:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at ten, the government suffers a second defeat
:00:09. > :00:12.on its Brexit Bill in the House of Lords.
:00:13. > :00:14.In a tense three-hour debate in a packed chamber,
:00:15. > :00:16.peers eventually voted for a 'meaningful'
:00:17. > :00:21.parliamentary vote on the final deal to leave the EU.
:00:22. > :00:30.Not contents, 268, so the contents have it.
:00:31. > :00:32.The onlookers from the Commons included Brexit ministers,
:00:33. > :00:42.It ensures that Parliament has the critical role in determining
:00:43. > :00:49.the future that we will bequeath to generations of young people.
:00:50. > :00:51.This house is absolutely full of people who still haven't come
:00:52. > :00:56.to terms with the results of the referendum.
:00:57. > :00:58.We'll be asking how the vote could affect the Prime
:00:59. > :01:03.Theresa May sticks to her plans for a new generation
:01:04. > :01:07.The funding is set out in tomorrow's Budget.
:01:08. > :01:09.BMW raises doubts about producing its new electric version
:01:10. > :01:17.We talk to Amal Clooney about her legal battle on behalf
:01:18. > :01:24.And the pressure mounts for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal
:01:25. > :01:28.We talk to Amal Clooney about her legal battle on behalf
:01:29. > :01:30.And the pressure mounts for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal
:01:31. > :01:32.are heavily beaten again in the Champions League.
:01:33. > :01:35.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Arsenal's last match in Europe this
:01:36. > :01:56.season as Bayern Munich knock them out of the Champions league again.
:01:57. > :02:01.The government has suffered a second defeat on its Brexit Bill
:02:02. > :02:04.Peers are insisting on what they call a 'meaningful'
:02:05. > :02:07.parliamentary vote on the final deal to leave the EU.
:02:08. > :02:09.The government will now try to overturn the changes
:02:10. > :02:12.Ministers accused some in the Lords of trying
:02:13. > :02:23.Theresa May is still hoping to start the formal leaving process
:02:24. > :02:26.by the end of the month, as our Political Editor,
:02:27. > :02:31.They are not universally loved, but the House of Lords won't let
:02:32. > :02:38.Defeating the Government for the second time
:02:39. > :02:52.With the biggest turnout for nearly 200
:02:53. > :02:56.REPORTER: Do you think Parliament should have a
:02:57. > :03:02.Ministers are determined not to give in.
:03:03. > :03:04.They've promised Parliament already a say on
:03:05. > :03:11.But arguments for a legal guarantee of a vote won
:03:12. > :03:13.the day in the Lords, a desire even
:03:14. > :03:15.if Theresa May and her ministers,
:03:16. > :03:17.look who was watching on, want to
:03:18. > :03:22.When it comes to our rights, Parliament
:03:23. > :03:29.The reason is simple, we don't trust
:03:30. > :03:34.This country's future should rest with
:03:35. > :03:37.But the Government's supporters
:03:38. > :03:45.Does the noble Lord not agree that this new clause
:03:46. > :03:48.in effect, gives this in House a statutory veto on the
:03:49. > :03:51.decision made by the Prime Minister
:03:52. > :03:52.with the support of the other
:03:53. > :03:54.place to implement the decision
:03:55. > :03:56.of the British people to leave
:03:57. > :04:05.the European Union?
:04:06. > :04:11.This House is full of people who still haven't come
:04:12. > :04:13.to terms with the results in the referendum and this
:04:14. > :04:14.is a clever lawyers confection
:04:15. > :04:16.in order to reverse the results
:04:17. > :04:19.With 13 Tories rebels on their side, Labour in the Lords
:04:20. > :04:23.It would be completely irresponsible for Parliament to say,
:04:24. > :04:25.bye, bye, Theresa May, we're waving you off,
:04:26. > :04:26.come back in two years and
:04:27. > :04:29.This actually makes sure the Government
:04:30. > :04:31.works with Parliament to get the best deal we possibly can.
:04:32. > :04:34.But just like this, next week the Bill will
:04:35. > :04:37.make its way down from the red and gold corridors to the green and
:04:38. > :04:40.Will ministers budge or will Conservative
:04:41. > :04:48.I will continue to believe that that is the right thing to,
:04:49. > :04:51.do for there to be a vote in both Houses, deal or no deal.
:04:52. > :04:59.If I have to vote against my Government again, I will do it.
:05:00. > :05:02.We've discussed and debated both of these issues before,
:05:03. > :05:04.at length and we still decline to accept the
:05:05. > :05:06.amendments that have been passed in the House of Lords.
:05:07. > :05:11.They've come up with no new ideas so I expect the House
:05:12. > :05:15.of Commons to pass the Bill unamended.
:05:16. > :05:19.There's no sign Theresa May will relent to keep rebels at bay.
:05:20. > :05:23.It may be brave to stand her ground, but she may have to find the
:05:24. > :05:35.This was a big defeat, the joke among Labour wax tonight in the
:05:36. > :05:40.House of Lords is that with the Tory Duke of Wellington on their side in
:05:41. > :05:45.this vote, it could be Theresa May's Waterloo. What happens next will be
:05:46. > :05:48.determined by who wins a face-off between a relatively small group of
:05:49. > :05:52.Tories who are adamant that they want this to be part of the process
:05:53. > :05:57.and Theresa May and her ministers on the other side who, right now, are
:05:58. > :06:02.absolutely clear they will not give an inch. The way things feel at the
:06:03. > :06:07.moment, it is going to be pretty tight. It is just too difficult with
:06:08. > :06:11.a week before the next vote to determine who is going to have
:06:12. > :06:17.victory. The big picture, this will not delay Brexit, it will not stop
:06:18. > :06:22.it, certainly, because Theresa May still has three weeks to get this
:06:23. > :06:25.Parliamentary wrangling out of the weights for sheep meat her own
:06:26. > :06:28.self-imposed deadline of getting Brexit started by the end of March
:06:29. > :06:33.-- out of the way before she meets. And Laura will be back with us
:06:34. > :06:37.in a moment to talk about tomorrow's Budget which will include money
:06:38. > :06:39.for new grammar schools in England. They'll be among 140 free schools
:06:40. > :06:43.set up with a fund of ?320 million. Labour says the plan is a 'vanity
:06:44. > :06:45.project' and insists many other schools are in desperate
:06:46. > :06:47.need of money. The plans also face opposition
:06:48. > :06:49.from some with Conservative MPs, as our Education Editor,
:06:50. > :06:56.Branwen Jeffreys, reports. Before the number crunching
:06:57. > :06:59.of the Budget, a visit A little extra money
:07:00. > :07:05.for her education priorities, a signal to schools generally not
:07:06. > :07:09.to hope for more. We have protected the core schools
:07:10. > :07:13.budget, but, crucially, what we are announcing is half
:07:14. > :07:16.a billion pounds of investment in schools, ?320 million
:07:17. > :07:19.of which will be new schools. That will create around
:07:20. > :07:22.70,000 new school places. More maths schools
:07:23. > :07:26.are part of her plans. This is not a grammar -
:07:27. > :07:29.pupils are selected, but at the age of 16,
:07:30. > :07:31.then pushed to get We know that what we've done
:07:32. > :07:38.here for students who have this interest in mathematics
:07:39. > :07:39.and the mathematical sciences has enabled
:07:40. > :07:43.transformation of those students, different futures, better futures
:07:44. > :07:45.for them and therefore better And so having more schools
:07:46. > :07:50.like that is exactly Education is all about creating
:07:51. > :07:53.a sense of opportunity, the hope that what your children
:07:54. > :07:56.learn will give them a better And that's what the Prime Minister
:07:57. > :08:01.is trying to tap into at a time when This is all about the politics
:08:02. > :08:09.now and very little Schools across England face
:08:10. > :08:14.financial pressures, falling funding per pupil and no
:08:15. > :08:22.promise of help in the budget. The government spending plans don't
:08:23. > :08:25.begin to address the real We have buildings that are falling
:08:26. > :08:30.down, we have a teacher recruitment and retention crisis,
:08:31. > :08:32.we can't get enough teachers into the classroom and we can't
:08:33. > :08:37.get them to stay there. Some of the new money could be used
:08:38. > :08:40.to set up grammar schools so what happens to grammar
:08:41. > :08:44.school places now? Only 3% of pupils are
:08:45. > :08:48.on free school meals. 13% are thought to come
:08:49. > :08:51.from private prep schools. And just 73 out of 163 grammar
:08:52. > :08:54.schools give priority to poorer That's why plans for new grammar
:08:55. > :09:04.schools face stiff opposition. There is a legal ban on creating
:09:05. > :09:08.new ones in England. More free schools are likely to open
:09:09. > :09:13.before the first new grammar. In the next wave I don't think
:09:14. > :09:16.there will be any grammars either because I think it'll take
:09:17. > :09:19.a while for the government It will be in the wave
:09:20. > :09:22.after that, next year, maybe the year after that,
:09:23. > :09:25.that we are likely to see some grammars being approved,
:09:26. > :09:27.if the ban is lifted, but I can't see them
:09:28. > :09:31.opening before 2020. Traditional values and excellence,
:09:32. > :09:33.for some that is what But others fear this is opportunity
:09:34. > :09:39.for the few, not the many. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, will
:09:40. > :09:46.deliver his first Budget tomorrow. It's also the first Budget
:09:47. > :09:48.since last year's EU referendum. There are growing calls for him
:09:49. > :09:52.to allocate more money to social care in England and to help firms
:09:53. > :09:56.cope with business rate rises. The efforts to balance
:09:57. > :09:58.the government's books are far from over and,
:09:59. > :10:01.as our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, explains,
:10:02. > :10:03.the age of austerity is likely to be On one side Gateshead,
:10:04. > :10:12.the other Newcastle - the front line in the battle to fix
:10:13. > :10:14.the economy since One example, local parks are now
:10:15. > :10:22.paid for out of the health budget The economy locally has grown,
:10:23. > :10:28.but below the national average, And if people here thought austerity
:10:29. > :10:34.was over, it's probably This Budget will be
:10:35. > :10:39.all about the deficit, that's the difference
:10:40. > :10:41.between what the Government spends And to bridge that gap it borrows
:10:42. > :10:48.and, just like a credit This year the deficit is predicted
:10:49. > :10:57.to be ?68.2 billion. For comparison, it costs
:10:58. > :10:59.about ?100 billion to run The Government wants that figure
:11:00. > :11:09.to fall every year until 2021, when it wants the figure
:11:10. > :11:15.to be ?20.7 billion. Those borrowing figures are expected
:11:16. > :11:18.to look better tomorrow because the economy has grown faster
:11:19. > :11:21.than forecast, but there is no The Government is still committed
:11:22. > :11:27.to reducing spending, The department that funds local
:11:28. > :11:33.government in England will see its budget cut,
:11:34. > :11:38.by 2021, by 24%. The Justice Department,
:11:39. > :11:41.which funds courts and prisons, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
:11:42. > :11:50.will also see reductions. Northern Ireland will see
:11:51. > :11:52.the highest, at 3%. Some departments, though,
:11:53. > :11:55.will be supported. The Department for
:11:56. > :11:58.International Development, which spends on overseas aid,
:11:59. > :12:03.will see its budget rise by 17%. Health in England will also
:12:04. > :12:06.see its budget rise by ?1.5% and education will see less
:12:07. > :12:11.of a reduction than other departments, just 2.2%,
:12:12. > :12:13.and the schools' budget When it comes to our taxes,
:12:14. > :12:22.the Government has already announced Well, the Government has got rather
:12:23. > :12:32.good at taxing less visible areas. For example, the taxes paid
:12:33. > :12:36.on dividends from shares people might own is going to raise more
:12:37. > :12:41.money, an extra ?2.8 billion. And taxes on insurance
:12:42. > :12:44.policies are also going up and that's going to raise
:12:45. > :12:49.an extra ?700 million. And stamp duty, that's the tax
:12:50. > :12:52.we pay on buying a house, The grand message of the Budget -
:12:53. > :13:02.that there are still risks ahead, The Treasury wants to use tomorrow
:13:03. > :13:09.to prepare for the future, warning that now is not the time
:13:10. > :13:23.to end austerity. On the eve of the Budget we can go
:13:24. > :13:28.back to Laura Kuenssberg in Westminster. How do you see the task
:13:29. > :13:32.for Phillip Hammond tomorrow? Very difficult, he is somebody who is
:13:33. > :13:35.known to be fond of spreadsheets, somebody who is a believer very much
:13:36. > :13:39.in a Conservative Treasury so I think we would be wrong to looking
:13:40. > :13:44.for big, flashy, bold moves tomorrow. There are three things
:13:45. > :13:49.were looking out for. As we have heard, the Budget is still extremely
:13:50. > :13:59.tight, there are cuts to come with human consequences. Secondly, we
:14:00. > :14:01.know the Treasury is still very cautious about the prospects as we
:14:02. > :14:04.move towards Brexit and beyond and I think we will see him want to keep
:14:05. > :14:07.some of his spending power back rather than committing it all with
:14:08. > :14:10.the future so unclear. Thirdly it will be important and fascinating to
:14:11. > :14:14.be on the hunt for clues as to what Philip Hammond wants to do in the
:14:15. > :14:18.long term. Whether that is finding a solution for the social care crisis
:14:19. > :14:22.or building a more dynamic economy, whether with skills or better
:14:23. > :14:26.schools, I think there will be an emerging picture of what he really
:14:27. > :14:30.wants to do in the long term, especially and partly because we are
:14:31. > :14:36.in such an uncertain world right now. Thank you, Laura Kuenssberg
:14:37. > :14:37.with the latest on the eve of the Budget at Westminster.
:14:38. > :14:40.The website Wikileaks has published thousands of pages of what it says
:14:41. > :14:44.The documents appear to reveal attempts by the American spy agency
:14:45. > :14:46.to use household gadgets such as televisions with an internet
:14:47. > :14:47.connection to eavesdrop on people's conversations.
:14:48. > :14:49.But the material has not been independently verified.
:14:50. > :14:58.With me is our security correspondent, Gordon Corera.
:14:59. > :15:04.What do you make of it, Gordon? If American spies didn't have enough
:15:05. > :15:07.problems with their own President saying they were leaking against
:15:08. > :15:12.him, they have their own leaks tost to worry about. It's their old foe,
:15:13. > :15:15.WikiLeaks, apparently producing hundreds, thousands, of documents
:15:16. > :15:20.which haven't been confirmed as true but which certainly look, at first
:15:21. > :15:26.sight, credible and very sensitive about the CIA's own technical
:15:27. > :15:30.capabilities. They showed the CIA can hack into iPhones, android
:15:31. > :15:37.phones. One capability codenamed Weeping Angel, said to be developed
:15:38. > :15:42.with Britain's MI5 which might explain why the codename
:15:43. > :15:48.refull-terms to a film in the Doctor Who series. It allows them to get
:15:49. > :15:52.inside Samsung connected smart TVs. They can use the microphone in these
:15:53. > :15:55.TVs as a bug to record conversations in the room and send it back over
:15:56. > :15:58.the internet to intelligence agencies. You remember the
:15:59. > :16:02.revelation, the Lou about Edward Snowden, it will be the same again,
:16:03. > :16:07.the spies say they need the capabilities to spy, to collect
:16:08. > :16:11.Inamoto tell generals on their targets, like terroristses and
:16:12. > :16:23.exposing this makes it harder. Prif Sid groups say they have too many
:16:24. > :16:26.powers, go too far and secret. The why an organisation tasked with
:16:27. > :16:30.stealing other people's secrets seems to find it hard to keep their
:16:31. > :16:37.own. Gordon Corera there for us. Thanks again.
:16:38. > :16:46.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:16:47. > :16:47.A post-mortem examination into the death of George Michael
:16:48. > :16:47.has found that he died of natural causes.
:16:48. > :16:48.The 53-year-old singer was found dead at his Oxfordshire
:16:49. > :17:06.An initial investigation failed to determine a cause.
:17:07. > :17:08.A 22 year-old British woman - rescued when the vehicle
:17:09. > :17:11.she was driving was pulled over by police - is recovering
:17:12. > :17:13.in hospital in Australia after she was held against her will
:17:14. > :17:21.An Australian man, who was also found in the vehicle,
:17:22. > :17:24.has been charged with a number of offences, including rape
:17:25. > :17:27.Facebook has come under heavy criticism after a BBC investigation
:17:28. > :17:29.found it failed to remove inappropriate images of children.
:17:30. > :17:32.The chairman of the Commons Media Committee said he had "grave doubts"
:17:33. > :17:34.about the effectiveness of its content moderation systems.
:17:35. > :17:37.The head of BMW in the UK has cast further doubt on whether it
:17:38. > :17:40.will build an electric version of the Mini in Britain.
:17:41. > :17:43.Peter Schwarzenbauer says the impact of Brexit will be a factor
:17:44. > :17:46.Our business editor, Simon Jack, reports from the Geneva car show
:17:47. > :17:49.where he's been speaking to the bosses of some of the UK's
:17:50. > :17:52.The car industry's newest and flashest models were on display
:17:53. > :17:55.in Geneva today, trying to catch the eye of a global audience
:17:56. > :17:59.But, in the here and now, it's more familiar models that
:18:00. > :18:03.Vauxhalls are made at Ellesmere Port and Luton, and their fate will soon
:18:04. > :18:06.be down to this man, who already runs
:18:07. > :18:10.He says Vauxhall has a future, even if Brexit results in trade
:18:11. > :18:14.If we were talking about this scenario, a hard Brexit,
:18:15. > :18:17.with customs duties and all that stuff, then it would be, of course,
:18:18. > :18:23.an opportunity for us to have a UK sourcing to source for the UK.
:18:24. > :18:26.Of course, for that to happen, we also need to have the supplier
:18:27. > :18:29.base being developed in the UK so that the cost structure would be
:18:30. > :18:31.in pounds, the revenue structure will be in pounds.
:18:32. > :18:36.For that to happen, we would need the support of the UK Government.
:18:37. > :18:38.BMW makes Minis in Cowley, near Oxford.
:18:39. > :18:40.It will start production of an electric version in 2019.
:18:41. > :18:43.It has to decide where to do that very soon.
:18:44. > :18:45.We want to see a tariff-free environment where goods,
:18:46. > :18:49.services and in fact people can move freely across borders and somewhere
:18:50. > :18:52.around the middle to third quarter of the year,
:18:53. > :19:00.we will actually make the decision as to where the Mini is produced.
:19:01. > :19:03.The most important fact about these cars is not really how fast they go
:19:04. > :19:07.or how many miles they do to the gallon.
:19:08. > :19:09.The most important fact is, where are they made?
:19:10. > :19:11.Automotive jobs, creating them, preserving them, is important
:19:12. > :19:14.to politicians all over the world, and no more so than in
:19:15. > :19:21.The car companies know that and in the race to keep jobs,
:19:22. > :19:24.some goverments have been prepared to go to great lengths
:19:25. > :19:31.Nissan makes 500,000 cars a year in Sunderland.
:19:32. > :19:35.In October last year, it committed to increasing
:19:36. > :19:40.investment after reassurance the Government would
:19:41. > :19:41.ensure the plant remained competitive after Brexit.
:19:42. > :19:44.Since then, the Prime Minister has said no deal would be better
:19:45. > :19:49.That raised concerns in the car industry the UK would fall back
:19:50. > :19:51.on international trade rules, which could mean high tariffs.
:19:52. > :19:54.So, how solid is Nissan's commitment today?
:19:55. > :19:57.Governments in the UK have a tradition to honour
:19:58. > :20:00.their commitments, so we believe it, and we feel good about it.
:20:01. > :20:04.This being said, we will have to wait until Brexit has been
:20:05. > :20:08.negotiated and we see the conditions of the new status before giving
:20:09. > :20:15.The effects of global competition are felt locally.
:20:16. > :20:18.According to the boss of PSA, it's a competition where there's
:20:19. > :20:23.Everybody is asking for protection and the only honest answer
:20:24. > :20:29.If you increase your level of performance, you become the best.
:20:30. > :20:32.If you become the best, there is no risk.
:20:33. > :20:35.A simple guide to survival in the car industry.
:20:36. > :20:54.As fighters from the Islamic State group are gradually being driven out
:20:55. > :20:57.of their stronghold in Iraq, the scale of their atrocities
:20:58. > :20:59.is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular.
:21:00. > :21:02.The Yazidi people are ethnic Kurds and they are the victims
:21:03. > :21:04.of a genocidal campaign, according to the UN
:21:05. > :21:11.So far it's thought 5,000 people have been killed.
:21:12. > :21:14.Over 3,000, mostly women and children, are being held captive,
:21:15. > :21:17.Thousands of men and boys are missing.
:21:18. > :21:23.Some Yazidis have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in Germany.
:21:24. > :21:34.Our correspondent, Naomi Grimley, reports now from one
:21:35. > :21:40.A secret location in south-west Germany, it's a place of exile,
:21:41. > :21:42.80 Yazidi women and children now live here.
:21:43. > :21:44.They were violently persecuted by so-called Islamic State
:21:45. > :21:48.These two boys were captured by the extremists and sent
:21:49. > :21:50.to a military training camp, aged just 14 and 16.
:21:51. > :21:56.TRANSLATION: The training was about weapons.
:21:57. > :22:00.We learnt how to load and fire a weapon.
:22:01. > :22:04.We would do exercises, crawling under barbed
:22:05. > :22:15.TRANSLATION: To learn how to fire a gun on human beings they took us
:22:16. > :22:18.to big graves where they had the dead bodies of Muslim traitors,
:22:19. > :22:20.spies of the regime or those who took drugs.
:22:21. > :22:25.They said we have to fire on the bodies to get used to it.
:22:26. > :22:28.TRANSLATION: If we didn't do what we were told or broke
:22:29. > :22:30.the rules, they would beat us with a stick.
:22:31. > :22:47.Everything had to be like they wanted.
:22:48. > :22:48.I had to pretend to be a Muslim to survive.
:22:49. > :22:49.TRANSLATION: Their books were just like magic,
:22:50. > :22:49.they quickly changed your mind and made you into one of them.
:22:50. > :22:54.I bet, not just me, even a man's mind would have changed.
:22:55. > :22:57.After a year, a smuggler helped them escape the camp.
:22:58. > :22:59.TRANSLATION: By God I knew it was dangerous, but there
:23:00. > :23:06.When you lose everything, you have nothing left.
:23:07. > :23:14.This is mainly a community of women and children, most of the men
:23:15. > :23:23.The women were originally brought to Germany for trauma counselling
:23:24. > :23:34.after the mass rapes under Islamic State.
:23:35. > :23:35.Baden-Wurttemberg, in south-west Germany, has welcomed more
:23:36. > :23:38.than 1,000 Yazidis in two years and the man who runs
:23:39. > :23:41.several towns volunteered to give them shelter.
:23:42. > :23:46.Of course, they are struggling, but they can start like, you know,
:23:47. > :23:48.just start a new future, get into school, get an education,
:23:49. > :23:51.dream about falling in love and all of these things that
:23:52. > :24:02.All that may take time but at least, for now, this refuge is far away
:24:03. > :24:05.from those religious zealots who're trying to wipe them out.
:24:06. > :24:16.Naomi Grimley, BBC News, south-west Germany.
:24:17. > :24:19.Tomorrow, the international lawyer acting on behalf of the Yazidis
:24:20. > :24:22.will address the UN in New York and call for a formal
:24:23. > :24:23.investigation into allegations of genocide perpetrated
:24:24. > :24:30.Amal Clooney has been telling Fiona Bruce why she's decided
:24:31. > :24:32.to represent the Yazidis and why their cause
:24:33. > :24:36.You're calling for so-called Islamic State to be held
:24:37. > :24:42.to account for genocide, why is that so important to you?
:24:43. > :24:45.I've been to refuges in Germany, like the one that you showed
:24:46. > :24:49.in your piece, and I've interviewed former child soldiers and young
:24:50. > :24:51.girls who were raped and enslaved by Isis.
:24:52. > :24:55.It's been the most harrowing testimony I've ever heard.
:24:56. > :24:57.We know that it's genocide, the UN has said so.
:24:58. > :25:00.In other words, Isis is trying to destroy them as a group
:25:01. > :25:03.and we are allowing it to happen without actually calling
:25:04. > :25:09.So what do you think can be done practically to bring
:25:10. > :25:15.Well, the first step that should be taken is for evidence to be
:25:16. > :25:17.collected on the ground because we know that
:25:18. > :25:22.So there are mass graves that are being discovered.
:25:23. > :25:24.Just a few days ago, in Mosul, a huge mass grave,
:25:25. > :25:27.that's thought to have 4,000 bodies in it, was discovered.
:25:28. > :25:29.And there's other types of evidence as well.
:25:30. > :25:33.Isis is actually a big bureaucracy, believe it or not, and they're
:25:34. > :25:41.You know, you need to collect DNA, you need to collect phone records
:25:42. > :25:42.and none of that is being done at the moment.
:25:43. > :25:44.You're going to the UN this week, what are you going
:25:45. > :25:48.I'm addressing the UN on the issue of accountability and saying
:25:49. > :25:52.So why do you think they're not doing it?
:25:53. > :25:55.This is exactly the question that I'll be posing to member states.
:25:56. > :25:58.You know, I'm going to ask them - are the crimes not serious enough
:25:59. > :26:01.Well, that can't be it because it's genocide.
:26:02. > :26:04.You know, do you think that there's no evidence for you to collect?
:26:05. > :26:12.That's not right either, there are mass graves whose
:26:13. > :26:15.locations are known, you can start there and there's
:26:16. > :26:19.The fact that you are now not just a human rights lawyer,
:26:20. > :26:21.but you are known - obviously because of
:26:22. > :26:23.your marriage to one of Hollywood's biggest stars -
:26:24. > :26:26.I mean, does that help in terms of giving you a bigger platform
:26:27. > :26:28.and getting more people to listen to you?
:26:29. > :26:31.I mean, there's lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors,
:26:32. > :26:35.I think if there are more people who now understand what's happening
:26:36. > :26:38.about the Yazidis and Isis and if there can be some action
:26:39. > :26:40.that results from that, that can help those clients,
:26:41. > :26:44.then I think it's a really good thing to give that case the extra
:26:45. > :26:50.But, you know, if you don't have a good case and you don't
:26:51. > :26:53.have a good message, then shining a light on it is not
:26:54. > :27:05.That was the international lawyer, Amal Clooney,
:27:06. > :27:10.There is much more about the plight of the Yazidi people on our website.
:27:11. > :27:11.Just follow the link at bbc.co.uk/news.
:27:12. > :27:21.Labour has renewed its demand to know whether the Government
:27:22. > :27:23.offered a special deal to Surrey County Council to help
:27:24. > :27:26.The council had been considering holding a local
:27:27. > :27:28.referendum on raising the council tax.
:27:29. > :27:30.But in a secret recording, obtained by the BBC,
:27:31. > :27:32.the Conservative leader of the authority, David Hodge,
:27:33. > :27:34.is heard telling colleagues that he'd secured a "gentleman's
:27:35. > :27:41.There may come a time, if what I call a gentleman's
:27:42. > :27:44.agreement, as the Conservative Party often does, are not honoured,
:27:45. > :27:49.we will have to revisit this in nine months or a year's time.
:27:50. > :27:52.If we do, let me assure you, you will have to drag me,
:27:53. > :27:56.kicking and screaming, not to go for referendum next year.
:27:57. > :28:01.Our chief political correspondent, Vicki Young, is at Westminster.
:28:02. > :28:06.Potentially, how tricky is this for the Government, Vicki? In recent
:28:07. > :28:11.weeks Jeremy Corbyn laid into Theresa May in all of this saying it
:28:12. > :28:16.shows a Tory council being given a secret deal to stop it hiking
:28:17. > :28:19.council tax. They have upped the rhetoric tonight after the emergence
:28:20. > :28:25.of this secret recording saying Theresa May and her ministers have
:28:26. > :28:28.been playing political games and conducting back room sweetheart
:28:29. > :28:32.deals for their friends while councils across the country have
:28:33. > :28:38.struggled to get the money for social care. They have been asked to
:28:39. > :28:42.apply for a pilot scheme where they can keep 100% of their business
:28:43. > :28:47.rates. These are conversations that are the normal thing that goes on.
:28:48. > :28:51.There is no doubt it's awkward, embarrassing hearing this Tory
:28:52. > :28:54.council leader boosting about his access to very senior ministers.
:28:55. > :28:59.Ministers said it does not amount to any kind of secret deal. Vicki,
:29:00. > :29:07.again, thanks for the update there. Vicki Young there at Westminster.
:29:08. > :29:09.Poachers have broken into a zoo near Paris and shot
:29:10. > :29:12.dead a rhinoceros before sawing off and stealing one of its horns.
:29:13. > :29:14.French police say the white rhino was killed overnight
:29:15. > :29:17.It's estimated that a rhino horn can fetch around ?40,000
:29:18. > :29:22.Our correspondent, Lucy Williamson, has more details.
:29:23. > :29:25.This is where poachers came looking for their latest kill,
:29:26. > :29:30.Their victim, this four-year-old rhino called Vince.
:29:31. > :29:32.They shot him three times before cutting off his
:29:33. > :29:39.Park staff say the attackers broke through two fences and a wall
:29:40. > :29:48.It's thought to be the first time poachers have targeted live animals
:29:49. > :29:58.It's horrific that Vince, our rhino, was shot.
:29:59. > :30:00.We've got this notion that here they are protected
:30:01. > :30:05.from poaching and that poaching happens far away in their natural
:30:06. > :30:07.habitat and here they're safe and poaching has come here now
:30:08. > :30:09.so that's extremely destabilising and shocking.
:30:10. > :30:11.Tonight there's extra security in place at the rhino enclosure
:30:12. > :30:18.behind me where the two surviving animals are still being housed.
:30:19. > :30:20.This was a well-planned operation with apparently
:30:21. > :30:30.the park and it has put zoos across Europe on alert.
:30:31. > :30:32.Paris was the weakest link today, but it might be another population
:30:33. > :30:34.in Namibia or other parts of the world.
:30:35. > :30:37.As long as the incentives and profits are high
:30:38. > :30:39.in and the risks are low enough, criminals will seek out
:30:40. > :30:42.the weakest link to get their hands on the rhino horn.
:30:43. > :30:45.Like Vince, the other young male at Thoiry might one day
:30:46. > :30:47.Europe's zoos, designed to protect the species,
:30:48. > :30:50.are now themselves being targeted for the animals in their care.
:30:51. > :30:55.Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is under mounting pressure tonight
:30:56. > :30:57.after his team were eliminated from the Champions League.
:30:58. > :31:01.They'd gone into their second leg tie against Bayern Munich needing
:31:02. > :31:07.But the second leg proved equally one-sided, as Natalie Pirks reports.
:31:08. > :31:17.They were small in number, but loud in sentiment.
:31:18. > :31:19.A group of Arsenal fans marched on the Emirates tonight
:31:20. > :31:33.# We want you to go # We want you to go
:31:34. > :31:36.# Arsene Wenger # We want you to go #.
:31:37. > :31:38.12 years, no Premier League, no Champions League.
:31:39. > :31:41.How can we call ourselves a big club?
:31:42. > :31:43.Enough's enough, yeah, we want him out now.
:31:44. > :31:46.But football is a fickle thing and one good
:31:47. > :31:48.result can silence even the loudest of protests.
:31:49. > :31:49.Arsene Wenger had demanded his team displayed
:31:50. > :32:02.The best goalkeeper in the world no match for Theo Walcott on a mission.
:32:03. > :32:07.Laurent Koscielny got a bit physical with Robert Lewandowski and the
:32:08. > :32:10.assistant referee seized his moment, upgrading a yellow card to red.
:32:11. > :32:17.With that extra man, Bayern could start to
:32:18. > :32:19.click through the gears and, boy, did they.
:32:20. > :32:21.First, Arjen Robben pounced on a defensive mix-up.
:32:22. > :32:32.Arturo Vidal got in on the act with the cheekiest of dinks.
:32:33. > :32:34.And Vidal, once again, cut Arsenal to ribbons
:32:35. > :32:39.How the Germans must love it in North London.
:32:40. > :32:42.As the boos rang out, Wenger must have wished he could be
:32:43. > :32:50.Talk of Wenger's future dominated the build-up but for 45 minutes it
:32:51. > :32:55.looked as if Arsenal had found their fight. A second-half capitulation is
:32:56. > :33:00.an all too familiar Champions League tale. That small but vocal group of
:33:01. > :33:04.fans is growing louder. There are many now feel it could and should be
:33:05. > :33:08.the last time Arsene Wenger manages Arsenal in Europe. Natalie thank you
:33:09. > :33:10.very much again at the Emirates Stadium. Natalie Perks.