:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten: President Trump is defiant after sacking the head
:00:09. > :00:20.Explosive news out of Washington tonight.
:00:21. > :00:22.The abrupt dismissal of James Comey triggers political shockwaves
:00:23. > :00:24.but Donald Trump claims he had lost the confidence of almost
:00:25. > :00:27.REPORTER: Why did you fire Director Comey?
:00:28. > :00:29.Because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply.
:00:30. > :00:34.Heading back to Washington, stripped of his job,
:00:35. > :00:36.James Comey had been investigating links between Trump's
:00:37. > :00:39.Are people going to suspect cover-up?
:00:40. > :00:49.We'll be asking what impact James Comey's departure will have.
:00:50. > :00:55.No Conservatives will face charges for breaches of expenses rules over
:00:56. > :00:58.the 2015 general election says the Crown Prosecution Service.
:00:59. > :01:04.Labour and the Lib Dems take the election campaign
:01:05. > :01:06.to the classroom, both pledging billions more pounds for education
:01:07. > :01:10.The 11-year-old girl who died on a school trip to a theme
:01:11. > :01:12.park in Staffordshire, her family says their world
:01:13. > :01:15.As US-backed forces drive more Islamic State extremists
:01:16. > :01:17.from their strongholds, we talk to the foreign fighters
:01:18. > :01:22.50 years after their debut album, we talk to Pink Floyd ahead
:01:23. > :01:27.of the opening of a new exhibition charting the band's success.
:01:28. > :01:30.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Atletico Madrid needed an
:01:31. > :01:35.almighty comeback to beat city rivals Real.
:01:36. > :01:37.Who would be joining Juventus for the Champions League
:01:38. > :02:02.President Trump has defended his decision to fire
:02:03. > :02:04.the head of the FBI, insisting that James Comey's
:02:05. > :02:09.replacement would do a far better job.
:02:10. > :02:12.The President claims America's most senior law enforcement official had
:02:13. > :02:16.lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington and said
:02:17. > :02:19.Republicans and Democrats alike would eventually thank him.
:02:20. > :02:22.James Comey was leading an FBI investigation into alleged links
:02:23. > :02:24.between the Trump campaign team and Russia.
:02:25. > :02:26.His abrupt removal has brought charges from some
:02:27. > :02:32.Here's our North America editor Jon Sopel.
:02:33. > :02:39.FBI Director James Comey has been fired by the President
:02:40. > :02:42.The term breaking news is banded around with abandon.
:02:43. > :02:47.Because at FBI offices the first they knew that their director had
:02:48. > :02:50.been fired was when it flashed up on their TV screens.
:02:51. > :02:52.And James Comey, who was in Los Angeles addressing staff,
:02:53. > :02:56.knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him
:02:57. > :03:02.a note and the letter sent by President Trump was brutal.
:03:03. > :03:05."You are hereby terminated and removed from office,
:03:06. > :03:11.At least they left him the Government jet to fly
:03:12. > :03:12.back to the east coast, a private citizen,
:03:13. > :03:21.And today the President was unrepentant.
:03:22. > :03:23.REPORTER: Why did you fire Director Comey?
:03:24. > :03:25.Because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply.
:03:26. > :03:32.James Comey, the 6'8" tall FBI director, was the person
:03:33. > :03:35.who confirmed in bombshell testimony in March that the Trump campaign
:03:36. > :03:37.was under investigation for its links to Russia
:03:38. > :03:40.The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission,
:03:41. > :03:42.is investigating the Russian Government's efforts to interfere
:03:43. > :03:50.The President has railed consistently that it's fake
:03:51. > :03:53.news and there has been no improper conduct.
:03:54. > :03:56.Last night, he fired the man heading the inquiry.
:03:57. > :04:01.It's caused fury and dismay among some Republicans and all Democrats.
:04:02. > :04:04.We know Director Comey was leading an investigation
:04:05. > :04:07.in whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians,
:04:08. > :04:15.Were those investigations getting too close to home for President?
:04:16. > :04:21.The dismissal of Director Comey establishes a very
:04:22. > :04:26.And Democrats have wasted no time in drawing parallels with the dark
:04:27. > :04:28.days of the Nixon presidency when Richard Nixon, in 1973,
:04:29. > :04:31.fired the special prosecutor investigating him over the break-in
:04:32. > :04:35.It was known as the Saturday Night Massacre.
:04:36. > :04:42.For special prosecutor then, insert FBI director today.
:04:43. > :04:49.One of the most staggering, stunning acts of a President
:04:50. > :04:53.compromising an investigation since the Saturday Night Massacre
:04:54. > :05:02.In fact, it was a Nixonion act and reminds us all
:05:03. > :05:04.about the importance of the rule of law, which evidently
:05:05. > :05:08.But the White House is seeking to persuade people that the decision
:05:09. > :05:11.to fire Comey had nothing to do with Russia or the FBI
:05:12. > :05:16.It was time for a fresh start at the FBI.
:05:17. > :05:19.And I think the President did, as he's done in so many other cases,
:05:20. > :05:21.he took decisive action, he provided strong leadership
:05:22. > :05:28.and to act on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general.
:05:29. > :05:30.The White House says the loss of confidence stems
:05:31. > :05:33.from James Comey's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use
:05:34. > :05:36.of a private e-mail server from when she was Secretary of State.
:05:37. > :05:40.I made a mistake using a private e-mail.
:05:41. > :05:44.He decided last July there would be no prosecution,
:05:45. > :05:54.Then, stunningly, he reopened his inquiry 11 days before polling.
:05:55. > :05:59.It took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made.
:06:00. > :06:02.But if it really is all about the way the FBI conducted
:06:03. > :06:05.the Hillary Clinton investigation, why sack him now?
:06:06. > :06:11.Why not do it when Donald Trump first came to office?
:06:12. > :06:14.And how do you reconcile it with the praise that was
:06:15. > :06:20.Whatever, it's left the FBI feeling very sore about the way
:06:21. > :06:29.And into the Washington maelstrom who should arrive today
:06:30. > :06:31.for his first visit to see the Trump administration, why none
:06:32. > :06:33.other than Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister.
:06:34. > :06:42.He then went to meet Donald Trump at the White House but curiously
:06:43. > :06:44.for the camera-loving President the press was kept away.
:06:45. > :06:49.This feels like House of Cards on steroids.
:06:50. > :06:53.And Jon's at the White House for us tonight.
:06:54. > :06:59.Such shock across Washington today an extraordinary political moment.
:07:00. > :07:08.Yeah, I think this is one of those once in a generation occurrences,
:07:09. > :07:12.you know, I think it was Mark Twain who said history doesn't repeat
:07:13. > :07:17.itself but it rhymes, the only other FBI director you have seen sacked
:07:18. > :07:22.was by Bill Clinton in 1993, but perhaps the nearest parallel is with
:07:23. > :07:25.Richard Nixon in 1973 when he was being investigated by a special
:07:26. > :07:30.prosecutor and he fired him and that led as we all know to the end of
:07:31. > :07:35.Richard Nixon having to resign in disgrace. One thing we have learned
:07:36. > :07:39.from all of this, this is remember only 110 days or so into the Trump
:07:40. > :07:44.presidency, we have so far seen now the head of the FBI fired, we have
:07:45. > :07:48.seen the acting Attorney General fired, we have seen the senior
:07:49. > :07:51.attorney in New York fired. It tells us that the most dangerous place to
:07:52. > :07:56.stand is anywhere where Donald Trump is moving and he wants to get to and
:07:57. > :08:00.you are in the way. Where does this leave the investigation into Russian
:08:01. > :08:04.links to the Trump campaign team? Well, I think there are going to be
:08:05. > :08:10.all sorts of calls now, we have seen some today for a special prosecutor
:08:11. > :08:13.to be appointed so that it is at arm's length from the Justice
:08:14. > :08:18.Department who were instrumental in the firing of James Comey. He
:08:19. > :08:22.himself has been invited to give evidence next Tuesday to the Senate
:08:23. > :08:25.intelligence committee. I think touts would be able to do good
:08:26. > :08:29.business there were it not for the fact it's held in private. I guess
:08:30. > :08:35.the wider issue is this, Donald Trump insists there is nothing there
:08:36. > :08:39.to see over Russia, there has been no improper conduct and it's all
:08:40. > :08:44.fake news. But what had Donald Trump done, has he made this story go away
:08:45. > :08:46.or given it booster rockets? An awful lot of people think it's the
:08:47. > :08:50.latter. Thank you.
:08:51. > :08:52.The Conservative Party has welcomed the decision
:08:53. > :08:54.of the Crown Prosecution Service not to bring criminal charges against
:08:55. > :09:00.any of its politicians or officials following an investigation
:09:01. > :09:03.into alleged breaches of election expenses rules in 2015.
:09:04. > :09:04.The Conservatives called the allegations politically
:09:05. > :09:07.motivated and a waste of police time but the CPS says it's
:09:08. > :09:09.still considering one case relating to the south Thanet
:09:10. > :09:14.Here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds.
:09:15. > :09:23.The last general election, Conservative activists tour
:09:24. > :09:25.the country by battle bus, staying in a string
:09:26. > :09:29.of hotels as they campaign for local candidates.
:09:30. > :09:32.Party officials declared the cost of this as national election
:09:33. > :09:37.And political rivals said the law had been broken.
:09:38. > :09:44.But today prosecutors decided there was no case to answer.
:09:45. > :09:48.After full and lengthy investigation, the legal
:09:49. > :09:50.authorities have confirmed what we believed all along,
:09:51. > :09:54.and what we said all along, which was that the expenses,
:09:55. > :09:57.that local spending was properly reported, was properly declared
:09:58. > :09:59.and that the candidates had done nothing wrong.
:10:00. > :10:02.Prosecutors said today that under the relevant law it must be
:10:03. > :10:04.proved that a suspect, that's the local official
:10:05. > :10:06.putting in the declaration, knew the return was inaccurate
:10:07. > :10:20.and acted dishonestly in signing the declaration.
:10:21. > :10:23.But in these cases the local officials said they'd
:10:24. > :10:26.been told what to do by the national party,
:10:27. > :10:28.which wasn't prosecuted but did receive a record penalty
:10:29. > :10:32.Gregg Kinsell and his partner Louise were also on the bus supporting
:10:33. > :10:36.But they went to the police about how the campaign was run.
:10:37. > :10:40.I think this is absolutely disgusting, it's a cover-up
:10:41. > :10:42.on a huge level and I think that the Electoral Commission
:10:43. > :10:47.are involved in it, and I think the CPS and the Government.
:10:48. > :10:49.I think it's all to deflect attention from what really goes
:10:50. > :11:03.The candidate and former MP for South Thanet, Craig Mackinlay,
:11:04. > :11:05.avoiding interviews today, could still be charged.
:11:06. > :11:07.Prosecutors are reviewing spending in his constituency
:11:08. > :11:11.Tomorrow is the last day on which he could be replaced
:11:12. > :11:16.But he's not going to hear about any prosecution by then.
:11:17. > :11:18.So, for now, it seems the Conservatives are pushing
:11:19. > :11:21.on with him as their candidate, no doubt holding their breaths.
:11:22. > :11:30.Labour and the Liberal Democrats have both promised to invest
:11:31. > :11:32.billions of pounds more in education if they win the election.
:11:33. > :11:35.Labour is promising an extra ?8.4 billion by 2022 in England,
:11:36. > :11:37.that's at least four times more than the Lib Dems.
:11:38. > :11:40.But both say they'd pay for it by significantly
:11:41. > :11:44.The Conservatives say school funding has already reached record levels
:11:45. > :11:47.and accused their rivals of made up promises.
:11:48. > :11:54.Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys reports.
:11:55. > :11:56.We're going to take lots of measurements of how long it takes
:11:57. > :12:03.Measuring the speed of sound in Cambridge.
:12:04. > :12:07.Today a lesson in politics as well as science -
:12:08. > :12:09.news travelling of money for education.
:12:10. > :12:14.At a college in Leeds it was all about lifelong learning.
:12:15. > :12:15.Labour promising to invest in adult training but,
:12:16. > :12:19.most of all, in schools, paid for by a rise
:12:20. > :12:24.We have a problem in Britain, we have not invested enough
:12:25. > :12:29.enough in infrastructure, we have not invested enough
:12:30. > :12:36.in the skilled workers, engineers, scientists and teachers of tomorrow.
:12:37. > :12:39.We are determined to turn that round.
:12:40. > :12:45.Labour promises for England include extra money each year for schools,
:12:46. > :12:47.reaching ?4.8 billion by 2022, almost a 10% increase
:12:48. > :12:52.?1.5 billion extra for adult skills training, and no school losing under
:12:53. > :12:55.a funding formula to share out money across England.
:12:56. > :13:03.The party also says it would spend ?5.8 billion extra on schools
:13:04. > :13:09.in England over the next four years, and more for poorer pupils.
:13:10. > :13:13.The Lib Dems suggested they would also raise
:13:14. > :13:20.Two thirds of schools, it now turns out today,
:13:21. > :13:23.are trying to lay off at least one teacher, losing at least
:13:24. > :13:24.one teaching post in the next two months.
:13:25. > :13:27.Under that kind of pressure, there needs to be a response,
:13:28. > :13:30.a fully costed response, to build a future for all of our
:13:31. > :13:33.children so we can have a decent education and be confident in that.
:13:34. > :13:36.Schools in Cambridgeshire are among the lowest funded in England.
:13:37. > :13:40.All the secondary teachers here wrote to parents with a warning.
:13:41. > :13:42.We've said there will be fewer teachers and fewer
:13:43. > :13:44.teaching assistants, we've said there will be fewer
:13:45. > :13:46.resources in classrooms, whether that is exercise books,
:13:47. > :13:54.Fewer opportunities for students to perhaps go on trips
:13:55. > :13:58.We have said across the board there will be an impact and reductions.
:13:59. > :14:01.This school is one of thousands across England that have
:14:02. > :14:03.been writing to parents, spelling out the difficult financial
:14:04. > :14:10.That has galvanised parents to lobby MPs of all parties.
:14:11. > :14:15.It is that grassroots pressure which has really pushed school
:14:16. > :14:23.The costs in schools are rising faster than budget,
:14:24. > :14:26.but today the Conservatives defended their record.
:14:27. > :14:29.First of all, school funding is at record levels.
:14:30. > :14:35.Within that we're putting record number of funding
:14:36. > :14:39.into early education, protected the school pupil premium
:14:40. > :14:43.But what matters in education is, actually, it's not just
:14:44. > :14:46.about the funding, it's about the results you see
:14:47. > :14:48.and the education you are providing for the children.
:14:49. > :14:53.Labour and Lib Dems say there will also be extra education
:14:54. > :15:02.Today, for young voters, no details yet on tuition fees.
:15:03. > :15:05.Labour might well promise to scrap them in its manifesto,
:15:06. > :15:08.an issue still toxic for the Lib Dems after they broke
:15:09. > :15:17.So the big boost in funding for schools under Labour
:15:18. > :15:20.and the Lib Dems would be paid for by a significant
:15:21. > :15:23.Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed has been looking at how
:15:24. > :15:26.much could be raised and what impact it would have on
:15:27. > :15:37.It seems a pretty simple equation, put more money into public services
:15:38. > :15:43.Labour and the Liberal Democrats say they want to pay for the planned
:15:44. > :15:46.boost to the schools budget by increasing corporation tax
:15:47. > :15:55.The present rate is 19%, a figure which has fallen
:15:56. > :16:04.Labour has said it wants to raise the rate to 26% by 2021,
:16:05. > :16:07.one of the biggest tax rises business has seen for three decades.
:16:08. > :16:14.The Conservatives on the other hand want to keep cutting the tax saying
:16:15. > :16:19.they will reduce the rate to 17% by 2020.
:16:20. > :16:25.The big question, of course, will a business tax rise bring
:16:26. > :16:28.in the ?20 billion all Labour's policy, for example, needs.
:16:29. > :16:31.The Labour Party proposals would certainly raise more than enough
:16:32. > :16:33.from corporation tax to pay for these increases in school funding,
:16:34. > :16:36.but of course an increase in corporation tax has significant
:16:37. > :16:43.It will reduce investment by companies in the UK
:16:44. > :16:47.and in the long one it won't raise as much as it might in the short
:16:48. > :16:49.run, as companies change their behaviour, reduce investment,
:16:50. > :16:54.Now, the surprising thing about corporation
:16:55. > :16:58.tax is this: cutting it can bring in more money and raising it can
:16:59. > :17:01.As firms change the way they operate to avoid
:17:02. > :17:07.In 2010, when corporation tax was 28%, it raised ?43 billion
:17:08. > :17:17.By 2016 the tax had been cut to 20%, but that amount raised figure had
:17:18. > :17:26.gone up to ?49.7 billion, confounding the official forecast.
:17:27. > :17:28.That's because the economy strengthened, boosting profits, and
:17:29. > :17:32.the government introduced other business taxes.
:17:33. > :17:35.Labour says it can continue the trend of increasing
:17:36. > :17:38.the amount of tax firms pay and others agree that raising
:17:39. > :17:51.Even if a future Labour government raised
:17:52. > :17:54.corporation tax, Britain is still likely to be only about in the
:17:55. > :17:56.middle of all the developed countries for the rate.
:17:57. > :17:58.Germany has much higher rates of corporation
:17:59. > :18:01.And there's no evidence it's the rate of
:18:02. > :18:03.corporation tax which determines how much companies invest in your
:18:04. > :18:07.Companies invest in Germany because they have good skills, they
:18:08. > :18:08.have a very supportive environment, and not
:18:09. > :18:09.because corporation tax is
:18:10. > :18:13.Now there is nothing wrong in using official forecasts to say
:18:14. > :18:16.how much money you will raise by changing tax rates as Labour
:18:17. > :18:28.Voters should be aware, though, those forecasts can be very wrong.
:18:29. > :18:36.Thank you. The BBC has tonight obtained a copy
:18:37. > :18:41.of the draft Labour manifesto which has been leaked ahead of its
:18:42. > :18:45.expected publication next week. Our political corresponding Chris Mason
:18:46. > :18:49.is in Westminster, this is not what Labour would have wanted, how has it
:18:50. > :18:54.happened? The publication of an election manifesto was normally a
:18:55. > :18:59.huge set piece moment for any party, a day in the sun when a party can
:19:00. > :19:03.set out its stall, set out its governing agenda and mantra, worried
:19:04. > :19:10.to win the election. The Labour manifesto was due to be published
:19:11. > :19:14.next week but the Daily Telegraph, the Mirror and the BBC have got hold
:19:15. > :19:17.of draft copies tonight. What ideas are in there? A big nationalisation
:19:18. > :19:21.programme, energy firms, bus firms and the Royal Mail. A promise to
:19:22. > :19:26.entirely abolish university Jewish and fees in England. On defence, a
:19:27. > :19:38.desire to achieve a nuclear free world, as it is described, but they
:19:39. > :19:43.advocate the Trident nuclear weapon session... Systems. -- a promise to
:19:44. > :19:47.entirely abolish university tuition fees. Some people feel there is
:19:48. > :19:51.something to be gained from leaking the sensitive document. The Labour
:19:52. > :19:52.Party tonight said it does not comment on leaks. Thank you, Chris
:19:53. > :19:56.Mason. Three women, who were arrested
:19:57. > :19:58.during an anti-terrorism operation in north London and Kent ten days
:19:59. > :20:01.ago have been charged with preparing a terrorist act
:20:02. > :20:03.and conspiracy to murder. They include 21-year-old
:20:04. > :20:05.Rizlaine Boular, who was shot during a police raid
:20:06. > :20:07.at a property in Willesden. They'll appear at
:20:08. > :20:08.Westminster Magistrates' The family of an 11-year-old
:20:09. > :20:16.who died on a school trip to a theme park in Staffordshire yesterday
:20:17. > :20:20.say their world has been torn apart. Ehva Jannath from Leicester fell
:20:21. > :20:23.from a water ride at Drayton Manor. She was pulled from the water,
:20:24. > :20:25.but died later in hospital. The park will remain closed tomorrow
:20:26. > :20:28.while investigations continue. Evha Jannath, the 11-year-old girl
:20:29. > :20:35.who lost her life during the school The emergency services
:20:36. > :20:40.arrived quickly, staff and paramedics tried to save her,
:20:41. > :20:43.but she was pronounced dead Today, investigators are examining
:20:44. > :20:48.the Splash Canyon ride and trying to work out how she fell
:20:49. > :20:53.into the water. There is a height restriction,
:20:54. > :20:56.which means that young children who are between three and three
:20:57. > :20:59.and a half feet tall have to be Although people aren't strapped in,
:21:00. > :21:04.they are told to remain seated. This was Patrick Treacy just
:21:05. > :21:07.after he fell in the water on the same ride four years ago
:21:08. > :21:10.when he was ten. Parents really should
:21:11. > :21:14.be aware of what... Of how safe their children are going
:21:15. > :21:18.to be when they go on these rides. They look pretty calm, but they're
:21:19. > :21:21.actually quite dangerous. And when children aren't
:21:22. > :21:23.accompanied, I think seat Evha's school is shut today,
:21:24. > :21:30.staff and pupils have been She was a lovely, sweet-natured
:21:31. > :21:34.girl, and she was loved As a school and as a community,
:21:35. > :21:41.we are trying to make sense Our thoughts and our prayers
:21:42. > :21:47.are with Evha's family at this Evha's family has issued
:21:48. > :21:52.a statement saying their world They described her as a beautiful
:21:53. > :21:57.little girl who was full They say that words cannot
:21:58. > :22:03.describe their pain and loss. The park was empty today -
:22:04. > :22:05.Drayton Manor decided to close Phil Mackie, BBC
:22:06. > :22:11.News, Staffordshire. In Syria, US backed forces have made
:22:12. > :22:14.significant gains as they prepare to launch an assault on so-called
:22:15. > :22:16.Islamic state's last major They've just recaptured the city
:22:17. > :22:23.of Tabqa from IS and retaken a nearby dam, the largest in Syria,
:22:24. > :22:33.after weeks of fighting. As the so-called Islamic State
:22:34. > :22:36.extremists continue to lose ground, large numbers of foreign fighters
:22:37. > :22:38.are now trying to get Dozens of them are currently
:22:39. > :22:42.being held in northern Syria. The BBC has gained exclusive access
:22:43. > :22:44.to some of the prisoners, From the north of Aleppo province,
:22:45. > :22:48.our Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman
:22:49. > :22:50.Fred Scott sent this report. The Free Syrian Army
:22:51. > :22:52.are driving out IS. Here in northern Syria,
:22:53. > :22:53.the so-called Islamic But what happens to its believers
:22:54. > :22:59.and converts, those that abandoned These camps are for civilians,
:23:00. > :23:09.the most desperate, The camps here in northern Syria
:23:10. > :23:18.are being overwhelmed. People are fleeing fighting
:23:19. > :23:20.on a number of fronts, and this is before the big attack
:23:21. > :23:26.on the IS de facto capital, Raqqa. IS fighters and their families
:23:27. > :23:28.are trying to get out, Many of them are being captured
:23:29. > :23:34.here before they even make it We were given exclusive
:23:35. > :23:39.access to one jail holding They are a threat and distrusted
:23:40. > :23:45.so are heavily guarded These are the personal belongings
:23:46. > :23:55.of IS prisoners and defectors. Hundreds have been
:23:56. > :23:56.captured, including whole Mohammad Atalla and his wife
:23:57. > :24:09.left Niems in France He says he doesn't hate France
:24:10. > :24:14.and wants to return. TRANSLATION: A friend came
:24:15. > :24:17.and told me I should leave Life under the Islamic State
:24:18. > :24:29.in Syria is difficult. TRANSLATION: I had
:24:30. > :24:37.a normal life in France. Europe doesn't want them back
:24:38. > :24:51.and the fighters who control TRANSLATION: They
:24:52. > :24:59.are a burden on us. There is a huge number of defectors
:25:00. > :25:03.here in the northern countryside, and we don't have the ability
:25:04. > :25:06.to look after them. If we got more help
:25:07. > :25:08.from their countries in Europe, then many more IS members
:25:09. > :25:16.would defect and give themselves up. And the BBC spoke to
:25:17. > :25:19.a British man inside Syria - Stefan Aristidou, who left for Raqqa
:25:20. > :25:24.two years ago. Despite joining IS willingly,
:25:25. > :25:27.he now appealed for rescue. He's since escaped to Turkey,
:25:28. > :26:00.where he's been held in jail. A people smuggler we met was helping
:26:01. > :26:05.Stefan Aristidou escape. He says IS has set traps
:26:06. > :26:13.for those fleeing. TRANSLATION: The number defecting
:26:14. > :26:16.is increasing a lot, but their main problem is IS sleeper
:26:17. > :26:20.cells pretending to be smugglers. They make contact with members
:26:21. > :26:23.trying to leave and hand them over IS prisons are full
:26:24. > :26:33.of people who try to defect. The scale of the
:26:34. > :26:36.problem is enormous. We visited three different prisons,
:26:37. > :26:38.all holding IS fighters TRANSLATION: There was a kind
:26:39. > :26:51.of compulsion for foreign fighters "It's not your business,"
:26:52. > :26:56.we were told. So we fought and we
:26:57. > :27:00.didn't ask questions. The caliphate is in ruins
:27:01. > :27:03.and its converts are lost. The Free Syrian Army can't
:27:04. > :27:06.hold them much longer, so the dangerous and the unwanted
:27:07. > :27:09.from IS increasingly have nowhere Quentin Sommerville,
:27:10. > :27:36.BBC News, Northern Aleppo. It was the record-breaking transfer
:27:37. > :27:38.of last summer. Paul Pogba's 83 -- ?89.3 million move from Juventus to
:27:39. > :27:40.Manchester United. Football's world governing body
:27:41. > :27:42.wants to know who was involved in the deal, amid claims that
:27:43. > :27:44.Pogba's agent earned more than ?40 million
:27:45. > :27:46.from the transaction. He came to England with the biggest
:27:47. > :27:50.price tag football's ever seen - Paul Pogba moved from Juventus
:27:51. > :27:53.to Manchester United last year The transfer was also highly
:27:54. > :27:56.lucrative for this man - the French midfielder's
:27:57. > :27:58.representative, Mino Raiola, one Earlier, Pogba arrived for training
:27:59. > :28:04.ahead of the Europa League semifinal tomorrow, but his club are facing
:28:05. > :28:06.questions over how Paul Pogba's occasionally put
:28:07. > :28:11.in the kind of performance for Manchester United that goes some
:28:12. > :28:14.way to justifying his remarkable transfer fee, but it now appears
:28:15. > :28:18.that it could be the amount of money that his agent received
:28:19. > :28:20.that is the most eye-catching According to a new book
:28:21. > :28:27.published in Germany, That included ?23 million
:28:28. > :28:32.of the ?89 million transfer fee and a further ?16 million
:28:33. > :28:34.from United in five future instalments, plus ?2 million
:28:35. > :28:43.extra from Pogba himself. Fifa are investigating,
:28:44. > :28:46.confirming here at their annual congress in Bahrain that they've
:28:47. > :28:48.written to United Pogba hasn't commented,
:28:49. > :28:54.while Mino Raiola says the matter United, meanwhile, feel
:28:55. > :29:00.the deal was legitimate. Jose, the story about Paul's
:29:01. > :29:02.transfer, does that affect you or does that affect
:29:03. > :29:05.the player at all? We're not here to discuss
:29:06. > :29:07.that, we're just here He asks if it affects,
:29:08. > :29:15.it doesn't affect. But some in the game
:29:16. > :29:18.feel it's gone too far. The chairman of League Two
:29:19. > :29:20.Accrington Stanley today telling me what he made of the money allegedly
:29:21. > :29:25.paid to Raiola. Probably 20 times the cost
:29:26. > :29:29.of running Accrington Stanley a year in one agent's fee,
:29:30. > :29:33.from one club. If you can afford 41 million to pay
:29:34. > :29:36.an agent for a player, The Premier League makes the point
:29:37. > :29:45.that it is superstars like Pogba that drive its global appeal
:29:46. > :29:47.and enable it to redistribute ?200 million a season
:29:48. > :29:52.to Football League clubs, but for others it's the vast amounts
:29:53. > :29:55.going to the money men behind It's 50 years since Pink Floyd
:29:56. > :30:05.recorded their debut album. And to mark the occasion,
:30:06. > :30:07.a new exhibition is opening at London's Victoria
:30:08. > :30:10.and Albert Museum this weekend. It tells the story of the band
:30:11. > :30:13.and how they gradually retreated from view,
:30:14. > :30:14.preferring instead to create Their guitarist David Gilmour
:30:15. > :30:19.said they'd come up with the maddest ideas -
:30:20. > :30:22.but there was no one to stop them. Our arts correspondent David Sillito
:30:23. > :30:32.has been talking to the band. The Queen Elizabeth Hall,
:30:33. > :30:36.a classical music venue, hosted what was to become a landmark
:30:37. > :30:41.in rock history. The lights, the surround
:30:42. > :30:43.sound, the psychedelia. The Summer of Love had arrived -
:30:44. > :30:49.and was being featured on the BBC. The Pink Floyd, they have
:30:50. > :30:52.an audience, and people who have an audience ought
:30:53. > :30:55.to be heard. Perhaps it's my fault that
:30:56. > :31:03.I don't appreciate them. 50 years on, this exhibition tells
:31:04. > :31:06.the story of how Pink Floyd helped turn rock music
:31:07. > :31:14.into a visual spectacle. We would have the maddest
:31:15. > :31:17.ideas and we'd follow Obviously some of them were just too
:31:18. > :31:22.mad and got discarded, but we put a lot of time and energy
:31:23. > :31:35.and effort into the strangest ideas. There was no-one to tell us
:31:36. > :31:39."You can't do it that way," because we just would do
:31:40. > :31:42.it whatever way... And we were young
:31:43. > :31:45.and arrogant and... It was an era of massive
:31:46. > :31:54.experimentation and there was a whole generation of designers
:31:55. > :31:57.and architects creating things that they thought no
:31:58. > :32:00.one would ever built. The elaborate stage designs,
:32:01. > :32:13.the giant inflatable The visuals were vital for a band
:32:14. > :32:20.that was increasingly I do remember that when we went
:32:21. > :32:26.on the road there was a big I think we were a bit
:32:27. > :32:41.po-faced and snotty. It is in many ways a record
:32:42. > :32:45.of an era that has now passed. When albums ruled and no one was
:32:46. > :33:18.counting the cost of rock excess. Here is Evan with details.
:33:19. > :33:24.Tonight, a draft of the Labour manifesto has leaked, we will have
:33:25. > :33:25.an extended peep at what is in it. Join me on BBC Two. On