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We report from the frontline, as Iraqi troops make a major | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
breakthrough against so-called Islamic State. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
After a huge military operation, Iraqi troops secure | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
the airport in the country's second largest city. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Over there, it's the Iraqi flag that's flying on the airfield again. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Iraqi forces now have the Islamic State group on the run. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
We'll be looking at whether this is a turning point in the battle | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
A lucky escape for one driver, as Storm Doris wreaks | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Migration figures are down - but some industries worry they'll be | :00:38. | :00:52. | |
A special report into the widespread sexual abuse perpetrated by UN | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
peacekeepers against the children they should protect. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
And what police found in an old nuclear bunker - | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
almost ?1 million worth of cannabis plants. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Whilst Ranieri's off, Wayne Rooney's staying - | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
he's decided to stay at Manchester United for the time being. | :01:17. | :01:40. | |
Tonight, we report from the frontline as Iraqi troops make | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
a major breakthrough in the battle against so-called Islamic State. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
After fierce fighting, they've taken the airport | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
in Iraq's second city, Mosul. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
It's a key staging point to driving the militants | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
The east has already been recaptured. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
The massive military operation, Iraq's largest in years, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
has involved tens of thousands of troops, including some British | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Nik Millard were there as Iraqi government troops | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Before the attack, came the rockets and artillery. It's day five of the | :02:13. | :02:37. | |
offensive to retake western Mosul. Slowly, the forces make their way | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
past a suspected IS car bomb, talks en route. These armoured columns are | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
now moving forward to Mosul airport. The attack of the airport is | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
underway. All night, we've heard coalition aircraft and Iraqi | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
artillery slamming this area to the north of us. The onslaught had | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
cleared this village of IS fighters and civilians. It's a really quiet, | :03:03. | :03:16. | |
as the men proceed on foot. A local man tells the special forces there | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
were up to 100 IS here yesterday. They have hidden bombs all over. So | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
the men took to higher ground. And we followed at a safe distance. As | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
the day went on, there was no letup. It's from this factory that IS | :03:41. | :03:53. | |
defended the airport. Their flag flew here yesterday, but no longer. | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
In less than four hours, Iraqi forces had breached the airport | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
barometer, but IS fought back. -- remixer. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
First, a huge roadside bomb which killed an Iraqi officer. Despite the | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
air strikes, IS fighters were still putting up resistance. From the | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
cover of an armoured vehicle, we were able to see the battle ahead. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
There is a gun battle going on at the moment. | :04:38. | :04:54. | |
It was a short battle, but there were no casualties from the front. | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
The more they advance, the more civilians they meet, and they are in | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
a wretched state. These people had hung on during years of Islamic | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
State group rule but, in the midst of this final battle, they were | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
overwhelmed. This man says, they are dead in this house, all dead. My | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
brother has already gone to the camp. He is heartbroken. Six of his | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
family were killed in an air strike. This is the last open ground before | :05:35. | :05:46. | |
west Mosul. The desert and farmland here made for swift progress. Iraqi | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
forces are now less than a mile away from the city. They are also in | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
range of mortars from IS. But it's the Islamic State that is under | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
threat. Mosul airport may be in ruins but, more importantly, it's | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
back in government hands. Over there, it's the Iraqi flag bats | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
flying on the airfield again. This is a landmark moment. Iraqi forces | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
now have the Islamic State group on the run. IS might transform itself | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
into something else but right now, in Iraq, we are witnessing the final | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
days of the caliphate. Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Mosul. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Storm Doris has brought chaos across the UK. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Winds of up to 95 miles per hour have caused one death as a woman | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
was killed by flying debris in Wolverhampton. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Trees have been brought down, taking power lines with them. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Nearly all rail operators have been reporting delays, | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
Planes have been grounded and bridges and roads have been closed. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power. | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
It was late morning when emergency services were called to | :06:53. | :07:06. | |
Wolverhampton city centre. A woman had been hit by flying debris. Her | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
head injuries were so serious, she died at the scene. Hours later, a | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
heavy panel was taken away as an investigation started. Storm Doris | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
swept into Scotland this morning, leaving drivers struggling in snowy | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
conditions, like here, on the auto macro -- A71. The high winds did not | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
stay anywhere for long but they did enough damage on the way, like on | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
this moorland road in Staffordshire. Further south, this railway line | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
near St Albans was closed by a single voluntary. Such scenes were | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
repeated across the rail network. The result was a long, frustrating | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
day for many travellers. This was used and, where West Coast Main Line | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
services ground to a halt. My train has been cancelled so I'm unsure how | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
to get home. I might have to stay an extra night. We didn't know till we | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
got here that all Virgin Trains were cancelled, so we are stranded and we | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
can't get back to Manchester. 145 miles north in Retford, they were | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
very laid back but they knew it could have been worse. Thankful to | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
have got back tonight. Absolutely. Still a lot of people in London. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Yes, it was awful at King's Cross, hundreds of people. I talked to a | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
lady and she got on the 1:10pm train, sat there for an hour and had | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
to get off the train, and she was still in King's Cross at 5pm. Look | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
at the lucky escape a driving instructor had in Spalding this | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
morning. Spare a thought for the bumpy | :08:48. | :09:00. | |
landings endured by air passengers. This was a service coming into | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
Manchester. Storm Doris will be remembered for its southerly track. | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
It is now gone, but certainly not forgotten. | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
Claudio Ranieri has been sacked as Leicester City's manager. | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
Despite guiding the club to what had seemed | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
an impossible dream - Premier League | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
triumph last season - and being voted Fifa's | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
coach of the year, the club's owners tonight | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
dismissed him, citing "long-term interests". | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Leicester's dismal season has left them teetering | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
above the relegation zone, as our Sports Editor | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles, at less than a | :09:33. | :09:49. | |
year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City became one of the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
most unlikely Premier League winners ever, the magnitude of the dream has | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
been dismissed. Leicester City are the Premier League champions! Last | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation. In a statement | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
tonight, the club's vice-chairman said: | :10:07. | :10:22. | |
despite being 5000-1 rank outsiders for the title last season, Ranieri | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
somehow guided his team to a barely believable triumph. Jamie Vardy's | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
goals helped the side window title by ten points and admirers across | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
the world. -- win the title. And Italian deservedly crowned coach of | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
the year. Incredible that it's happened. But this years and -- | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
season the euphoria evaporated, and Leicester are languishing one point | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
above the relegation zone. Manager real loyalty is in notoriously short | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
supply in the Premier League but, given what Ranieri achieved, many | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
will be dismayed. Tonight, former Leicester star Gary Lineker | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
described the dismissal as inexplicable, unforgivable and | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
ducked wrenchingly sad. Ranieri's last game in charge was this 2-1 | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
game against Sofia last night. He was seemingly unaware of his state. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
We know they are better than us, a very high quality team, very | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
experienced. But we have a very big heart. Very big fought. We have each | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
other. And I think we deserve this goal. But it is Leicester's for | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
performances in the Premier League that could see them becoming only | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
the second champion in history to see a title defence ending in | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
relegation, and that is what cost Ranieri his job. The memories of | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
what he achieved will always be treasured but the fairy tale is | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
over. The business of professional | :12:09. | :12:08. | |
football can be brutal but even by those standards this will strike | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
many as very harsh. Ruthless, cut-throat, a number of | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
words you could use. Many people thought Claudio Ranieri would be | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
given at least a full season, an act of loyalty perhaps from grateful | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
owners given the fairy tale success he delivered just nine months ago. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
The fans are perhaps in shock. Saying about the gratitude they head | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
towards Claudio Ranieri. But the owners are worried. They are | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
flirting with relegation. The team is just above the relegation zone, | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
and that would be financially damaging. There is ?9 million of TV | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
revenue to be carved up over the Premier League clubs over the course | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
of three seasons and in sporting terms they want to be fighting among | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
the best. Relegation threatened that. With 13 games left, they are | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
in terrible form. Claudio Ranieri had been described as performing | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
miracles to get Leicester City to that title and it may now need | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
another miracle worker to save their season. | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
The first official figures following last year's EU referendum | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
show a fall in net migration to the UK - the difference | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
between the number of people coming to live here and those leaving. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
It stands at 273,000, down 49,000 on the previous | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
year, though still far above the Government | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
The fall is partly due to Eastern Europeans | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
returning home to countries like Poland and Hungary. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
There's also been a significant fall in overseas student numbers. | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, reports. | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
So you need to cross the wall, the gate, sorry, and on the right | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
hand you will find the Minster Cathedral. | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
Not that there's too much but that there | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
The oldest street in town is Shambles. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
York's tourist industry is booming, now worth a remarkable half | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
a billion pounds a year and supporting a record 20,000 | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
But growth here, as in much of the hospitality industry, | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
In fact, with very low unemployment in York, | :14:08. | :14:26. | |
businesses like this cannot grow or even survive without a supply | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
A quarter of British hospitality businesses say they have | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
currently got vacancies that they are struggling to fill. | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
With the UK labour market close to capacity and the prospect | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
of a squeeze on EU migrant labour, there are real concerns | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
It would create a staffing crisis, to get to a point where we can't | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
fill that resource with a European worker, then there's a big gap | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
For York as an example, there isn't enough of them around. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
The latest figures show a big drop in the numbers coming to work | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
in Britain from countries like Poland, down 16%, Hungary, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
More are coming from Romania, up 11%, and Bulgarian, up 8%. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
But many experts predict those arrivals will | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
Now it is beginning to change to Germany or beginning to learn | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
more German because the UK is beginning to be quite less | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
attractive for young people coming to work. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Contributing to the fall in net migration, the number | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
of international students has dropped significantly | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
since the Brexit vote, with warnings from universities that | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
In the last few days, government ministers have struck | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
The UK will always be a welcoming place for people | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
who want to come here, work here and contribute | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
It's just that there's no support for uncontrolled immigration. | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
Reducing net migration by almost two thirds remains a clear commitment | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
Supporters of the policy say Britain needs to overcome its addiction | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
to cheap migrant labour and train and recruit more home-grown workers. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
But the owner of this Yorkshire carrot farm says he has | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
to employ eastern Europeans because there are simply not | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
My message is very simple to Mrs May. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Take my workers away from me, but you'll take yours out | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
of your health service and your care homes and see how you can | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
run your businesses, because I can't run mine. | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
Cutting immigration may currently enjoy broad public support | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
but turning Britain into a low migration economy | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker is at Westminster. | :16:41. | :16:52. | |
That's the dilemma with falling migration, and the Government | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
appears to be trying to tread a very careful line on it. | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
And interesting that that fall of 49,000 in the net migration figure | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
has been met by a pretty muted response, partly because the ONS, | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
which drew up the statistics, said it was not significant statistically | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
and partly because they say it is too soon to say if it has anything | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
to do with Brexit. But also nobody expects the big change until we are | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
out of the EU and the country no longer has to accept the free | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
movement of EU citizens. Ministers are well aware that many people | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
voted to leave the EU because of concerns about immigration, the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
pressures on local communities and services and so on. But they are | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
also well aware, as you heard in that report, that many companies say | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
they need those EU workers, the agriculture sector said it cannot | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
cope without the seasonal workers, the health service has tens of | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
thousands of staff from across the EU, the universities say they need | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
those foreign students to bring in the funding they need. Ministers | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
still face a big challenge even when we are out of the EU, they are well | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
off that target of net migration down to below 100,000 and there is | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
no clear plan as to how they will achieve that even when we are out of | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
the EU. Thank you. A task force set up to tackle child | :18:20. | :18:20. | |
sex abuse by UN peacekeepers is due to report to member | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
states next week. After a two-year investigation, | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
the new head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, has called | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
for "game-changing" solutions Sexual abuse by some UN peacekeepers | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
has blighted the lives of children In some incidences, they have been | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
accused of raping them Our special report from Fergal Keane | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
and his cameraman Tony Fallshaw This is the story of how | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
international peacekeepers are accused of betraying the trust | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
of some of the world's TRANSLATION: At night | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
it was very cold and the man offered my son a pill, | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
claiming it would warm him. It took my son five | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
minutes to fall asleep. It's the story of children being | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
abused and a culture of impunity. In July 2014 I informed the French | :19:19. | :19:30. | |
government about allegations of French soldiers abusing children | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
in Central African Republic. Nine months after that I was asked | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
by the UN leadership to resign and when I refused to resign, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
I was forced out. The scandal began in late 2013 | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
at this refugee camp, an airport runway where French | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
peacekeepers protected thousands of people | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
and their children from violence They and the UN helped | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
to prevent genocide. But some are accused | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
of becoming sexual predators. TRANSLATION: After the rape | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
he was crying and afraid, but the soldier reassured him | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
and said not to mention They allege the soldier then | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
threatened to stab him TRANSLATION: At first our child | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
tried to avoid us, hardly When I asked why, he explained | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
what had happened. His friends were mocking him | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
because of the rape. Now he takes drugs and won't go | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
to school or socialise The peacekeeping operation | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
was launched by the French but it would soon expand | :20:46. | :20:57. | |
into a full UN mission. As peacekeepers from other | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
nations were deployed, Senior officials were made aware | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
but they are accused of failing to act, apart | :21:04. | :21:17. | |
from one brave individual. Anders Kompass was a senior UN human | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
rights official who, in mid-July 2014, was shown | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
an internal report alleging sexual I remember I went home | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
and I couldn't sleep during that night because I was struggling with, | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
what is it that I can do. At the UN offices in Geneva, | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Kompass approached the country whose soldiers were the first to be | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
accused of abuse. He leaked the report to the French, | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
prompting them to start The UN was furious, | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
claiming his action potentially I was asked to resign for giving | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
this report and the accusation A year after Anders Kompass | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
alerted the authorities, this 14-year-old was approached | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
by a soldier from the Her father was killed in the war | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
and her mother was ill TRANSLATION: Hunger drove my | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
daughter to see the soldier. He gave her money, food rations, | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
and took her to watch videos. The abuse had life | :22:28. | :22:44. | |
altering consequences. The girl became pregnant and was | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
infected with HIV by the soldier. There is no hope, no possibility | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
for my children to go to school I suffer constantly thinking | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
about my children's future. It took another month | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
and the case of this girl, then aged 12, to push the UN | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
leadership into action. UN troops had raided the family home | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
to arrest a close relative. TRANSLATION: They started to bang | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
at the door to shout, United Nations police, | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
get out of here! Her mother told me the girl | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
had become separated She told me there was | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
a man who took her. She showed us the place | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
where it happened. But this incident and the killing | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
of civilians prompted alarm at UN headquarters in New York, | :23:45. | :23:57. | |
after being reported I cannot put into words how | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
anguished and angered The head of mission was sacked, | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
there was a clamp-down on abuse, and a UN report would later harshly | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
criticise senior figures, including the head of human | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
rights on the mission, It said he was one of the top | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
figures, whose failure to intervene exposed children to repeated | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
assaults and stated he had helped But what has happened | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
to Renner Onana? More than a year after being | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
condemned in the UN's own report, he has been promoted and is seen | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
here still working in The UN said Mr Onana would not | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
comment as headquarters It is understood he | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
rejects the allegations. We did speak with his boss, | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
a respected UN veteran, As an organisation, the UN has | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
established rules and procedures and in the case of the individual | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
you just mentioned, the staff member you just mentioned, | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
the process is ongoing whereby he is being allowed to rebut | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the allegations against him and that process hasn't been completed, | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
as far as I'm aware. Do you understand, | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
and you are with the UN a long time, how it looks to the people | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
who are critical of this organisation when you | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
have that situation? Everything that people | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
say about the lack of We have processes and those | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
processes are now being, And it's my strong belief that, | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
at the end of the day Peacekeepers can only be prosecuted | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
by their own countries and while a whole contingent has | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
since been sent home over allegations, there have only been | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
a handful of charges. After two years of investigation, | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
France hasn't charged It's terrible for the credibility | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
and the trust of the United Nations. First of all vis-a-vis the people | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
and the children who have been effected but also to all the people | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
who are inside the United Nations The UN says new peacekeepers | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
face strict controls. Even if there was only | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
one single case left, The hopes of the victims | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
depend on it being kept. Fergal Keane, BBC News, | :26:35. | :26:50. | |
Central African Republic. A brief look at some | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
of the day's other news stories. The fiance of children's | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
author Helen Bailey, who murdered her and dumped her body | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
in a cesspit, has been Ian Stewart was convicted | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
of secretly drugging and suffocating Ms Bailey in a plot | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
to inherit her money. Her body was found under their | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
garage in Hertfordshire last July. The judge said it was "difficult | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
to imagine a more heinous crime". Prisons in England and Wales | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
will expected to reform and rehabilitate offenders, | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
as well as punish them, under new plans to overhaul | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
the prisons system. Other measures presented | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
to Parliament today include to clamp down on the use of drugs | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
and mobile phones in jail. The Justice Secretary said the bill | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
aims to reduce prison CCTV images of the moment | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
a convicted murderer escaped during a hospital visit have been | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
released by police. Shaun Walmsley, 28, was getting | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
into a cab with prison officers when he was sprung | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
from custody by two armed men. Walmsley is described | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
as "highly dangerous". Polls have closed and counting | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
will get underway shortly Both were Labour seats - | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
Copeland in Cumbria Our Deputy Political | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Editor, John Pienaar, There's a lot at stake here, | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
and not just for Labour. An enormous amount at stake. These | :28:08. | :28:21. | |
by-elections can flare up and be forgotten just as quickly but these | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
elections have the capacity to set or resit the mood in British | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
politics. Why? The city of Stoke has been in labour hands since 1935 and | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
so have the Copeland by-election and they ought have been banalities but | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
Labour has had to fight for its life. -- formalities. It has tempted | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
the Ukip new leader Paul Nuttall two chances on here and if he can beat | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
Labour and strike fear into labour seat because the north and Midlands | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
in particular. Paul Nuttall and Ukip have wobbled in recent days, | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
admitting a claim on his website that he lost friends in the | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Hillsborough disaster was wrong and that has given Labour hope they can | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
hang on. Meanwhile, Theresa May and the Tories are watching Ukip and | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
labour in this life or death struggle and they are a mile ahead | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
in the polls and believing that in Copeland they might take that seat. | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
The first win by a governing party in a by-election for 35 years. The | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
voting is going on as you can see, they are stacking up the seat and | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
after an awful day of weather, a lot is at stake and it is not just | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
election hype. Thank you. Thousands of cannabis plants have | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
been discovered by police growing in an underground nuclear bunker | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The crop has an estimated street | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
value of more than ?1 million. Officers say the plants | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
were being grown in 20 large rooms with almost every part | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
of the bunker dedicated to what they described as the "wholesale | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
production" of cannabis. Hidden in the Wiltshire countryside, | :29:47. | :29:48. | |
RGHQ Chilmark, a vast underground bunker built to protect Britain's | :29:49. | :30:00. | |
leaders in a nuclear war. This afternoon, police showed us | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
the vast cannabis growing operation How would you describe | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
what you have discovered here? A huge, massively professional | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
setup, the biggest cannabis factory farm that I've seen in my 25 | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
years of service. To find this in the heart of rural | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
Wiltshire is quite incredible. Each one kitted out with specialist | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
equipment to grow the plants Officers say huge amounts of power | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
have been secretly siphoned Every room has got this | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
setup in it as well. The vents at the top to withdraw | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
all the fumes and take that outside In some of the rooms | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
you see signs of people This was the old canteen, | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
still being used last night, it seems, years after the bunker | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
was sold off by the Three people were arrested inside, | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
including a 15-year-old boy. Three older men were arrested | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
outside on suspicion of human In this room police have found | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
hundreds of bags of old compost and they say that suggests this | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
bunker has been used It is all very different | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
from when the Cold War bunker The site had been under surveillance | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
for some time but officers swooped last night when they saw | :31:26. | :31:33. | |
the doors opening. They say local people had reported | :31:34. | :31:35. | |
suspicious activity and a powerful Newsnight's about to begin over | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
on BBC Two in a few moments. Tonight, a rare interview with one | :31:39. | :31:49. | |
US Supreme Court judge And we're on the ground | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
in the by-election which could reshape the contours | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
of British poliitcs. Here on BBC One, it's time | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
for the news where you are. | :32:06. | :32:08. |