:00:00. > :00:07.The Chancellor does a U-turn on plans to raise national
:00:08. > :00:10.insurance contributions for some self-employed.
:00:11. > :00:13.All smiles, just a week ago, as he announced
:00:14. > :00:17.Now, the Prime Minister changes the tune.
:00:18. > :00:23.We will bring forward further proposals, but we will not bring
:00:24. > :00:26.forward increases to Nics later in this parliament.
:00:27. > :00:33.The climbdown follows a backlash from Tory and opposition MPs alike.
:00:34. > :00:36.We have a Government U-turn, we have no apology and we have a Budget that
:00:37. > :00:44.falls most heavily on those with the least broad shoulders.
:00:45. > :00:47.My goodness, isn't it welcome that the Prime Minister today has
:00:48. > :00:49.admitted she is for turning with her screeching, embarrassing
:00:50. > :00:59.We'll be looking at what caused the Government to change its mind.
:01:00. > :01:05.A Royal Marine, who shot dead a Taliban soldier,
:01:06. > :01:10.has his conviction reduced from murder to manslaughter.
:01:11. > :01:12.The election in the Netherlands, an exit poll suggests
:01:13. > :01:15.the Prime Minister has seen off a challenge from Geert
:01:16. > :01:20.Millions in Somalia and across the region
:01:21. > :01:21.are threatened with famine, British charities launch
:01:22. > :01:28.There's the goal that Manchester City
:01:29. > :01:31.And it's provided by Leroy Sane to throw them
:01:32. > :01:35.And, will this goal be enough to keep Manchester City
:01:36. > :01:43.A tough night for Manchester City in the Champions League.
:01:44. > :02:05.Is this the Monaco goal that knocks them out in the last 16?
:02:06. > :02:10.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has been forced into a U-turn over
:02:11. > :02:12.last week's Budget plan to increase National Insurance contributions
:02:13. > :02:19.He told the Commons today that the plan will not now go ahead.
:02:20. > :02:23.The Government had faced a backlash by Conservative backbenchers,
:02:24. > :02:24.business groups and usually supportive newspapers accused
:02:25. > :02:27.of breaking a general election manifesto commitment not
:02:28. > :02:34.Labour has called it a "humiliating climbdown" and warned that
:02:35. > :02:37.Mr Hammond now has a ?2 billion black hole in his budget.
:02:38. > :02:40.Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:41. > :02:43.If Number Eleven is your front door, changing your mind about what's
:02:44. > :02:51.Shifting only a week after your Kodak moment,
:02:52. > :02:56.Your Treasury colleagues, seven days later, keeping shtoom.
:02:57. > :02:58.REPORTER: Mr Clarke, does this represent
:02:59. > :03:05.Worst still, when it's your boss who makes the announcement
:03:06. > :03:07.at the biggest political event of the week.
:03:08. > :03:12.THE SPEAKER: Questions to the Prime Minister.
:03:13. > :03:14.The trend towards greater self-employed does create
:03:15. > :03:18.We will bring forward further proposals, but we will not bring
:03:19. > :03:24.forward increases to Nics later in this Parliament.
:03:25. > :03:27.Tax hikes for two million self-employed people,
:03:28. > :03:33.We've just heard the Prime Minister is about to drop the national
:03:34. > :03:35.insurance hike announced only a week ago.
:03:36. > :03:39.It seems to me like a Government in a bit of chaos here.
:03:40. > :03:47.The PM and her next door neighbour hardly looked too concerned.
:03:48. > :03:53.A Budget that unravels in seven days.
:03:54. > :04:04.But the idea would have broken a Tory manifesto promise
:04:05. > :04:07.and they were then lambasted for a total change of heart.
:04:08. > :04:09.We once had a Prime Minister who said that the lady's
:04:10. > :04:13.My goodness, isn't it welcomed that the Prime Minister today has
:04:14. > :04:15.admitted she is for turning with her screeching, embarrassing
:04:16. > :04:19.Is that why they want to abolish Spring Budgets because they just
:04:20. > :04:24.Number Eleven and Number Ten only made the decision
:04:25. > :04:26.at 8.00am this morning, choosing humiliation today...
:04:27. > :04:29.REPORTER: How humiliating is this tax U-turn for the Chancellor?
:04:30. > :04:36...over a row that could have run for months.
:04:37. > :04:39.REPORTER: Can the Chancellor stay in post?
:04:40. > :04:42.The man himself, charged with managing the nation's accounts,
:04:43. > :04:43.had to explain how his careful spreadsheet calculations
:04:44. > :04:50.This Government sets great store in the faith and trust
:04:51. > :04:52.of the British people, especially as we embark
:04:53. > :04:56.on the process of negotiating our exit from the European Union.
:04:57. > :04:59.By making this change today, we are listening to our colleagues
:05:00. > :05:05.and demonstrating our determination to fulfil both the letter
:05:06. > :05:12.and the spirit of our manifesto tax commitments.
:05:13. > :05:15.Number Eleven had defended the idea, Number Ten had done too,
:05:16. > :05:20.but the atmosphere soured over the weekend.
:05:21. > :05:25.Sources suggest, on Monday, a group of senior MPs told
:05:26. > :05:29.So today, in a move one former minister branded as "extraordinary",
:05:30. > :05:36.We made it very clear that it was not something
:05:37. > :05:40.We would campaign against it, we'd vote against it
:05:41. > :05:45.So I think it's shown, in some ways, he's a strong Chancellor
:05:46. > :05:48.in the sense that he's admitted he's made a mistake and he's done
:05:49. > :05:51.The ground hadn't been that well-prepared.
:05:52. > :05:54.The mathematics didn't add up, in terms of getting the votes
:05:55. > :05:56.for the legislation that would have been needed.
:05:57. > :05:59.So what we've got is a delay and, I suspect, some hard thinking
:06:00. > :06:02.about what the best way forward is, but we will have to
:06:03. > :06:06.He doesn't look that bothered, strolling in the sun on his way back
:06:07. > :06:11.REPORTER: Humiliated today, Chancellor?
:06:12. > :06:25.Reputations round here are hard won and easy to lose.
:06:26. > :06:28.Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:06:29. > :06:28.Well, the scrapping of the rise in national insurance
:06:29. > :06:31.contributions leaves a big hole in the Chancellor's budget plans
:06:32. > :06:34.Mr Hammond has already pledged to increase spending on social care,
:06:35. > :06:36.so where does today's U-turn leave the public finances?
:06:37. > :06:39.Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:06:40. > :06:44.It was a tax rise, and a gift - to the headline writers.
:06:45. > :06:48.The Chancellor knew he had a problem when he sat down to breakfast
:06:49. > :06:50.the day after the Budget faced with an avalanche of
:06:51. > :06:57.He was trying to tackle this issue, the new world of work and the growth
:06:58. > :07:00.in the number of self-employed, who are taxed less than employees.
:07:01. > :07:05.Many supported the increase in national insurance contributions,
:07:06. > :07:07.and expressed their disappointment that today, politics seems
:07:08. > :07:14.This is a disappointing move, that the increase in Class 4
:07:15. > :07:15.national insurance won't be going ahead, because that
:07:16. > :07:17.increase closed some of the discrepancies
:07:18. > :07:25.between employees and the self-employed in our tax system,
:07:26. > :07:27.and it largely hit the better-off self-employed with the lowest
:07:28. > :07:29.earning self-employed not losing at all.
:07:30. > :07:31.This was Philip Hammond's rather neat budget plan a week ago.
:07:32. > :07:33.He made three big spending commitments.
:07:34. > :07:35.More money on social care - ?2.4 billion.
:07:36. > :07:39.And more money for business rate relief and education -
:07:40. > :07:48.It was claimed that those costs would be balanced
:07:49. > :07:53.by two big tax rises - a ?2.6 billion tax rise
:07:54. > :07:58.on dividends from shares people own as an investment,
:07:59. > :08:00.and the controversial one, a ?2 billion increase in national
:08:01. > :08:07.insurance contributions from the self-employed.
:08:08. > :08:12.That has now been scrapped, leaving Mr Hammond with
:08:13. > :08:18.The big promise at the last election - this government
:08:19. > :08:21.would not raise direct taxes, so limiting its room for manoeuvre.
:08:22. > :08:24.A problem summed up in a tweet this afternoon by the Government's
:08:25. > :08:33.own employment adviser, Matthew Taylor.
:08:34. > :08:41.It was never sensible to put in a manifesto a pledge that
:08:42. > :08:43.you wouldn't increase rates of national insurance
:08:44. > :08:50.Those are the three biggest taxes that we have by far.
:08:51. > :08:53.To tie your hands for five years for those three big taxes never
:08:54. > :08:59.He's not the first and he won't be the fast last Chancellor to see
:09:00. > :09:01.a budget unravel over failures to see political
:09:02. > :09:06.Mr Hammond has said he WILL fill the ?2 billion black hole caused
:09:07. > :09:11.by today's U-turn at the next budget in the autumn.
:09:12. > :09:16.It is for the moment completely unclear how.
:09:17. > :09:20.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is at Westminster.
:09:21. > :09:22.A bad day for the Government, but will they be able
:09:23. > :09:25.to shrug it off or will this cause lasting damage?
:09:26. > :09:29.I don't think that something as big as significant as this just comes
:09:30. > :09:34.out in the wash. I think there is a stain that will hang around. Two
:09:35. > :09:38.many main reasons for that. One, having budged on this, there is a
:09:39. > :09:42.sense in Westminster - what next? They were scared off by a group of
:09:43. > :09:46.backbenchers and by the prospect by defeat in the House of Lords. A
:09:47. > :09:51.question for Theresa May and Philip Hammond, they folded within a week
:09:52. > :09:54.on this one policy. With such a difficult agenda of things they have
:09:55. > :09:57.to get Donetsk in the next few years, how much will they be
:09:58. > :10:02.prepared to stick to things when the going gets rough in times to come?
:10:03. > :10:06.The second question is, again, for both Number Eleven and Number Ten,
:10:07. > :10:10.in terms of their political antennae. When this became so
:10:11. > :10:15.quickly and obviously a big problem, in terms of a broken manifesto
:10:16. > :10:19.commitment, how on earth, in the preparation for the Budget, had they
:10:20. > :10:22.failed to see it coming? In politics, as everywhere else in
:10:23. > :10:25.life, there are practical calculations. There is a sense that,
:10:26. > :10:30.in the end, the Government thought it just wouldn't be worth carrying
:10:31. > :10:34.on here. I'm told, in the last couple of days, both Theresa May and
:10:35. > :10:39.Philip Hammond went backwards and forwards whether to justify the
:10:40. > :10:42.policy with some kind of fudge or whether to act decriesively as, as
:10:43. > :10:47.they have done, and put it out of its misery. In the en, they did go
:10:48. > :10:50.for the short, sharp shock, but I think there is long-term damage
:10:51. > :10:55.particularly for Philip Hammond, the Chancellor. The now, above all else,
:10:56. > :11:01.the resident of Number Eleven is meant to be a safe pair of hands.
:11:02. > :11:05.That indeed, until tonight, was Philip Hammond's reputation.
:11:06. > :11:09.Reputations are hard to come by and they can disappear very quickly.
:11:10. > :11:13.Here is the safe pair of hands having carried out and taken a
:11:14. > :11:19.politically dangerous action. Laura, at Westminster, thank you.
:11:20. > :11:21.A Royal Marine, who shot dead an injured Taliban
:11:22. > :11:23.fighter in Afghanistan, has won his appeal against his
:11:24. > :11:26.Sergeant Alexander Blackman had his conviction reduced
:11:27. > :11:29.to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
:11:30. > :11:32.The judges concluded that he had been suffering from a mental illness
:11:33. > :11:37.Here's our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
:11:38. > :11:40.Claire Blackman's led this long, but never lonely, fight to have her
:11:41. > :11:45.Today, she arrived at court hoping for good news.
:11:46. > :11:54.In 2013, a military court found Alexander Blackman,
:11:55. > :11:56.better known as Marine A, guilty of murdering a wounded
:11:57. > :12:08.But today, the Appeal Court concluded it wasn't murder.
:12:09. > :12:13.There was a tear in her eye when she heard that news.
:12:14. > :12:19.Outside court, she and her supporters savoured the moment.
:12:20. > :12:21.We are delighted at the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter
:12:22. > :12:25.This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects
:12:26. > :12:27.the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that
:12:28. > :12:39.The incident, in 2011, was all filmed on a helmet camera.
:12:40. > :12:42.This the moment when a helicopter opens fire on two Taliban
:12:43. > :12:48.We're not allowed to show what happens next when the patrol
:12:49. > :12:51.reach him, we can only play the audio as Blackman
:12:52. > :12:58.Obviously, this doesn't go anywhere, fellas.
:12:59. > :13:03.I've just broken the Geneva Convention.
:13:04. > :13:06.But three leading psychiatrists told the court that tough
:13:07. > :13:08.tour had taken its toll on Blackman's mental health.
:13:09. > :13:11.Clearly, what had happened to him, during the time
:13:12. > :13:15.that he was in Afghanistan, on that particular tour,
:13:16. > :13:18.is his ability to think rationally and to exercise rational judgment
:13:19. > :13:22.had been slowly deteriorated and degraded.
:13:23. > :13:24.The Appeal Court concluded that Alexander Blackman was suffering
:13:25. > :13:31.from an adjustment disorder when he killed that insurgent.
:13:32. > :13:34.But speaking for the first time, those who served alongside him
:13:35. > :13:37.in Afghanistan say there were other pressures, too.
:13:38. > :13:39.It wasn't evidence heard in court, but among those Marines
:13:40. > :13:42.with Blackman on that patrol, there's plenty of sympathy
:13:43. > :13:52.I think it's just another day in Afghanistan and that's the way it
:13:53. > :13:56.goes out there and none of us got hurt, so it was a successful day,
:13:57. > :14:05.Claire Blackman will still have to wait to be reunited
:14:06. > :14:08.with her husband, he's no longer a murderer, but he's
:14:09. > :14:14.The court has to decide on that sentence, but the man known
:14:15. > :14:20.as Marine A could soon be freed from prison.
:14:21. > :14:24.You can see more on that tonight in a special Panorama,
:14:25. > :14:26.in which some of the men who served with Sergeant Blackman speak
:14:27. > :14:30.It's called Marine A: The Inside Story.
:14:31. > :14:39.Polls have closed in the Netherlands, where voters have been
:14:40. > :14:44.Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right
:14:45. > :14:47.Liberal Party has won the most seats, seeing off Geert Wilders'
:14:48. > :14:52.Turnout in the Netherlands topped 80%, with extra ballot papers having
:14:53. > :14:57.The election had been seen as a litmus test for populism
:14:58. > :14:59.in Europe, ahead of the French and German elections
:15:00. > :15:05.Our Europe editor, Katya Adler, reports from the Hague.
:15:06. > :15:11.It's not often that Dutch politics are the focus of so much attention.
:15:12. > :15:22...wanted to stifle immigration, close mosques and leave the EU.
:15:23. > :15:27.He WAS riding high in pre-election polls.
:15:28. > :15:32.Would the protectionism and nostalgic nationalism of Brexit
:15:33. > :15:35.and Donald Trump win the day in mainland Europe?
:15:36. > :15:43.Geert Wilders's party is now the Netherlands' second-largest,
:15:44. > :15:50.So, is the populist trend dead in the water?
:15:51. > :15:54.It's tempting to make sweeping statements,
:15:55. > :16:01.but Wilders doesn't need to be in government to influence politics.
:16:02. > :16:03.This is his main political rival coming to cast his ballot this
:16:04. > :16:09.Mark Rutte is the Netherlands' current Prime Minister from,
:16:10. > :16:16.according to exit polls, the country's largest party.
:16:17. > :16:21.He's described as a liberal, but he adopted some of Mr Wilders'
:16:22. > :16:25.immigrant-sceptic language in a bid to attract votes.
:16:26. > :16:27.Expect to see more mainstream parties borrowing populist
:16:28. > :16:33.rhetoric in elections across Europe this year.
:16:34. > :16:36.This is a small country, there's only about 13 million
:16:37. > :16:43.But the resonance of this election is huge.
:16:44. > :16:49.Europe is transfixed, and the result will be pored over
:16:50. > :16:52.for any possible political clues as to what might come next
:16:53. > :16:55.in elections in big hitters France, Germany, and possibly even Italy
:16:56. > :17:02.But aside from right-wing populism that has certainly
:17:03. > :17:06.played its part in this election, there is another trend evident.
:17:07. > :17:10.The Green Party, left-leaning and pro-EU, soared in popularity here.
:17:11. > :17:12.In Germany and in France tonight, similar-minded
:17:13. > :17:21.Katya - although we won't get full results for a few hours yet,
:17:22. > :17:23.it looks like the outcome that many politicians in the Netherlands
:17:24. > :17:32.and across Europe had dreaded will not come to pass?
:17:33. > :17:39.Well, Geert Wilders himself tonight tweeted that the Dutch Prime
:17:40. > :17:43.Minister had not got rid of him yet. And as I pointed out in my report,
:17:44. > :17:46.he has already had considerable influence on political discourse in
:17:47. > :17:52.this country, even from the opposition. But for most people
:17:53. > :17:56.here, yes, as soon as those exit polls had been confirmed, Mainz will
:17:57. > :18:00.turn to the painful process of coalition building to form the next
:18:01. > :18:06.Dutch government, with the main parties shunning Geert Wilders as a
:18:07. > :18:12.partner. The fact that he will not be the Netherlands' next Prime
:18:13. > :18:16.Minister, the reaction to that is likely to be short lived because
:18:17. > :18:22.minds will be turning out to France, and the president election, just
:18:23. > :18:25.five weeks away. The shadow, or the light, depending on your politics,
:18:26. > :18:28.of Marine Le Pen, looms very large there indeed.
:18:29. > :18:31.Some of the country's major charities have launched an emergency
:18:32. > :18:34.appeal to help an estimated 16 million people facing
:18:35. > :18:41.Four countries - South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia -
:18:42. > :18:44.are acutely short of food, water and medicine.
:18:45. > :18:46.The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has visited
:18:47. > :18:47.the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, where a national
:18:48. > :19:00.Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports.
:19:01. > :19:02.The vast, bone-dry plains of Somalia.
:19:03. > :19:04.It has hardly rained here for three years.
:19:05. > :19:12.Many are already dying before they can reach help.
:19:13. > :19:14.With 3 million people on the verge of starvation here, the sense
:19:15. > :19:23.But this is a hard place to help, a famously dangerous country.
:19:24. > :19:25.The capital Mogadishu remains volatile, with several attacks
:19:26. > :19:37.here this week blamed on Islamist militants.
:19:38. > :19:40.Today, the Foreign Secretary flew in- in part to
:19:41. > :19:45.The safer Somalia becomes, after all, the easier
:19:46. > :19:49.British support here takes many forms, but in truth,
:19:50. > :19:51.the immediate threat of famine now overshadows everything.
:19:52. > :19:58.Talking hard cash at the command centre for
:19:59. > :20:06.The British government has already given ?110 million.
:20:07. > :20:11.One of the things we're trying to do is, because we put 110 in,
:20:12. > :20:14.and I think we're trying to get other countries to come in with us.
:20:15. > :20:20.To those thinking about digging into their pockets
:20:21. > :20:23.for the appeal back in Britain, would their money be well spent?
:20:24. > :20:25.It would be very well spent in my view.
:20:26. > :20:28.You have probably 6.2 million people who are at risk of famine.
:20:29. > :20:34.These guys are trying to reach out to about 3 million people
:20:35. > :20:37.of the most urgent cases, and you've got cholera now
:20:38. > :20:39.on the rise, kids dying of cholera in this country,
:20:40. > :20:44.There are very simple ways of addressing these problems,
:20:45. > :20:47.and the cash that we're giving as the UK is, I believe,
:20:48. > :20:53.It's six years since Somalia's last famine.
:20:54. > :21:05.In those days, the country was even more dangerous, and aid agencies
:21:06. > :21:12.As alarming as things are right now in Somalia,
:21:13. > :21:15.it's clear that lessons have been learned from the last famine,
:21:16. > :21:17.when so much aid was either stolen or blocked from reaching
:21:18. > :21:23.Plenty can, and no doubt will, go wrong here, but right now,
:21:24. > :21:25.for those in charge, there's more confidence than panic.
:21:26. > :21:31.This morning, Somalia's new president insisted that aid
:21:32. > :21:38.Of course we will run this operation in a more transparent
:21:39. > :21:47.And so, millions here in Somalia and across the wider
:21:48. > :21:56.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
:21:57. > :21:59.12 police forces have sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service
:22:00. > :22:00.in relation to Conservative candidates' expenses incurred
:22:01. > :22:05.On Saturday, police questioned for six hours the Conservative
:22:06. > :22:08.MP for South Thanet, Craig MacKinlay, over allegations
:22:09. > :22:13.that local campaign spending limits were breached.
:22:14. > :22:17.Two Russian spies have been charged by the US Department of Justice
:22:18. > :22:20.with the theft of Yahoo user accounts.
:22:21. > :22:26.in 2014 and affected 500 million accounts.
:22:27. > :22:28.The stolen data included names, email addresses, telephone numbers,
:22:29. > :22:34.dates of birth and encrypted passwords, but not credit card data.
:22:35. > :22:37.Southern Rail and the union Aslef have reached a new agreement aimed
:22:38. > :22:40.at resolving a long-running dispute over who opens and closes
:22:41. > :22:47.A previous deal between the two sides was rejected by union members.
:22:48. > :22:50.Police in India have begun a murder investigation after an Irish woman
:22:51. > :22:57.Danielle McLaughlin, who was 28, was from Buncrana in County Donegal.
:22:58. > :23:00.She had been a student in Liverpool and had a British passport.
:23:01. > :23:09.Three animal charities have won a legal battle at the UK's highest
:23:10. > :23:14.court against a woman who was left out of her mother's will.
:23:15. > :23:17.Heather Ilott's mother left most of her ?500,000 estate to charities,
:23:18. > :23:21.but not a penny to her daughter, when she died in 2004.
:23:22. > :23:22.Mrs Ilott successfully appealed her mother's
:23:23. > :23:27.But now the Supreme Court has overturned the appeal.
:23:28. > :23:32.Our legal correspondent Clive Coleman has the story.
:23:33. > :23:36.For generations, families have been falling out over wills.
:23:37. > :23:38.When Heather Ilott's mother died in 2004,
:23:39. > :23:41.she made it crystal clear that she didn't want her
:23:42. > :23:48.She disapproved of her choice of husband, and even insisted any
:23:49. > :23:50.claim Heather might make after her death be
:23:51. > :23:57.Animals can't tell anyone about the cruelty they suffer.
:23:58. > :24:01.Melita Jackson left almost all of her half ?1 million fortune
:24:02. > :24:09.to three animal charities which she had no connection to.
:24:10. > :24:11.In 2007, Heather Ilott challenged the will and was awarded ?50,000
:24:12. > :24:14.on the basis that her mother hadn't made reasonable provision
:24:15. > :24:24.But in 2015, the Court of Appeal raised that to ?160,000.
:24:25. > :24:28.This court unanimously allows the appeal...
:24:29. > :24:33.Today, the Supreme Court restored the original ?50,000 sum.
:24:34. > :24:38.In a really powerful judgment, seven justices here at the highest
:24:39. > :24:44.court in the land have reaffirmed a fundamental principle of English
:24:45. > :24:47.law, that anyone, you or I, can leave our money to whoever
:24:48. > :24:51.we want, even if that means our children getting
:24:52. > :25:00.Money from wills makes up around 50% of the animal charities' income.
:25:01. > :25:03.The Supreme Court acknowledged, charities do an enormous
:25:04. > :25:06.amount of good work, and a lot of that is funded
:25:07. > :25:08.by the generosity of people like Melita Jackson,
:25:09. > :25:10.choosing to leave the money in her will.
:25:11. > :25:14.So, that key point, her right to choose,
:25:15. > :25:17.I want to leave my money to that charity, and I don't have
:25:18. > :25:22.to explain why that was, my decision will be respected.
:25:23. > :25:24.Today's ruling is welcomed by Don Day.
:25:25. > :25:28.His wife Pat suffered from dementia before her death.
:25:29. > :25:30.Following a family rift, he's decided to leave his estate
:25:31. > :25:36.to the Alzheimer's Society and not his daughter.
:25:37. > :25:39.We've had experience of Alzheimer's, and its dreadful
:25:40. > :25:44.effect on two people - my wife's mother and my wife.
:25:45. > :25:47.And we decided that we thought that what little we had would make
:25:48. > :25:51.a little bit of difference to the research that
:25:52. > :25:55.In this battle of wills, a daughter has lost out
:25:56. > :25:59.Charity may have been the winner, but it certainly
:26:00. > :26:12.Other parents at odds with their children will take note.
:26:13. > :26:17.There were more goals in Monaco this evening, as Manchester City tried to
:26:18. > :26:22.reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Despite being a
:26:23. > :26:23.head near the end, it ended in despair for them, as Joe Wilson
:26:24. > :26:26.reports. The M4 doesn't normally
:26:27. > :26:28.runs through Monaco. But that Cardiff final
:26:29. > :26:30.suddenly seems tangible. After the manic Manchester first
:26:31. > :26:35.leg, City started here 5-3 up. That meant Monaco already
:26:36. > :26:37.had three away goals. And after just seven
:26:38. > :26:41.minutes, a home one. Now, City's manager knew
:26:42. > :26:48.what he wanted his players to do, If Monaco scored another,
:26:49. > :27:01.they'd be ahead overall, Second half, they played
:27:02. > :27:10.like time was slipping away. 6-6 overall, and all over,
:27:11. > :27:22.because their away goals scored So, of all England in
:27:23. > :27:25.Champions League Europe, He was one of the greatest figures
:27:26. > :27:30.of the Renaissance - sculptor, painter,
:27:31. > :27:31.architect and poet. Amongst other masterpieces,
:27:32. > :27:34.Michelangelo is renowned for painting the ceiling
:27:35. > :27:36.of the Sistine Chapel. An exhibition which opened today
:27:37. > :27:49.at London's National Gallery sheds new light on his creative
:27:50. > :27:51.partnership with the less Our arts editor, Will Gompertz,
:27:52. > :27:54.tells their intriguing story. As sculptors go,
:27:55. > :27:56.Michelangelo was pretty good. Michelangelo is the peak
:27:57. > :28:01.of skill and virtuosity. As you can see from
:28:02. > :28:02.this marble carving. It shows the virgin
:28:03. > :28:05.and child with St John And if you look at the foot
:28:06. > :28:09.of Christ down here, that's about to emerge
:28:10. > :28:12.from the stone. And Michelangelo wrote so poetically
:28:13. > :28:15.about the figure having to be The only snag was,
:28:16. > :28:22.while Michelangelo was busy decorating the Sistine Chapel
:28:23. > :28:25.ceiling, an ambitious young artist called Raphael had arrived in Rome,
:28:26. > :28:28.and started to compete with him for commissions from
:28:29. > :28:32.the powerful Pope Julius II. Raphael prospered,
:28:33. > :28:39.while Michelangelo toiled. Until he met an artist ten
:28:40. > :28:44.years his junior, called Sebastiano. He comes to Rome at that
:28:45. > :28:46.moment when Michelangelo Sebastiano becomes friends
:28:47. > :28:50.with Michelangelo, and they begin this very fruitful collaboration,
:28:51. > :28:54.of which this is the first example. Michelangelo would make
:28:55. > :28:58.preparatory drawings, such as this male torso,
:28:59. > :29:01.which Sebastiano then rendered in paint, without, it would appear,
:29:02. > :29:06.doing much to turn man into Madonna. The colour, the interest
:29:07. > :29:08.in the landscape, which Michelangelo was never interested in,
:29:09. > :29:11.landscape, whereas of course, Sebastiano has a real poetic feeling
:29:12. > :29:13.for this nocturnal landscape, with some ruins on the left
:29:14. > :29:18.and the waterfall there. The stakes are raised
:29:19. > :29:20.by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, He commissioned two enormous
:29:21. > :29:25.biblical altar pieces, a Transfiguration from Raphael,
:29:26. > :29:28.and from Sebastiano, This picture was at the centre
:29:29. > :29:34.of the extraordinary rivalry between Raphael and Michelangelo,
:29:35. > :29:39.with Sebastiano actually painting on behalf, one
:29:40. > :29:43.could say, of Michelangelo. So, in a way, it's a sort
:29:44. > :29:45.of proxy battle between Could Sebastiano have done this
:29:46. > :29:52.without Michelangelo? Michelangelo is fundamental
:29:53. > :29:57.for Sebastiano's development. This sort of heroic, Titanic
:29:58. > :30:04.character of the representations, these over-life-sized figures
:30:05. > :30:06.who are full of dynamic energy, these come absolutely out
:30:07. > :30:11.of the mind of Michelangelo. Their remarkable creative
:30:12. > :30:16.collaboration continued even after Raphael's death in 1520,
:30:17. > :30:18.but eventually ended in acrimony, with Michelangelo accusing the now
:30:19. > :30:28.well-to-do Sebastiano of laziness. Newsnight's about to begin over
:30:29. > :30:44.on BBC Two in a few moments. For the last year now, the story has
:30:45. > :30:48.been populism on the march. Have the Dutch just decided to stand in the
:30:49. > :30:53.way? Will have the latest from me. And we will ask why so many more
:30:54. > :30:56.people over the age of 65 are getting married these days.