:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at ten, the British people are being sold
:00:08. > :00:11.an unrealistic vision of life after Brexit -
:00:12. > :00:13.the warning from a former Prime Minister.
:00:14. > :00:15.Sir John Major, in his first keynote speech since the referendum,
:00:16. > :00:18.accused Theresa May's government of failing to spell out
:00:19. > :00:22.the complexity and the risks of the Brexit process.
:00:23. > :00:24.Obstacles are brushed aside as if of no consequence,
:00:25. > :00:31.whilst opportunities are inflated beyond any reasonable expectation.
:00:32. > :00:39.A little more charm and a lot less cheap rhetoric
:00:40. > :00:45.would do much to protect the interests of the United Kingdom.
:00:46. > :00:48.We'll have reaction to Sir John's speech, as Downing Street insists
:00:49. > :00:50.the Government is determined to make a success of Brexit.
:00:51. > :00:52.Also tonight, after a long delay, the Independent Inquiry
:00:53. > :00:56.into Child Sexual Abuse finally starts hearing evidence in public.
:00:57. > :01:01.This is not a joke, Moonlight has won best picture.
:01:02. > :01:11.after the biggest mix-up ever seen at the Oscars ceremony.
:01:12. > :01:15.A change to personal-injury compensation
:01:16. > :01:17.will increase car insurance for millions of drivers.
:01:18. > :01:26.their support for the manager sacked last week.
:01:27. > :01:29.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, champions Leicester City
:01:30. > :01:31.shows signs of survival - as life after Ranieri begins,
:01:32. > :01:56.starting with Liverpool in the Premier League tonight.
:01:57. > :02:01.For the second time in a fortnight, a former Prime Minister
:02:02. > :02:03.has warned that the British people are being given
:02:04. > :02:05.an unrealistic vision of life after Brexit.
:02:06. > :02:08.Two weeks ago, it was Labour's Tony Blair.
:02:09. > :02:10.This evening, it was the Conservative Sir John Major,
:02:11. > :02:15.who said the costs of Brexit would be too much for most people.
:02:16. > :02:17.And he warned that Theresa May's approach
:02:18. > :02:21.could lead to a second independence referendum in Scotland.
:02:22. > :02:25.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports.
:02:26. > :02:32.A warning from a former Tory Prime Minister to today's,
:02:33. > :02:34.one whose time in office was tortured by Europe.
:02:35. > :02:38.Sir John Major's message to Theresa May - get real.
:02:39. > :02:40.The British people have been led to expect a future
:02:41. > :02:45.that seems to be unreal and overoptimistic.
:02:46. > :02:47.Obstacles are brushed aside as if of no consequence,
:02:48. > :02:55.beyond any reasonable expectation of delivery.
:02:56. > :02:58.He fears we'll be worse off, less tolerant, more divided,
:02:59. > :03:02.and that the Prime Minister's attitude so far
:03:03. > :03:12.A little more charm and a lot less cheap rhetoric
:03:13. > :03:18.would do much to protect the interests of the United Kingdom.
:03:19. > :03:20.You've accused the Government of misleading people
:03:21. > :03:27.do you think that's deliberate, or is it naive?
:03:28. > :03:29.I wouldn't charge my colleagues with a deliberate attempt
:03:30. > :03:34.The British people voted to come out.
:03:35. > :03:40.They will accept coming out, but I think they do wish to know,
:03:41. > :03:43.and have an absolute right to know, what the difficulties will be,
:03:44. > :03:45.the impediments will be, and how long it will take.
:03:46. > :03:49.Sir John tried and failed to keep us in during the referendum.
:03:50. > :03:54.On the basis of half-truths and untruths...
:03:55. > :03:57...but were, as he himself might have predicted,
:03:58. > :04:04.It was a craven and defeated speech of a bitter man who was
:04:05. > :04:07.heavily defeated by the electorate for his own failings in Europe
:04:08. > :04:11.in 1987 and was defeated again last June and now wishes
:04:12. > :04:18.With Theresa May determined to keep the Tory party together,
:04:19. > :04:21.and Labour struggling to be united, the momentum has been
:04:22. > :04:25.with those celebrating our journey to the exit door.
:04:26. > :04:27.Privately, ministers are increasingly optimistic
:04:28. > :04:30.about doing a deal, but Sir John Major's not the only
:04:31. > :04:38.One senior figure who's been part of some of the talks told me -
:04:39. > :04:41.behind closed doors - some discussions have been
:04:42. > :04:43.shambolic, and raised concerns that the Government are yet
:04:44. > :04:48.to understand the full implications of our decision to leave.
:04:49. > :04:52.A good day for Britain and a good day for Europe.
:04:53. > :04:55.And he knows all too painfully how the
:04:56. > :05:02.implications of European ructions can pan out.
:05:03. > :05:04.Forgive my language, but to use your phrase, will she
:05:05. > :05:09.You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment.
:05:10. > :05:20."When the curtain falls, time to get off the stage," he once said.
:05:21. > :05:22.But this former Prime Minister has found himself still willing to play
:05:23. > :05:34.but first to Glasgow and our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith.
:05:35. > :05:37.Sarah, Sir John warned that Theresa May's Brexit approach
:05:38. > :05:47.could lead to a second independence referendum.
:05:48. > :05:55.He said it was a real risk even if it seems improbable at the moment. I
:05:56. > :05:58.have to say, from here, it doesn't seem improbable at all, it seems a
:05:59. > :06:03.very definite possibility, and it appears that the Prime Minister and
:06:04. > :06:08.now understands that too. The last cabinet meeting was largely
:06:09. > :06:10.dominated by the discussion about avoiding Scottish independence, and
:06:11. > :06:14.Theresa May will be in Glasgow addressing the Scottish Conservative
:06:15. > :06:18.Party on Friday, and she will use her speech there to try to head off
:06:19. > :06:23.demands for another independence referendum. But Nicola Sturgeon has
:06:24. > :06:26.been clear, she will take another referendum off the table only if the
:06:27. > :06:30.UK Government seriously engages with her over her proposals for a
:06:31. > :06:34.different and separate Brexit deal for Scotland. A deal that would
:06:35. > :06:38.allow Scotland to stay within the EU single market as a member of the
:06:39. > :06:41.European Economic Area. But UK Government ministers I've spoken to
:06:42. > :06:44.did they do not sound as though they are ready to meet any of the
:06:45. > :06:51.Scottish Government demands on that before the triggering of Article 50,
:06:52. > :06:54.so when that Article 50 letter is sent some time next month, you can
:06:55. > :06:57.expect a very robust response from next. She'll be addressing her SNP
:06:58. > :07:01.conference in the middle of March, and that could be when she announces
:07:02. > :07:07.the next step towards another referendum on Scottish independence.
:07:08. > :07:10.Sarah, thanks again. Laura, one of the big points made by Sir John
:07:11. > :07:13.tonight was about the timescale, saying ministers needed to be
:07:14. > :07:18.realistic about the Brexit timescale, because it is early days.
:07:19. > :07:21.It is, but we are almost at the end of part one, because by the end of
:07:22. > :07:27.next month Theresa May will have pushed the button on Article 50, the
:07:28. > :07:31.legal mechanism by which we will actually leave. And as that trigger
:07:32. > :07:37.approaches, there is a sense that the first episode post-referendum is
:07:38. > :07:41.in its closing stages, and if you rewind and think, not that long ago
:07:42. > :07:44.the Tory party was knocking lumps out of each other in all of this,
:07:45. > :07:48.the fact that Theresa May has got to the end of part one relatively
:07:49. > :07:53.unscathed is no mean political feat. But I think, you know, whether it is
:07:54. > :07:57.Tony Blair or Sir John Major, there is now, at this stage, as we move
:07:58. > :08:01.towards the first really critical junction, a sense that although she
:08:02. > :08:06.has had a relatively unscathed time of it, the arguments are not over,
:08:07. > :08:11.and whether it is the opposition parties or whether it is former
:08:12. > :08:15.senior statesmen, people who have concerns about how the Government is
:08:16. > :08:18.going about this will not be silenced - despite the climate that
:08:19. > :08:23.there has been in Westminster. And I think as we move towards the end of
:08:24. > :08:27.part one, if you're like, it is becoming clear that parts two,
:08:28. > :08:32.three, four and five will be much harder than these first stages, not
:08:33. > :08:37.least because, of course, 27 other parties get involved. Indeed, Laura,
:08:38. > :08:39.thanks again, Laura Kuenssberg, our political editor.
:08:40. > :08:41.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
:08:42. > :08:42.in England and Wales has finally started
:08:43. > :08:44.hearing evidence, more than two and a half years
:08:45. > :08:46.after it was set up by the Government.
:08:47. > :08:48.The first public sessions are focusing on the abuse
:08:49. > :08:50.of British children who were sent abroad
:08:51. > :08:52.in the decades after the Second World War,
:08:53. > :08:54.as our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports.
:08:55. > :08:57.It might be argued that this inquiry should concentrate
:08:58. > :09:00.on protecting children now, but its first investigation
:09:01. > :09:04.promises to lift the lid on a disturbing period in history,
:09:05. > :09:08.which has resulted in what were described today as decades of pain,
:09:09. > :09:12.still very real to Britain's child migrants in their later years.
:09:13. > :09:15.Now an inquiry with many of the powers of a court
:09:16. > :09:19.is sitting down to the job of understanding why it happened.
:09:20. > :09:21.Child migration programmes were large-scale schemes,
:09:22. > :09:24.in which thousands of children, many of them vulnerable, poor,
:09:25. > :09:26.abandoned, illegitimate or in the care of the state,
:09:27. > :09:28.were systematically and permanently migrated to remote parts
:09:29. > :09:39.ARCHIVE: The liner Asturias arrives at Fremantle from Great Britain
:09:40. > :09:43.with 931 new migrants for this country.
:09:44. > :09:45.We anticipate that you will hear evidence that these children
:09:46. > :09:48.were put on board ships departing from England and Wales without
:09:49. > :09:50.being given any real understanding of where they were going,
:09:51. > :09:53.what they were doing, or why they were being sent.
:09:54. > :09:56.More than 4,000 ended up in farm schools
:09:57. > :09:59.or remote religious institutions, mainly in Australia -
:10:00. > :10:03.physical labour, poor food, mistreatment.
:10:04. > :10:07.But sexual abuse, worst at religious institutions like this one,
:10:08. > :10:09.is what this inquiry is really about.
:10:10. > :10:13.That has never been examined in detail.
:10:14. > :10:16.The inquiry will hear of a crushing catalogue of sexual abuse,
:10:17. > :10:20.deprivation, violence and abusive institutional practices.
:10:21. > :10:24.This man in a suit came to see me and said,
:10:25. > :10:26."Your mother's dead, you know, so how would
:10:27. > :10:30.In 2011, the story of a Nottinghamshire social worker,
:10:31. > :10:33.Margaret Humphreys' battle to uncover the scandal
:10:34. > :10:39.She has campaigned for 30 years for today's hearings.
:10:40. > :10:42.We want to know what's happened, we want to know who did it,
:10:43. > :10:45.and we want to know who covered it up for so long.
:10:46. > :10:50.There are consequences for children today.
:10:51. > :10:56.But this is just the start of something bigger.
:10:57. > :10:59.in Lambeth and Nottinghamshire children homes, schools in Rochdale,
:11:00. > :11:01.custodial institutions, residential schools,
:11:02. > :11:05.and both the Anglican and Catholic Churches.
:11:06. > :11:09.Yet resignations and controversy have delayed this work.
:11:10. > :11:12.And today there was another untimely embarrassment,
:11:13. > :11:15.the inquiry sent out an e-mail in which it was possible
:11:16. > :11:17.to read the e-mail addresses of everyone who received it,
:11:18. > :11:21.including some people who have been sexually abused
:11:22. > :11:30.The inquiry has had to report itself to the Information Commissioner.
:11:31. > :11:33.These are the very people that we're supposed to be relying on
:11:34. > :11:35.to keep our data safe, especially the details about our abuse.
:11:36. > :11:39.And so it has made some survivors very worried.
:11:40. > :11:44.And it distracts from the inquiry's real work...
:11:45. > :11:48.with guilt, shame, diminished self-confidence,
:11:49. > :11:57.Tom Symonds, BBC News, at the child abuse inquiry.
:11:58. > :11:59.The accountancy firm responsible for overseeing
:12:00. > :12:01.the results at the Oscars is investigating the mistake
:12:02. > :12:05.which led to the wrong film being named as Best Picture.
:12:06. > :12:08.The producers of the musical La La Land were already
:12:09. > :12:11.delivering their acceptance speeches when the error was acknowledged
:12:12. > :12:14.and Moonlight was revealed as the real winner.
:12:15. > :12:16.PricewaterhouseCoopers has apologised for the mix-up.
:12:17. > :12:23.Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, reports from Los Angeles.
:12:24. > :12:28.It was supposed to be the grand finale of a wonderful Oscars night.
:12:29. > :12:31.Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde 50 years ago,
:12:32. > :12:37.come on to present the prestigious Best Picture Academy Award.
:12:38. > :12:40.The veteran actor opens the all-important envelope
:12:41. > :12:45.and pulls out the card on which a winner's name is written.
:12:46. > :12:54.The Academy Award... And then a bit perplexed.
:12:55. > :12:58.The drums are rolling. ..for Best Picture.
:12:59. > :13:01.Faye Dunaway thinks he's playing for laughs.
:13:02. > :13:09.So it's hugs all round from the La La Land crew,
:13:10. > :13:12.as the team behind the feel-good musical homage to Hollywood
:13:13. > :13:18.An emotional Jordan Horowitz, the film's producer,
:13:19. > :13:20.effusively thanks friends and family.
:13:21. > :13:26.As the acceptance speeches continue, a small commotion develops.
:13:27. > :13:31.Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture.
:13:32. > :13:35.This is not a joke - Moonlight has won Best Picture.
:13:36. > :13:43.The team from Moonlight, a coming-of-age drama
:13:44. > :13:47.set in the mean streets of Miami, are delighted and bemused.
:13:48. > :13:57.I opened the envelope, and it said, "Emma Stone, La La Land".
:13:58. > :14:02.That's why I took such a long look at Faye and at you.
:14:03. > :14:10.He had been given the wrong envelope.
:14:11. > :14:12.You see, there are duplicate sets of winners' envelopes
:14:13. > :14:16.produced by the two Oscar auditors from accountancy practice PwC,
:14:17. > :14:18.a firm that has been overseeing the Academy Awards
:14:19. > :14:22.Within hours, PwC released a statement,
:14:23. > :14:28.you make a movie, a boom dips into the shot,
:14:29. > :14:32.So whatever happened, I still don't know what happened, it happened,
:14:33. > :14:36.We've all hugged it out, the two camps,
:14:37. > :14:38.and we're good, we'll wake up tomorrow...
:14:39. > :14:42.but tomorrow we'll figure out what happened.
:14:43. > :14:48.The night was memorable for other, less calamitous reasons.
:14:49. > :14:50.Moonlight's success wasn't just limited to Best Picture.
:14:51. > :14:53.Mahershala Ali was recognised for his supporting role
:14:54. > :14:56.and duly became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar.
:14:57. > :14:59.La La Land might have rather publically missed
:15:00. > :15:05.but Damien Chazelle won Best Director,
:15:06. > :15:07.becoming the youngest person to win that category.
:15:08. > :15:17.Casey Affleck picked up the leading actor Oscar for playing a broken man
:15:18. > :15:19.in the film Manchester By The Sea - he was thrilled.
:15:20. > :15:21.Denzel Washington, who had also been nominated,
:15:22. > :15:25.One of the first people who taught me how to act
:15:26. > :15:28.and I just met him tonight for the first time.
:15:29. > :15:32.Viola Davis's supporting actress triumph
:15:33. > :15:35.was another win that helped the Oscars
:15:36. > :15:48.We can join will live in Los Angeles. Plenty of attention to the
:15:49. > :15:52.mix-up. Tell us a bit more about what you thought about the winners
:15:53. > :15:57.themselves and the awards? It's true, this will always be the
:15:58. > :16:00.Oscars where there was a mix-up. There's a certain irony in La La
:16:01. > :16:02.Land, a film that plays with the idea of two endings having a
:16:03. > :16:07.situation like that at the Oscars. The truth of the matter is, I just
:16:08. > :16:13.wonder if there's a shift in tone the Academy members about La La
:16:14. > :16:15.Land. It was opposed to be the shoo-in, the record-breaking year
:16:16. > :16:21.for this musical, this fantasy about Hollywood. But it was Moonlight that
:16:22. > :16:25.won, about the tough streets of Miami, tells the story of the
:16:26. > :16:30.coming-of-age of a young, black poor guy who's brought up, helped by a
:16:31. > :16:37.drug dealer. A much harder tale. I just think the voters thought in
:16:38. > :16:43.this time and space, this strange time in this country, La La Land was
:16:44. > :16:45.too frivolous and Moonlight told the sort of important story Americans
:16:46. > :16:51.feel needs to be highlighted at the moment. Will, thanks very much. Will
:16:52. > :16:53.Lombaerts with the latest on the Oscars in Hollywood.
:16:54. > :16:56.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories...
:16:57. > :16:59.The Government says there's no evidence that the safety of patients
:17:00. > :17:01.has been put at risk, after more than 700,000
:17:02. > :17:03.NHS documents were mistakenly put in storage,
:17:04. > :17:09.instead of being sent to GPs or patients.
:17:10. > :17:11.A private mail direction company was held responsible for the error.
:17:12. > :17:13.The Government is facing calls from Conservative
:17:14. > :17:16.MPs to scrap plans to limit access to a key
:17:17. > :17:20.Changes to the rules on who qualifies for
:17:21. > :17:21.Personal Independence Payments could affect more than
:17:22. > :17:28.Downing Street has insisted that "nobody is losing out"
:17:29. > :17:34.Crewe Alexandra's Director of Football, Dario Gradi,
:17:35. > :17:42.is to appeal against his suspension from working in the game.
:17:43. > :17:44.He was suspended by the FA in November, following claims he'd
:17:45. > :17:46."smoothed over" an allegation of sexual abuse involving a youth
:17:47. > :17:49.team player while he was coaching at Chelsea in the 1970s.
:17:50. > :17:52.Gradi has always denied any wrongdoing.
:17:53. > :17:55.The BBC has ordered an investigation into the conduct of TV
:17:56. > :17:57.licence fee collectors - the private company Capita -
:17:58. > :18:01.following reports they targeted vulnerable people who hadn't paid.
:18:02. > :18:04.The BBC's Director General Tony Hall, has written to the firm
:18:05. > :18:15.Insurance premiums are set to rise, in some cases significantly,
:18:16. > :18:17.as a result of a new government ruling.
:18:18. > :18:19.A new formula for calculating payments for those who suffer
:18:20. > :18:22.long-term injuries has been produced as a result of low interest rates.
:18:23. > :18:25.The average car insurance policy could rise by ?75 a year,
:18:26. > :18:27.as our personal finance correspondent Simon
:18:28. > :18:33.Compensation is a lifeline for people like Tom,
:18:34. > :18:37.awarded ?1.5 million after losing a leg in an accident at work.
:18:38. > :18:40.Tom thinks it's right that victims should get more to pay
:18:41. > :18:50.This prosthetic's amazing, but it's nowhere near a human leg.
:18:51. > :18:55.These legs are top of the range legs at ?70,000 each.
:18:56. > :18:58.Whether it's from an industrial accident or from a car accident,
:18:59. > :19:02.insurers have been able to keep down the lump sum they pay
:19:03. > :19:04.victims by saying, well, they can invest it and make
:19:05. > :19:08.But now the Government's saying in these days
:19:09. > :19:10.of very low interest rates, they'll have to assume that people
:19:11. > :19:13.will make less than nothing from year to year out
:19:14. > :19:15.of their compensation, and that means insurers having
:19:16. > :19:22.They've known this was coming down the track.
:19:23. > :19:25.They failed to put the money aside and anticipate that risk,
:19:26. > :19:28.and they are now suffering the consequences of that.
:19:29. > :19:32.Instead of putting the money to one side, they paid it out in dividends,
:19:33. > :19:39.Insurers gave an example of a 30-year-old who needed to be
:19:40. > :19:45.looked looked after permanently, who'd get a ?3.4 million payment
:19:46. > :19:47.now - a sum which would more than double under
:19:48. > :19:51.They warn to cover the cost, the typical comprehensive motor
:19:52. > :19:53.policy of ?450 would rise by ?75, with bigger increases
:19:54. > :20:01.Liz Truss, the Lord Chancellor, said by law she had to make the change,
:20:02. > :20:05.but the Insurers' Association said it was a reckless move.
:20:06. > :20:07.This is a crazy decision by the Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss,
:20:08. > :20:10.which is likely to lead to significantly increased premiums
:20:11. > :20:13.for motorists and businesses, through no fault of their own,
:20:14. > :20:16.because of her use of a broken formula which needs
:20:17. > :20:24.It will have to pay ?1 billion more each year in compensation
:20:25. > :20:26.for medical negligence - a bill the Government
:20:27. > :20:31.So, should drivers, hospitals and employers pay more so accident
:20:32. > :20:35.Ministers have promised a consultation before Easter
:20:36. > :20:37.on whether the rules should be reformed.
:20:38. > :20:47.Children living in deprived areas are far more likely
:20:48. > :20:50.to end up in care - that's the finding of new research
:20:51. > :20:52.undertaken by seven British universities.
:20:53. > :20:54.The study found that children in the most deprived neighbourhoods
:20:55. > :20:59.in the UK are at least 10 times more likely to be in care, or viewed
:21:00. > :21:02.as being at risk, than children in the most affluent areas.
:21:03. > :21:06.In England, that means one child in every 60 in a deprived area
:21:07. > :21:08.is in the child protection system - compared with one in
:21:09. > :21:14.Our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt has this
:21:15. > :21:21.A childhood where poverty is everyday, where family struggle
:21:22. > :21:26.and sometimes fail to keep a roof over their heads.
:21:27. > :21:31.According to today's study, in the UK's most deprived
:21:32. > :21:35.neighbourhoods, a child is far more likely to end up in the care system,
:21:36. > :21:37.with social workers focused on protecting them, having little
:21:38. > :21:45.Annie had four of her five children taken into care after a breakdown.
:21:46. > :21:49.She fought to get them back and now writes a blog to advise others.
:21:50. > :21:51.She believes if she'd had helped to deal with the financial
:21:52. > :21:55.pressures, it would have made a huge difference.
:21:56. > :21:58.When you have to choose between putting gas on the meter
:21:59. > :22:00.or eating, which I had to do, it's...
:22:01. > :22:04.If you haven't been there, you can't possibly understand
:22:05. > :22:10.If you then have somebody coming in, judging that action
:22:11. > :22:12.or judging your parenting, it's like a pressure cooker,
:22:13. > :22:20.The study says across the UK, children living in the most deprived
:22:21. > :22:24.neighbourhoods are ten times more likely to be taken into care or be
:22:25. > :22:26.put on child protection plans than those living
:22:27. > :22:32.Despite that, the researchers found the impact of that poverty was often
:22:33. > :22:41.The man who led the research says cuts to council budgets mean fewer
:22:42. > :22:46.early intervention services, but authorities are facing
:22:47. > :22:48.increasing demand from families needing help and more children
:22:49. > :22:54.What's happened against the background of those cuts,
:22:55. > :22:59.is that a larger proportion of the money that children's
:23:00. > :23:02.services spend has gone on looked after children,
:23:03. > :23:05.and that has eaten further into the money for supporting families.
:23:06. > :23:08.So that balance between identifying children at risk and supporting
:23:09. > :23:13.families, has tilted further under austerity.
:23:14. > :23:16.To keep children with their families safely where ever they live,
:23:17. > :23:18.the research underlines the importance of
:23:19. > :23:25.Martin Dixon is from a church charity which works with families
:23:26. > :23:32.Every family goes through times of crisis, but when poor
:23:33. > :23:34.and socially isolated families go through crisis, it can very quickly
:23:35. > :23:38.turn to chaos and for too many that chaos means the kids end up
:23:39. > :23:41.To save families, amazing volunteers just get alongside families
:23:42. > :23:44.at that point of crisis, it provides a very simple early
:23:45. > :23:46.intervention, but it's very effective and the result is better
:23:47. > :23:53.But councils warn ever-increasing demand and their financial pressures
:23:54. > :23:56.are putting their ability to step in to prevent problems in jeopardy.
:23:57. > :23:58.The Government says its strengthening laws to protect
:23:59. > :24:00.children and working to reduce inequality.
:24:01. > :24:10.President Trump has announced he wants to increase US defence
:24:11. > :24:13.spending by $54 billion, in what he's calling "One
:24:14. > :24:16.of the greatest military buildups in American history".
:24:17. > :24:20.He told a gathering of state governors at the White House
:24:21. > :24:22.that he wanted to "rebuild the depleted military
:24:23. > :24:26.Live to the White House and our North America
:24:27. > :24:36.Tell us more about these defence plans on what they could mean for
:24:37. > :24:40.other spending? This would lead to the kind of sharp
:24:41. > :24:45.increase in defence spending we saw at the beginning of the Reagan
:24:46. > :24:48.presidency. Trump officials are saying that money would be spent on
:24:49. > :24:52.increasing US ground troops, boosting the size of the US Navy,
:24:53. > :25:00.giving America more robust presence in places like Iran and the South
:25:01. > :25:03.China Sea, where Beijing is looking to protect its power, another
:25:04. > :25:09.potential flash point. How are they going to pay for this? They are
:25:10. > :25:12.saying they are going to slash State Department funding, international
:25:13. > :25:15.aid and funding for government bodies like the environmental
:25:16. > :25:20.protection Agency. The question is, can they get it through Congress?
:25:21. > :25:24.These proposals will please Republican defence hawks who believe
:25:25. > :25:30.the US military is badly depleted, but not Republican deficit hawks who
:25:31. > :25:33.want to bring down the deficit. It sets up a showdown are many people
:25:34. > :25:36.think that's a showdown that Donald Trump would lose. Thank you for the
:25:37. > :25:42.latest there at the White House. In three weeks' time Dutch voters
:25:43. > :25:45.will vote in a general election, and the controversial far-right
:25:46. > :25:47.politician Geert Wilders says he's confident of making
:25:48. > :25:48.significant progress. He launched his launched campaign
:25:49. > :25:52.a few days ago and the latest polls suggest he's currently in the lead -
:25:53. > :25:54.standing on an anti-immigrant, Our Europe correspondent
:25:55. > :25:58.Damian Grammaticas has been Ringed by security because he's had
:25:59. > :26:05.death threats - Geert Wilders, He was, as ever,
:26:06. > :26:18.courting controversy. There is a lot of Moroccan scum
:26:19. > :26:21.in Holland, who makes He's now suspended such public
:26:22. > :26:25.events over safety fears, Still, he's monopolising
:26:26. > :26:32.attention in this election. What Geert Wilders has managed to do
:26:33. > :26:36.is to shift this election to be about issues he cares about,
:26:37. > :26:38.populist ones; immigration, When he spoke to us,
:26:39. > :26:41.his playbook echoed the Brexit Give the Netherlands back
:26:42. > :26:46.to the Dutch people. Make sure that they
:26:47. > :26:50.get the best deal. Don't spend billions
:26:51. > :26:55.to people who come here. Surprisingly, among his
:26:56. > :26:57.supporters we found Marianna, A lot of people call him a racist,
:26:58. > :27:03.but he's not a racist, because he said if you're
:27:04. > :27:06.a foreigner you can stay here, And traditional left-wing voters
:27:07. > :27:11.are split about him. I really want to cry
:27:12. > :27:15.out what I think. That's what I vote for,
:27:16. > :27:20.and that's what it should be. He says he wants to make
:27:21. > :27:23.the Netherlands great again. It's the same populist ideas,
:27:24. > :27:33.the same fear, he tries to win votes So beneath the surface,
:27:34. > :27:41.the Netherlands is changing. Wilders could win
:27:42. > :27:43.perhaps 20% of the vote. The established parties under threat
:27:44. > :27:47.are having to react. The most dramatic intervention
:27:48. > :27:53.in the campaign so far, a newspaper advertisement
:27:54. > :27:56.by the Prime Minister, telling immigrants here
:27:57. > :27:58.to fit in or go home, It's shocked many
:27:59. > :28:05.in the Netherlands. That's because Prime Minister Rutte
:28:06. > :28:08.is a liberal, his instincts towards openness and tolerance now
:28:09. > :28:13.giving way to something new. The election's only
:28:14. > :28:17.about integration in this country and people coming
:28:18. > :28:23.from outside and refugees. And the elections will
:28:24. > :28:27.be about stability. So he's moving towards Wilders'
:28:28. > :28:30.position, but says he'll At the same time, Dutch
:28:31. > :28:39.politics is splintering - 28 different parties are out
:28:40. > :28:44.competing for votes. What's certain is no one will win
:28:45. > :28:47.an outright majority, and for most, Wilders is simply too toxic to go
:28:48. > :28:53.into coalition with. They'd rather team
:28:54. > :28:56.up to keep him out. So his populist surge may be rising,
:28:57. > :28:59.but he may well find his Damian Grammaticus,
:29:00. > :29:06.BBC News, The Hague. Leicester City were in action
:29:07. > :29:09.against Liverpool tonight - their first match since the sacking
:29:10. > :29:12.of Claudio Ranieri - and some fans made a point
:29:13. > :29:14.of expressing their anger over Match of the Day is here on BBC One
:29:15. > :29:21.later, so if you are trying to avoid the result,
:29:22. > :29:23.you might want to avoid this He might have gone
:29:24. > :29:32.but he was everywhere, a wealth of tributes
:29:33. > :29:36.to Claudio Ranieri, but as the Leicester fans flocked
:29:37. > :29:45.with songs and flags, the anger at their hero's sacking
:29:46. > :29:48.was still plain to see. I feel let down by
:29:49. > :29:50.the club, to be honest. I'm very sad he's gone,
:29:51. > :29:53.and if he ever gets to see this, thank you Claudio, you'll be forever
:29:54. > :29:55.in our hearts. There's no loyalty
:29:56. > :29:59.in football any more. The man brought them the league,
:30:00. > :30:05.a miracle, and they just dumped him. The fans' fury been aimed
:30:06. > :30:08.at the club's Thai owners So the big question,
:30:09. > :30:12.what reception would they get? No boos, just warm applause - some
:30:13. > :30:15.loyalties were still very clear, but this was largely
:30:16. > :30:17.a display of unity. Could it now inspire
:30:18. > :30:19.them against Liverpool? Leicester took a 3-0 lead before,
:30:20. > :30:26.as one, the fans rose Leicester duly held
:30:27. > :30:38.on for a sorely needed win. After a tumultuous week,
:30:39. > :30:53.at last, once again, Yes, Leicester ended up winning 3-1,
:30:54. > :30:59.including two goals for Jamie Vardy. It is Leicester's first league win
:31:00. > :31:02.of 2017 and lift them out of the relegation zone. As for the fans,
:31:03. > :31:06.their affection for Claudio Ranieri is still very clear indeed, but the
:31:07. > :31:10.owners, they will be breathing something of a sigh of relief. If
:31:11. > :31:14.Leicester can now stay in the Premier League, Dell argue all the
:31:15. > :31:17.turmoil of the last few days has been worth it. -- they will argue.
:31:18. > :31:20.Thank you. Andy Swiss. Newsnight's about to begin over
:31:21. > :31:23.on BBC Two in a few moments. On Newsnight tonight -
:31:24. > :31:26.the political backlash to that Iain Duncan Smith tells me
:31:27. > :31:31.the former Prime Minister sounds