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Tonight at Ten: flashing images.? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Donald Trump faces the most serious allegations | :00:08. | :00:08. | |
He's accused of asking former FBI boss James Comey to halt | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
the investigation into links between his former national | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Donald Trump hasn't yet responded directly to the latest | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
allegations against him, but he remains defiant. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
has been treated worse, or more unfairly. | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
But tonight as pressure intensifies on the President, | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
he's facing growing criticism from within his own party. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
I think we've seen this movie before. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
I think it's reaching the stage where it's | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
After the turbulence of the first few months, | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
we'll be asking how serious a moment this is for the Trump presidency. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
The Liberal Democrats launch their election manifesto | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
pledging another referendum on any Brexit deal. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Meanwhile, new measures to curb immigration are understood | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
to be among the pledges in the Conservatives' | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
A record number of people in work, but there are more warnings | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
And trying to fight digital propaganda - | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
the millions of fake profiles created on social media | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News: | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
There's so much at stake in the Championship | :01:35. | :01:35. | |
as Sheffield Wedmnesday and Huddersfield look to reach | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
President Trump is facing what his critics say | :01:38. | :02:04. | |
are the most serious allegations to beset his presidency so far. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
He has been accused of trying to get the former head of the FBI, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
James Comey - who he sacked last week - to drop an investigation | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
into links between his former National Security Adviser | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
The claims have prompted a small but growing number | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
of the President's fellow Republicans to call for | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
an independent inquiry into links between the Trump Administration | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel reports. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Chuck Schumer, And Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump was today on the way to | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
the coastguard Academy as his administration seemed to be listing. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Our commander in chief, Donald Trump. This has been the most torrid | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
week of the presidency and though he didn't address each individual set | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
back there was a message. No politician in history, and I say | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
this with great surety, has been treated worse, or more unfairly. You | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
cannot let them get you down. I didn't get elected to serve the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Washington media, I got elected to serve the forgotten men and women of | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
our country and that's what I'm doing. He has become more famous | :03:21. | :03:33. | |
than me zmrchlt his. The disclose that James Comey kept notes of his | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
meetings with the president, including over the sacked Michael | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Flynn is serious. Donald Trump is reported to have said to Comey: | :03:42. | :03:57. | |
Amid allegation that this amounted to obstruction of justice the White | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
House denied any wrong doing, saying the president hadn't told the FBI | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
director to stop his work. It brought this from the democratic | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
leader. The president says what Comey says was wrong. Prove it. It | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
is easy to prove. As long as there are tapes or transcripts of what | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
happened. If the president's right, he will have no problem releasing | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
memos, tapes, transcripts that corroborate his story. Other | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
democrats have started using the I word. I rise today Mr Speaker to | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
call for the impeachment of the president of the United States of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
America. For obstruction of justice. This is not good for America. Some | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
influential Republicans too are growing restive with comparisons to | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the days of Nixon. I think we have seen this movie before, I think it's | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
reaching the point where it is of Watergate size and scale and a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
couple of other scandals that you and I have seen. It has been a bad | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
week, last Tuesday came the firing of James Comey with the White House | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
giving muddled explanations about why and then the president seemed to | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
threaten Comey saying he had better hopes there are no tapes of our | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
conversation. And the president divulged material to the Russian | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
foreign minister. But what about the mood outside Washington? In the home | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
of country and western, in Nashville, the Trump loyalists are | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
not changing tune. They're still singing stand by your man. You can't | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
tell me that all these leaks and comments that come through almost | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
daily are not because people are trying to subvert the president. The | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
things they're saying about him is a lie. All the immediates are | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
democrats and left-wingers, they don't want to see him do well or | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
America do well. They just want to give America away. The president, | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
who returned to the White House tonight will be buoyed by this | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
support but that is kwha gets you elected. Not what keeps you in power | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
and this administration can't afford any more weeks like the one that's | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
just gone. How serious a moment this is for | :06:28. | :06:40. | |
Donald Trump? If you drew up a league table of the allegations that | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
have swirled around Donald Trump and looked at what was the most serious, | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
I think potentially this memo from James Comey is the most serious. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Like any good detective he has kept notes of his meetings with Donald | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Trump and if it was a court of law, that would be entirely admissible as | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
evidence. The notes of an FBI person. So that presents a problem | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
for Donald Trump and some say he will be impeached now. Impeachment | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
is, for a start you have got to have a huge burden of proof. But it has | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
never happened in US history. It not only has to pass the House of | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Representatives, it becomes a trial in the Senate and you need a two | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
thirds majority for that to happen. That is still unlike and still | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
premature to talk about this, but it has been a torrid week for the White | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
House and you have seen members of staff feeling insecure about their | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
jobs, the president has made mis-steps, you see on Capitol Hill | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
the Republicans feeling uncertain about the future. It has sometimes | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
felt like we are going through a daily soap opera, an improbable plot | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
line, but what we are not yet at is the season end, that still has a | :08:03. | :08:16. | |
long way to go. Thank you. The BBC understands the Conservativing will | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
promise to curb immigration when they publish their manifesto | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
tomorrow. Let's talk to our political editor in Westminster. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
These are the first details we are getting. Yes the publication of any | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
manifesto is a big deal for a party leader, particularly for Theresa | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
May, because of course this is the first big document to come from the | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Conservatives since she has been in charge and it is her decision to | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
call the election and her calculation that the ideas that she | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
and her team will put forward will be enough to keep her on in Downing | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Street and one of those first messages is an uncompromising one on | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
imdprags. Migration. It is her calculation that voters say | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
immigration must come down and she will say immigration is too high and | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
when immigration is too high that has consequences for society. The | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
question is of course then well what is she going to do. Don't forget as | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Home Secretary in charge for six years, she missed that target of | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
bringing immigration down to under a hundred thousand. Tomorrow she will | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
recommit to that figure and make that promise again that if elected | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
under her leadership immigration will come down to under 100,000. She | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
will also say that student numbers will stay in those immigration | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
figures and there has been pressure on her to change that, arguments | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
that it creates a false picture. But she will also propose extra charges | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
for employers who bring in non-EU workers from around the world, she | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
will double the amounts they're expected to pay if they want to hire | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
them. There is a suggestion that people from around the world other | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
than the EU will have to pay more to use the NHS during the time they're | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
here. There will be plenty more big ideas on social care. But I think | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
broadly this is not going to be a manifesto that is full of hearts and | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
flowers, I think it is going to be a hard-headed document with Theresa | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
May's ambition, her calculation, is that by saying to the country, I | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
know there are problems that you wants me to fix, she will come | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
across as the leader that they believe can sort them. Thank you. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
The Liberal Democrats have - as expected - pledged to hold | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
a second referendum on the final Brexit deal | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
In their manifesto - which they launched today - | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the party promised to spend billions more on housing, | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
It would be funded in part by a penny increase on income tax. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Other policies include the legalisation of cannabis | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
and a future ban on sales of diesel cars and vans. | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Vicki Young. | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
Tim far Ron wants the election to be about Brexit. Someone is going to | :11:15. | :11:31. | |
have the final say. It could be the politicians, or it could be the | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
people. I believe it must be the people. But is his message getting | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
through? I caught up with him as he toured a school. Certainly there are | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
many people lacking hope. They think that the only thing on the table is | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Theresa May's bleak vision of us leaving the EU with a hard Brexit. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
There are many people who voted for Remain who accept that result, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
something you're unwilling to do and they feel you have got to get on | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
with it and many thing traichl is the person to do -- Theresa May is | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
the person to do. Many have given up the fight, what I'm saying is I | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
haven't. If you believe that Britain's future is better alongside | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
our neighbours in Europe, you should not be forced to accept a stitch up. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
You should have the final say. The manifesto promises ?8 billion of | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
investment in England and an increase in corporation tax and a | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
rise in income tax to fund spending on health and an end to the freeze | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
on working age benefits and to legalise cannabis. There is no | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
mention of abolishing tuition fees in England, a policy they abandoned | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
when they went into coalition with the Conservatives. Do you accept | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
tuition fees were the right thing to do? I voted against the rise. I | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
think it is important that people keep their word. That is why my | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
advice to others is don't make promises you can't keep. Would you | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
reverse it now? We have said we would put money to returning grants | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
to students to make sure it is affordable. In London the Liberal | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
Democrat hope to come back. The area voted against Brexit. So how is the | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
promise of another referendum going down. It is childish to think | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
because you don't like a decision that has been made and voted for | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
that you can go back and reverse it. This is democracy, this is the | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
country we live in and we should stand by that, even though the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
decision wasn't one that I liked. I don't think the fight should ever | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
stop. It is too important and too many lies and yeah we should carry | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
on fighting until we have no you know fight left in us. I was | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
disappointed about the news of a potential referendum chl I think | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
that ship has sailed and it is about getting the best kind of Brexit. How | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
many seats do you need too gain too keep your job 1234? We need above | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
all else is to offer the British people this one chance, the last | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
chance saloon for Britain, if you believe Britain is open, tolerant | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
and united and reject the extreme version of Brexit and want a better | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
future, the Liberal Democrats are the only party offering you hope. | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Two years ago the Liberal Democrats narrowly avoided election wipe out. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
But they hope the vote to leave the EU has thrown them a political | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
lifeline. Well the Lib Dems are hoping | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
to attract young voters - not just with that pledge | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
for another referendum on any Brexit deal, but also | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
with a number of other policies concerning housing | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
and the voting age. Our Home Editor Mark Easton | :15:01. | :15:01. | |
has been to Cambridge, a key target seat for the Lib Dems, | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
to see what young voters We're here to talk to | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
you about the election today. Let us know your | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
thoughts and tweet us. So often ignored by the politicians, | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
it's loud and clear at This could be about anything such | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
as Brexit, student tuition, Call Radio Cambridge broadcasts | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
to thousands of young voters in the Liberal Democrats' | :15:24. | :15:35. | |
number one target seat. I think politicians have to start | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
appealing to young people, because these young people | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
are going to grow old. I think there's many things that | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
need to be changed, such as tuition, health care, NHS - it | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
all needs to be different now and I think that a lot of people need | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
to take the young people's opinions The Liberal Democrat | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
manifesto promises young people cheaper bus fares, higher | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
welfare payments, help with housing Is lowering the voting | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
age the kind of policy that cuts it with these | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
student hairdressers? A lot of people my age | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
don't know enough about it and they kind | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
of they go with that their parents think, so | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
I don't think it's a great idea. Brexit's a big issue for you, | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
isn't it, explain why? Well, I'm a British citizen, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
but my parents are Portuguese and so are | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
the rest of my family. How do I know that nothing | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
will happen to them and they won't have to be going back | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
to their country and I'm just here? The Liberal Democrats | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
are saying they want a much softer Brexit that's | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
going to retain access to the single Is that appealing | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
for someone like you? I don't know if it's | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
going to be done. Political wisdom decrees that your | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
manifesto should appeal to people So the Liberal Democrats' | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
focus on younger 18 to 24-year-olds | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
are almost half as This college has been encouraging | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
students to register before next Monday's deadline, but cities | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
with large student populations have been reporting a big | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
drop in registrations. And there's a credibility issue | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
for the Liberal Democrats. After promising not to put up | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
university tuition fees in the 2010 election, they voted to do | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
just that in Government. Are the Liberal Democrats | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
damaged goods now? I don't really remember | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
when they put them up, I was probably just | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
finishing secondary school and stuff, so I didn't pay | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
attention to it. For me, knowing what they've | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
done, I wouldn't be I feel like they're stuck | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
in a catch-22, because what they're giving | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
is a mix in the middle. They're not going to completely | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
cut tuition fees, but they're going to offer | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
a maintenance grant, which is great, it is | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Everybody should be given the chance to go to uni. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
So these are Liberal Democrat target voters in a Liberal | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
I'm quite excited, but nervous at the same time. | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
For the party, a lot depends on how they respond to to promises | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
There are new warnings that workers are facing a squeeze | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
The latest figures indicate that wages are not keeping pace | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
However, another set of figures show that a record number | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
and good news on jobs - firms hiring plenty | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
of people as economic growth remains positive. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
We are continually recruiting staff, we have grown | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
really quickly in the last two years from four to 32 people. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
We've just employed our new park manager and we've | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
also employed in the last couple of months a new ground staff. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
At this moment on our company website, I think, we have 15 | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
The last time we saw unemployment this low was 1975, | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
when the price of a pint of milk was a princely seven pence. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
It was also an era of high inflation and | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
Today, inflation is creeping back and | :19:06. | :19:18. | |
Let's look at the more recent history of | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
If we go right back to the year 2000, | :19:23. | :19:23. | |
you can see that earnings were consistently above the rate | :19:24. | :19:23. | |
That came to an abrupt halt in 2008 when the financial | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Wages fell sharply and inflation rose, as things like the | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
That led to this long period of pay squeeze | :19:33. | :19:46. | |
and that didn't come to an end until September 2014. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
And until today, wages have stayed above the cost of | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
living, but the gap has been closing and today those lines crossed. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
Individual incomes on average are going down again. | :19:54. | :20:05. | |
Donna Spicer is a teaching assistant from south-east London. | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
She has faced a pay freeze for four years. | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
I have no social life because of no money to | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
and it's a choice of heating and eating. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
So one winter it was sitting there with blankets, hot | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
Low unemployment used to mean higher wages | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Higher inflation used to mean workers demanded increased pay | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
rises, but people are still concerned about asking for a pay | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
rise and the public sector pay freeze remains in place. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
The big question for 2017 is whether wages | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
respond to either of two big pressures - | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
If they don't, we're likely to see the pay squeeze continue for some | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
A way to produce more wealth from the hard hours we work? | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
That relies on productivity going up. | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
Until that problem is solved, the danger of a | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
The number of child migrants and refugees travelling alone | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
around the world has reached record numbers. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
The United Nations is warning that many of them are at risk | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
of being exploited by smugglers and traffickers. | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
In the past two years alone at least 300,000 unaccompanied children | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
160,000 of them applied for asylum in Europe. | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
Our correspondent, Caroline Hawley, has been to Greece where she has | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
been talking to children who've fled war and poverty. | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
They had to cross through five different countries to get here - | :21:46. | :21:45. | |
three Afghan orphans now being looked after at | :21:46. | :21:46. | |
Hameed is 15, his brother Ali 13 and Mortaza 11. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Their parents were killed in a Taliban bomb. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
The boys arrived here in March after a month-long | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
journey, partly on foot, in the hands of smugglers. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
Hameed says they now want to join their 18-year-old brother in Sweden. | :22:07. | :22:25. | |
How difficult was the journey, what was the hardest part? | :22:26. | :22:50. | |
With so many migrants now stuck in Greece, | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
there's not space in proper shelters for all the unaccompanied children | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
and there are stories of teenagers being forced to work for no pay | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
or prostituting themselves for pocket money. | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
One in ten of the children who've arrived in Greece travelled alone. | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
These Syrian brothers told me their parents had sent | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
them to Europe to avoid them being conscripted. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
It's very dangerous to stay in Syria because they're taking a lot | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
of children like us, from the age 16, to the war, to fighting. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
In the shelter they live in, 21 teenagers are learning | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
The man in charge of the refuge fled Iran as a child himself | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
TRANSLATION: All these kids have psychological difficulties - | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
they have sleep problems, aggressiveness, self-harm, | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
not wanting to eat or be around other people. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Some of them will be scarred for life by what they've been through. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
And the UN says that record numbers of children are now | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
on the move around the world without their parents - | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
driven from their countries by conflict and desperation. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
Much more must be done, it says, to protect them. | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
A council has been ordered to pay nearly ?200,000 to a former member | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
of staff who was sexually abused by a council official. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Richard Rowe, who's waived his right to anonymity, successfully sued | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
Sheffield City Council after being assaulted | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Dodds, who's 81, was imprisoned in February for a series of assaults. | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
A lawyer for Ian Brady has made clear that the ashes | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
of the Moors Murderer, who died on Monday, will not be | :24:35. | :24:59. | |
scattered on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester, | :25:00. | :24:59. | |
where most of his victims were buried. | :25:00. | :25:00. | |
The assurance came during a Coroner's Court hearing this | :25:01. | :25:00. | |
The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, has announced | :25:01. | :25:01. | |
he will stand down next month when his party, Fine Gael, | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
He led the country through the economic crisis, | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
but his position was weakened after last year's election | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
which resulted in a minority coalition government. | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
The former American soldier, Chelsea Manning - | :25:10. | :25:10. | |
who was behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US history - | :25:11. | :25:11. | |
has been released from military prison. | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
The 29-year-old was expected to remain in jail until 2045, | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
but President Obama commuted her sentence just before he left | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
Our correspondent, Rajini Vaidyanathan, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
Chelsea Manning, seen here in her final days behind bars. | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
Held in an all-male prison, she won her fight to have surgery | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
As she stepped out to a new life, she shared photos of the everyday | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
In a statement she said she was looking forward to so much. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
Chelsea Manning left the military prison here at Fort Leavenworth | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
in the early hours of this morning under the cover of darkness. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
Her supporters say she's a whistle-blower and a hero, | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
but in the past Donald Trump's called her an "ungrateful traitor." | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
And that's a view shared by many people I've spoken to near the base | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
here who believe her actions put many lives at risk. | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
It was while she was living as Bradley Manning that she was | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
convicted of one of the largest leaks of government | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
A low ranking Army private in Iraq, Manning hacked government databases, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
handing hundreds of thousands of classified documents | :26:29. | :26:29. | |
It included this video of a US Apache helicopter strike | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
in Iraq, which killed civilians and journalists. | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
And diplomatic cables which revealed the private | :26:36. | :26:36. | |
WikiLeaks had very significant impacts. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
In certain countries, for a variety of reasons, | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
it did not necessarily have the global impact | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
But Chelsea Manning put real American interests | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Supporters have been campaigning for her release for years. | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
They say she faced discrimination in prison because of her transgender | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
identity, which she revealed shortly after her sentencing. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
She's learned how to live with her situation, as it was, | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
because she thought you was going to be there for a long time, | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
and now she's ready to get out and, more importantly, she's ready | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
to finally be able to live as the woman that she is. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
For now, Chelsea Manning will remain a member of the US | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
military, without pay, as she appeals her conviction. | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
Chelsea Manning's release has been met with a mixed reaction. Her | :27:38. | :27:46. | |
friend say she could take on a public role as a campaigner for | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
transgender rights. In the seven years she spent behind bars, society | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
has changed a quite a bit. Transgender are now able to serve | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
openingly in the US military. Thank you. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
More on the election campaign now and the latest in our series looking | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
at the new shape of politics in the UK. | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
It's now three years since Scotland chose to remain a part | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
Tonight, our special correspondent, Allan Little, reports on how | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
the principle fault line in this election campaign still seems to be | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
There's new energy in the Scottish Conservative Party, | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
for 20 years they'd all but disappeared from the electoral | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
map, now they're ahead of Labour as the second party | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
Strong and stable leadership is not front and centre stage here, | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
it's the Union that dominates their campaign message. | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
People are leaving Labour and coming to us because we are the party | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
of the Union and it's the party you can put your trust in. | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
The second independence referendum was the issue that motivated me | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
to join the Conservative Party and to take an active part in, | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
Yes, as soon as you go door-to-door, start door-knocking, | :28:54. | :29:03. | |
the first thing they want to talk about, it's supposed to be | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
local issues and then it becomes very, very much | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
It is the number one issue in Scotland. | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
Until recently, general elections in Scotland were about the same | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
question as in the rest of the country, namely - | :29:16. | :29:17. | |
And for 50 years, Scotland's answer to that question was Labour. | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
The independence referendum of 2014 realigned Scottish politics. | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
Now the question is not so much - who do you want to govern Britain, | :29:25. | :29:32. | |
but do you want to be in Britain at all? | :29:33. | :29:34. | |
In the 20th Century, Scots were devoted Unionists, | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
bound into the UK by the great shared enterprises of Empire, | :29:38. | :29:47. | |
the Second World War and the post-war welfare state. | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
The nationalised industries - coal, steel, shipbuilding - | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
were bedrocks, not just of Labour loyalty, but of British | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
Miners in Fife were part of the community of shared interest | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
with miners in Yorkshire and South Wales. | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
The deindustrialisation of the 1980s and 90s brought down these powerful | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
For much of the 20th Century, Dundee was a Labour fortress. | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
In 2014, it became yes city, voting for independence | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
by the largest margin in the country. | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
So I've been kind of falling out of love with Labour for a long time. | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
That experience pushed many traditional Labour | :30:29. | :30:29. | |
Jane Phillips was among them, she believes independence is inevitable. | :30:30. | :30:37. | |
The idea is there and it's like trying to unknow something. | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
You can't unknow it, and now that idea is out there, | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
It's like, think of all the other countries in the world who've | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
got their independence, think about the British Empire. | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
Once this notion of independence was out there, it was | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
You can't unknow that idea of taking control of your own future. | :30:55. | :31:07. | |
Does the Conservative revival mean that the | :31:08. | :31:08. | |
In some ways, the Conservative resurgence seems to suggest that | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
actually the constitutional issue matters perhaps more than it | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
ever has because it's the Conservative Party, | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
more than any other party, that are talking about independence | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
and the threat of independence and that helps them, | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
they feel it's helped them to be the party of choice for those | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
who are, first and foremost, in favour of Scotland remaining | :31:31. | :31:32. | |
The Conservatives and the SNP together have changed | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
The fault line is not so much left versus right, | :31:40. | :31:47. | |
independence, for or against, is what divides Scotland now. | :31:48. | :31:49. | |
They are known as 'bots' - fake profiles created on social | :31:50. | :32:07. | |
media posting millions of automated messages. | :32:08. | :32:08. | |
They're increasingly being used to spread propaganda, | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
sometimes by foreign powers and often without us | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
Today, the Information Commissioner said she would launch a formal | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
investigation into the way political campaigns use new digital tools | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
to win votes, as our media editor, | :32:23. | :32:24. | |
This is the moment in crime thriller Homeland when bots or fake | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
personalities online, are put to work. | :32:30. | :32:30. | |
You'll find a new set of talking points in your folders. | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
But the threat that they pose to democracy is fast | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute witnessed a huge explosion | :32:39. | :32:46. | |
in the use of bots around the US election last year. | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
A bot's basically a bit of software that automates | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
The question is - how can you tell the difference | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
Well, what I'm showing you here is an account on Twitter | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
that says that it was started in July 2015, but it | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
It looks like it's tweeting on a really particular schedule. | :33:07. | :33:17. | |
So it says four hours, four hours, four hours, | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
all of the tweets are coming up within minutes of one another | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
And what those shows us is that - there's a couple of things - | :33:23. | :33:30. | |
one, that it's tweeting much more regularly than a person could. | :33:31. | :33:37. | |
And two, that it's tweeting on a very particular schedule. | :33:38. | :33:50. | |
There are fears bots could be used to influence Britain's | :33:51. | :33:52. | |
Many experts believe Russia has already used bots to target | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
the French and US elections, a claim Russia denies. | :33:55. | :33:54. | |
Leading academics say bots are degrading the truth by spreading | :33:55. | :33:54. | |
There are users who can't distinguish between a message that | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
comes from their friends or their family and a message | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
In a close election, where you need 2% or 3% | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
of the popular vote to make a difference, to push you over | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
the edge, having an automated campaign that can get you those | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
voters who are a little uncertain or don't quite know, | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
getting those small numbers of voters to believe | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
a lie about your opponent is sensible strategy. | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
Bots are a 21st Century form of propaganda. | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
The question is whether the law and public awareness have kept pace | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
And while extremists and foreign powers use bots to influence | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
elections and change our behaviour, it's only now that we're | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
Bots will form part of a formal investigation announced today | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
by the Information Commissioner, she'll report later this year | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
on how personal data is being captured and exploited | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
I think there needs to be public awareness. | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
Somebody needs to pull back the curtain and look | :34:52. | :34:53. | |
behind-the-scenes to see how all of this data may be mashed up, | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
may be linked and may be used to push people | :34:59. | :35:00. | |
There has to be transparency around that. | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
But it's not yet clear how to protect British voters from bots. | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
Without strong defences in place, they could undermine the very idea | :35:09. | :35:20. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :35:21. | :35:22. |