here for some | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
years, but this year, Hadiya gets one or maybe | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
two meals a day. Her mother, Mary, can't afford | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
to feed her, amid the economic chaos This is Unity State, | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
a rebel stronghold where 100,000 people now feel the effects | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
of famine, and 1 million Some aid has been | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
delivered but not enough. Famine is not declared lightly, | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
only when help doesn't reach, and when large numbers of people | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
are starving to death every day. The real tragedy is that this | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
is largely man-made, and we do have famine and food | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
insecurity has worsened in many parts of the country, | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
largely because of this Because of fighting, | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
because of insecurity, because of access challenges, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
also because of attacks on humanitarian workers | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
and sometimes looting of assets, we have not been able | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
to provide assistance For more than three years, | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
a civil war has been fought across South Sudan, | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
largely along ethnic lines. The former vice president | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
and president Salva Kiir, in the hat, are from | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
the two main tribes. Their political spat | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
tore the country in two. Well over 3 million | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
people have been forced Hundreds of thousands | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
of them are in camps set up by the United Nations, | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
across the country, 1.5 million have fled | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
to neighbouring countries, creating one of the worst refugee | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
crises in the world. Towns have emptied here | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
in the crop-growing south of the country, adding | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
to the food shortages. In the last six months, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
450,000 people have fled to Uganda. Thousands still cross | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
the border every day, and describe atrocities, | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
rape and murder, by The UN has warned of the potential | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
for genocide and now a deepening Alastair Leithead, | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
BBC News, south Sudan. We can speak to our UN correspondent | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Nick Bryant, who's in New York. Now the UN has declared a state | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
of famine in South Sudan, what difference will | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
that practically make? The declaration of a famine by | :20:37. | :20:51. | |
itself does not automatically trigger a heightened international | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
response. What the United Nations is hoping for is that it will focus | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
more global attention on the crisis in South Sudan and also get more | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
local access on the ground for relief agencies who are trying to | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
feed these are starving people. Unicef has more than 600 feeding | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
stations in South Sudan right now but it can't reach the famine | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
affected areas because it is simply too dangerous to go into them. One | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
official I spoke to a few moments ago said he hopes this declaration | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
of famine will bang heads together of some of the warring factions, so | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
they will grant humanitarian access. Global attention is a key problem as | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
well, especially at the time when so much international diplomatic | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
bandwidth is taken up by countries like Syria and Yemen. To give you an | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
illustration of the problem, the United Nations has appealed this | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
year for $1.6 billion to help the situation in South Sudan. As of | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
tonight, it has received less than 1% of that figure. Despairingly, a | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
senior UN official said to me tonight, that is part of a larger | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
problem. The international humanitarian system is just being | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
completely overwhelmed right now. It cannot cope simultaneously with | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
these crises in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan and other countries as well. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
The UN to night is considering declaring famines in three other | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
countries, northern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. What is so frustrating is | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
that these famines Ahmad made. Yes, they are exacerbated by drought and | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
crop failures, but primarily, they are caused by conflict and war. Nick | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Bryant at the UN in New York, thank you. | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
After one resignation and one refusal, President Trump has now | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
named his latest pick for the role of National Security Advisor. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
General HR McMaster replaces General Michael Flynn, | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
who was forced to step down earlier this month after making | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
secret phone calls with Russia and misleading the vice | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
Mr Trump has just been speaking about why he made | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
He's a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
I've watched and read a lot over the last two days. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
He is highly respected by everybody in the military, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
and we are very honoured to have him. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Let's talk to our North America editor Jon Sopel. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
So who is General McMaster and is President Trump likely | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Welcomer if you had General Mike Flynn here, conspiracy theorist, | :23:16. | :23:28. | |
controversial, McMaster is on the other side of the scale altogether. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
He is mainstream, a soldier's soldier, described as the US Army's | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
for most warrior intellectual. He has written a very good book on | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Vietnam in which he criticised the way the government handled it. He | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
has also been closely involved in the campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and saying they did not do enough about counterinsurgency. Under the | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Obama administration, he was also brought in to look at the kind of | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
hybrid warfare being waged by Russia and the lessons that needed to be | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
learned and the threat posed by Russia. A very different kind of | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
individual. A lot of people are saying, frankly, Donald Trump could | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had appointed general McMaster | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
in the first place. His appointment has been welcomed by some of the | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
mainstream Republicans, also, interestingly, the vice president | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Mike Pence had a say in who should be appointed. What we don't know is | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
whether he has got the autonomy to appoint his deputies. That was a | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
controversial matter with regards to Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
State who couldn't. We will have to see over the coming days. Just one | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
other thing to bear in mind, you talked about the one person who | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
rejected the president, there was some talk that may be Donald Trump | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
would struggle. General McMaster is a serving military officer - he | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
couldn't say no. Jon Sopel, thank you very much. | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
Here, there have been protests in several cities around the UK over | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
Mr Trump's planned state visit to the UK. | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
The biggest, in London, saw thousands of demonstrators | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
It coincided with a debate in Westminster following a petition | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
signed by nearly 2 million people calling for the visit | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
The Government says the state visit will definitely go ahead, | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
but that didn't stop MPs from clashing over it. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
What are we contributing to by allowing President Trump | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
to continue in that rhetoric which divides people | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
and tells us that Muslims are the enemy, that the Muslims | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
That is me as a Muslim in this house. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
I am not an enemy to Western democracy. | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
We can refer to all the things about Donald Trump, | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
as some people have, even though he is | :25:39. | :25:39. | |
While we have been on air, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed | :25:40. | :25:55. | |
that five teenagers have been arrested in London on suspicion of | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
the preparation of terrorist acts. The arrests are understood to relate | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
to plans to travel to join a banned organisation. | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
UK Sport has rejected appeals by seven sports that won't receive | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
funding ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Archery, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
won't get any money, and badminton, which secured | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
a bronze medal in Rio, has been stripped of its funding, too. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Our sports editor Dan Roan sent this report from | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes. | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
Public money has transformed Britain's Olympic and Paralympic | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
fortunes, but as well as winners, there are losers. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
These are among the seven sports that today learned their desperate | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
appeals against funding cuts have been rejected. | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
Perhaps the unluckiest, badminton, which had ?5.7 million wiped out | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
despite meeting its Rio medal target with this bronze | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
The woman who controls the purse strings told me | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Badminton and wheelchair rugby and other sports have | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
got medal potential, but it is not strong | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
enough for it to be higher in the meritocratic table. | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
We have just run out of resources to be able to reach that far. | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
But here at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes, | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
they are reeling from a decision that threatens jobs | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Absolutely devastated. I'm gutted. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
From a player point of view, you need that funding to help | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
you get in the best shape possible, to go out there and win a medal | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
And knowing that you haven't got that support from UK Sport just | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
means that everything is hard work, everything is an obstacle, | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
But with falling ticket sales hitting all-important | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
National Lottery funding, UK Sport says its resources | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
UK Sport's no-compromise approach has helped transform | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Britain into an Olympic and Paralympic superpower. | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
But for the first time, sports with real medal potential | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
are being excluded from funding and rarely before has this winning | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
The approach that we take has worked and it will continue to work as long | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
as we are not deviated from it by a general feeling | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
that there might be in the general public that actually, | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
the resources should be spread across more athletes | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
Actually, that will compromise the results and we will do less | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
well in the Olympics and Paralympics in 2020. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
?350 million is being invested in a bid to better Britain's triumph | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
in Rio but for those sports cut adrift, the future | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
The journalist and broadcaster Steve Hewlett has died | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
The former BBC Panorama editor and presenter of Radio 4's | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
The Media Show had movingly documented his final months | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
The BBC's Director-General Tony Hall said Steve Hewlett had been | :28:47. | :28:57. | |
a trusted voice who embodied the best of public | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
Football, and the dream is over. In United. The non-league club had | :29:00. | :29:08. | |
hoped cause a major upset tonight and secure a place in the | :29:09. | :29:09. | |
quarterfinals of the FA Cup. But in what was the biggest match | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
in the club's history, Our sports correspondent | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
Natalie Pirks was watching. Sutton United are not used to seems | :29:15. | :29:24. | |
like this, the arrival of Arsenal through Gander green lane into | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
temporary chaos. As the Premier League stars battled their way | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
towards the dressing room, sat in United's fans dreamt about what | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
might be. We have to be careful because they don't play an | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
artificial grass. -- they have to be careful. It will be harder for them. | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
We have home advantage as well. We could beam but -- win but if we get | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
beaten 5-0, Nick Scruton has been amazing. In the goldfish bowl of | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
this tiny ground, one manager was under far more pressure than the | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
other but for the part-timers, who once had top-flight dreams, to night | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
with their showcase, particularly the ones who used to play for | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
Arsenal, like Roarie Deacon. But as the 12 time FA Cup winners got to | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
grips with the plastic pitch, they began to grow in confidence. They | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
began to find the gaps. Lucas Perez' classy crosscourt at the South | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
Londoners. A pub of the fists to lift the early tension. But if | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
Arsenal needed a reminder they were still in a game, they quickly got | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
one, a crunching one. Ospina could have done with a wake-up call, too, | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
his mistake almost leading to a southern equaliser. But quality | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
always find a way. 100 up for Theo Walcott in Arsenal red and white. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
Arsenal's longest serving current player with a century for the club. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
That would be that, surely, wouldn't it? Sutton had other plans. It was | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
sufficiently worrying enough for Arsen Wenger to centre the crowd | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
pleasing cavalry. Here comes Alexis Sanchez. But in truth, the | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
cholesterol levels on the bench looked to be the bigger threat. | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Arsenal had done their job but so had Sutton, desire, heart, pride. It | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
has been one hell of a ride. Arsenal's team was packed with | :31:05. | :31:12. | |
internationals and a World Cup winner, yet still there was no gulf | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
in class. Of course, in the end, quality and fitness told by force | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
Sutton United, this cup run has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Now | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
it is over to Lincoln city, the only non-league side left in the FA Cup | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
and the night, the Sutton manager has urged them to go out and enjoy | :31:29. | :31:29. | |
their | :31:30. | :31:30. |