29/11/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten...

Britain offers more money to unblock

the Brexit negotiations -

reportedly as much as 50 billion

euros.

The final figure has yet

to be formally confirmed,

but ministers now suggest

they want to give a fair offer.

We've been waiting for this

for a long time, 18 months or so.

Now's the moment to get

the whole ship off the rocks

and move it forwards.

We'll have the latest on the Brexit

process and the other obstacles

still remaining before talks can

move on to talk about trade.

Also tonight...

Donald Trump shares anti-Muslim

material on social media.

Downing Street says

he was wrong to do so -

the White House disagrees.

The threat is real, and that is

what the President is talking about.

That's what the President

is focused on, is dealing

with those real threats.

And those are real no

matter how you look at it.

A convicted Bosnian war

criminal kills himself

by drinking poison in court

after his sentence is upheld.

Lawyers say the man jailed

for murdering Lin and Megan Russell

in Kent in 1996 should

have his conviction reviewed

following an alleged confession

by another convicted killer.

West or south...

And celebrating 80 years of a prime

feature of BBC Radio 4 -

the Shipping Forecast.

Coming up on Sportsday later

in the evening BBC News,

there's an instant impact

at Goodison Park as Sam

Allardyce watches his new team

Everton take on West Ham.

Good evening.

Ministers are expressing confidence

that they can break the deadlock

in the Brexit talks

with an improved financial offer,

which is understood to be around 40

to 50 billion euros.

But the EU still says that no final

agreement has been reached.

The kind of sum being mentioned

would be a considerable increase

on the amount previously offered

by Theresa May's government as

a so-called Brexit divorce payment.

Critics said many who voted

for Brexit would find any

payment unacceptable.

Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg has more details.

There is no substitute

for personal diplomacy.

The Prime Minister, the first major

leader to visit Iraq since so-called

IS were driven out of Mosul.

Thousands of miles away,

dealings between Westminster

and Brussels mean a broad offer

to settle the UK's accounts has been

hypothetically agreed.

We are still in negotiations

with the European Union,

and I am very clear that I want us

to move together

onto the next stage.

Of course, we are working

in the lead up to the

December European Council.

I want to see us able to move

on to the trade talks

and the security talks,

but it means us moving together.

Surely a bill of around 40

to 50 billion euros is too

much for Brexiteers,

who promised we would

get money back?

After months of haggling,

and handshakes - and,

frankly, changes of heart -

the Cabinet is pretty much on board.

The Prime Minister is going to go

forward to the December

European Council with,

I think, a very fair offer.

Now is the moment

to get the whole...

The ship off the rocks

and move it forwards.

The hope is that with more

hypothetical cash on the table,

talks about trade can

start next month.

REPORTER:

Do you think the Brexit

divorce bill is too large?

But nothing is final,

so no minister will publicly give

an official seal of approval.

Nothing is agreed until everything

is agreed about this whole package,

but we accept that there

are obligations that we have built

up, and we will meet them,

as the Prime Minister has said.

Weren't we all told there would be

plenty of money back

if we voted to leave?

It seems the EU has won

the argument, that the bill

to settle our accounts runs

into the tens of billions -

whether paying for long-term

projects we have already signed up

to, or the pensions of Brussels

staff in years to come.

In the bigger picture,

around 40 billion spread over many

years is not big bucks

for the Government.

So the anger you might have expected

in there didn't really explode.

If we are going to negotiate

the comprehensive new trade

agreement with the European Union,

which we need for future

jobs and prosperity,

we do need to be seen as a country

which can be trusted to comply

with the deals we reach.

So will my right honourable friend

guarantee that there will be no

legally binding commitment to spend

money until our partners do agree

to a serious free trade deal?

She should not pay more

than we owe, Mr Speaker,

but she should be confident that,

whatever that is, it's a bargain

against the cost of staying in.

REPORTER:

Do you welcome Britain's

decision to pay more, Mr Barnier?

We are still working.

The EU chief negotiator in no mood

to declare it's done.

The finer details of the bill

will not be agreed for some time,

and a deal to move onto the next

phase of talks could still be

scuppered by disagreement

over the Irish border

or the European courts.

"We are still waiting for more

from London," he said.

"We are not there yet."

After months of European hard talk,

and sticking together,

Britain has moved significantly

towards their version

of what we have to pay -

the Government finding little

success, perhaps, in

the Brexit talks in trying

to stay out on a limb.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

News, Westminster.

Estimates for the size

of the final Brexit divorce bill

have varied widely,

and although a broad framework has

now reportedly been agreed

between the UK and the EU,

many details are

still to be settled.

Chris Morris, from the BBC's

Reality Check team,

has been taking a closer look

at the calculations.

So, negotiators may have reached

a broad agreement on the outlines

of a financial settlement.

But it's still got to be

signed off politically,

and everyone is understandably cagey

about the detail.

But why do estimates for the size

of the bill vary so much?

Well, the figure we've been hearing

about today could be up

to 50 billion euros net.

And these are the major components.

The Prime Minister had already

agreed to cover budget payments

in 2019-20 so that no-one else

would be out of pocket.

That amounted to a pledge

of about 20 billion euros.

But the EU wanted more.

If the UK has now agreed it

will meet all its other

financial commitments,

as defined by the EU,

that will have broken the logjam.

But there could be plenty

of technical haggling ahead

about the exact UK share

of the total.

The biggest part of any bill

will be money that's been

committed to future projects,

but not yet paid out.

The EU has suggested that the UK

should pay roughly a 13% share

of total commitments,

based on the size of its economy.

The UK says it should be lower,

partly because of the fall

in the value of the pound.

Then there's the estimated

liability for the pensions

scheme for EU employees.

The UK argues that the way it has

been calculated is unfair and it

hopes to reduce the bill

by several billion euros.

There's also a debate to be had

about the EU's assets,

especially cash and the timescale

for future UK payments.

Take an EU employee who is about 25

years old, for example.

He or she may not draw their pension

for another 40 years.

So, in theory, the UK could be

making small pension payments

for decades to come.

This would A, spread the load and,

B, make it almost impossible

for anyone to come up with a final

figure now for the cost of divorce.

But if the EU was initially

hoping for a net figure

of about 60 billion euros -

and some Brexiteers were hoping

to pay next to nothing -

the outcome is going to be a lot

closer to 60 billion than to zero.

For its part, the Government always

said there would be bills to pay

and it wants to focus on the future

- a new trading relationship

with the EU and the rest

of the world, affecting the overall

health of the UK's

£2.2 trillion economy.

That means the toughest

negotiations are yet to come.

That was Chris Morris

from the BBC's Reality Check team,

and Laura Kuenssberg

is at Westminster tonight.

A few months ago Boris Johnson

said the EU could go

and whistle for the money -

we seem to have moved

some way from that?

Well, nothing is final until it is

final. But there has been a really

big shift in this thinking at

Westminster. If a year ago you had

said to me that a Government that

was full of Brexiteers at the top

table, that has lots of Eurosceptic

Tories on the backbenches, worth at

the point of agreeing a bill of tens

of billions without much rage,

without there being venom, with a

relatively acquiescent atmosphere

around it, I would have said to you,

frankly, pull the other one. The

political atmosphere around the

Brexit bill has changed

significantly over the recent

months. I think there are a couple

of months for that. First of all, it

has been clear for some time that

the EU was not going to budge that

far. Second, because the figures,

the territory we are talking about,

40 billion or so, that has been

knocking around for some time, it

wasn't a huge surprise to people.

So, it wouldn't have been very

plausible if there had been white

hot shock. Third, I think talking to

Brexiteers in the last couple of

weeks about the money and other

issues, there is a sense now that

what they want, above all else, is

for this to be a success, for this

to work they are keeping their eyes

on the prize, rather than stumbling

or throwing a strop over any

particular issue. The priority for

Brexiteers in the Tory party and in

the Government is to make this

process work, rather than to see,

for some of them, their life's

political work fail in front of

them. I think, over the last couple

of months, it has become clear that

meant that UK had to budge on the

bill. That is how Theresa May

managed to get her ministers and

most of her party into this place.

The public, many of whom believed

that we were going to get some money

back immediately when we voted to

leave, what voters make of it, that

is a different question. But, in

terms of the political agreement in

Westminster, for this to be viable

for Theresa May to get that progress

next week, it seems there are still

issues that could scupper it. But

money isn't going to be one of them.

Many thanks, Laura Kuenssberg with

the latest analysis at Westminster.

Downing Street has criticised

President Trump for using social

media to share anti-Muslim

videos from the far-right

organisation Britain First.

The footage claims to show Muslims

committing acts of violence.

Mr Trump's decision to share

the material led to sharp criticism

here and in the United States.

But the White House insisted

Mr Trump was keen to highlight

genuine threats, regardless

of whether the footage was real,

as our correspondent

Nick Bryant reports.

Britain First!

Fighting back!

Britain First!

Fighting back!

Britain First is a far right

anti-Muslim group with a small

membership that often engages

in publicity stunts to try

to raise its profile.

And early this morning it

received a huge propaganda

gift from Donald Trump,

the "America First" president.

On his Twitter feed,

he retweeted three inflammatory

videos from the group's deputy

leader, Jayda Fransen,

the first claiming incorrectly

to show a Muslim migrant attacking

a man on crutches.

You think you can take over towns

and tell us that it's your country?

This is Jayda Fransen in action.

Earlier this month, she was charged

with using threatening,

abusive or insulting words

or behaviour during speeches

she made in Belfast.

For her, these presidential retweets

are manna from heaven.

"God bless you, Trump," she tweeted.

"God bless America."

From the family

of the murdered MP Jo

Cox, there has been

a despairing response.

She was killed by a right-wing

extremist who shouted

"Britain First."

I have to say, I thought

it was a horrendous thing to do.

Britain First is a well

known hate group.

It drives hatred against Muslims,

and Donald Trump is the president

of our nearest ally,

and the fact that he didn't check

first, or didn't even think

about the content of those tweets

before doing it, I think suggests

his judgment is hugely lacking.

Merry Christmas, said the president,

as he ignored questions

about his tweeting.

But Downing Street has spoken out,

saying it was wrong

for the president to have done this.

It added that his invitation to make

a state visit to Britain

next year still stands.

As for the President's spokeswoman,

she was unapologetic.

The threat is real.

The threat needs to be addressed.

The threat has to be talked about,

and that is what the president

is doing in bringing that up.

Previous US administrations have

liked to think of themselves

as beacons of democratic values,

but that's not been a high priority

for the Trump White House.

Many people around the world will be

saddened and sickened to see

the President of the United States

appearing to validate tweets

from a far-right group.

Ten months into this unorthodox

and provocative presidency,

Donald Trump still has

the capacity to shock.

Nick Bryant, BBC News, New York.

One of the most prominent figures

in the Bosnian civil war

has killed himself in court

after he was convicted

of crimes against humanity.

Moments after judges had

upheld his conviction

at the International Criminal

Tribunal in the Hague,

Slobodan Praljak said

he rejected the verdict

and drank what he said was poison.

Our Middle East editor

Jeremy Bowen, who testified

at the tribunal about his

experiences reporting

the conflict, has the story.

His report contains some

distressing images.

Slobodan Praljak and his

co-defendants were told their

appeals against long jail sentences

has... Had failed, when Praljak kept

standing to insist one last time

that he was innocent. TRANSLATION:

Slobodan Praljak is not a war

criminal, I am rejecting the court

ruling.

He drank from a vial of

liquid.

I have taken poison.

The

court, dealing with its final case

after 24 years, was stunned.

The emergency services arrived.

Praljak died later in hospital.

In 2007 I was a prosecution witness

in the trial of Praljak and his

co-defendants in the Hague. He

cross-examined me, outrage that he

was being prosecuted for, as he saw

it, doing his duty.

I testified, because in 1993,

in the depths of the Bosnian war,

I'd seen what they've done

in Mostar, in the south

of the country.

This was the 400-year-old Ottoman

bridge, then under fire

from Praljak's forces.

It was a symbol of the old Bosnia

that they wanted to dismantle.

The destruction of the old bridge

was just one item on a long

list of war crimes.

In 1993, Bosnian soldiers

who were besieged on the east side

of Mostar, along with thousands

of civilians, were fighting back

against Bosnian Croat forces,

led by Slobodan Praljak.

He was convicted of the murder

of civilians, then like this,

with his wife and his neighbours,

I tried to help them,

but he was already dead.

-- men like this.

Civilians were dying because Praljak

and his co-defendants were trying

to establish an ethnically uniform

state the Bosnian Croats,

which the court decided was a joint

criminal enterprise.

Their war crimes included

the persecution of civilians,

mainly Muslims they wanted

to kill or expel.

At night, I saw civilians under fire

being forced over the front

line in the east Mostar.

These pictures were evidence

in Praljak's trial.

I heard many first-hand

accounts of the murder,

rape and ethnic cleansing

at the hands of Bosnian Croat forces

from a traumatised people

arriving in East Mostar.

After the war, the old bridge

was rebuilt, but Mostar

and all of Bosnia-Herzegovina

is still divided on ethnic lines.

At least the war's victims,

thousands of whom have been

to the Hague, have had some justice,

thanks to the international criminal

tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Its work to convict the worst war

criminals Europe has seen

since the Nazis should not be

overshadowed by the suicide

of Slobodan Praljak.

Jeremy Bowen, BBC News.

The highest-paid university

vice-chancellor in the UK,

who announced yesterday

she was taking retirement,

has been defending her salary.

Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell

of Bath University says she's not

embarrassed by her annual

pay packet of £468,000,

and she insisted the university

hadn't been damaged

by the controversy.

Dame Glynis has been

speaking to our education

editor, Branwen Jeffreys.

Cold winter sun on the campus.

The University of Bath

hoping to move on.

The vice chancellor,

in her first interview,

told me her pay was justified.

You seem unembarrassed

by the controversy.

I think that the controversy

has been something that

I would have wished to avoid,

but I'm not embarrassed by the fact

that those people who actually have

determined my salary did

so in the way that they did.

Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell

will be paid £468,000 a year

until February 2019.

She'll stay in the university flat

in Bath until August 2018.

And a car loan of £31,000

will be written off.

Your pay has been one

element of the controversy,

so has the house, the housekeeper

that goes with it, the car loan

that is being written off, the fact,

indeed, that you will now be paid

until February 2019.

Do you think that's going

to do further damage

to the university's reputation?

I don't actually think

that the university's reputation

is being damaged by this.

I think that we recognise the value

and the significance

of the university.

The cost of being

a student has risen.

Rents in Bath are high.

Few today regretted her departure.

Students had no trust

in her any more, so I think

that it was probably the right

thing to do.

She's done a good job, though.

It was a huge thing

in the House of Lords as well.

And so, it was just...

She needed to go.

It was bad press.

It's good that now we are doing

something to sort it out, I think.

Isn't there something

fundamental, though, in this,

where students feel -

and the wider public -that vice

chancellors' pay just

looks excessive now?

Yes, I think that has been argued.

But do you accept it?

I think that we have a situation

where we are in a globally

competitive market.

This is no longer just about Bath.

There are far wider questions

about who decides on senior

pay in universities,

with calls for greater

transparency and fairness.

You have over 50 vice chancellors

who are paid over £300,000.

You have two thirds of them

who are on remuneration committees

that never actually tell us

how their decisions are made.

So what's happened here

may be a tipping point,

with universities forced

to justify high pay.

Branwen Jeffries, BBC News, Bath.

Theresa May has said she will use

a visit to Saudi Arabia to express

concerns about the humanitarian

crisis in Yemen.

She said she would urge

the Saudi King and the Crown Prince

to lift a blockade which has

prevented the delivery

of aid supplies.

The United Nations estimates that

20 million people in Yemen

are in need of help.

The father of a 13 month-old girl

who is suspected of sexually

assaulting her before

she died has begun giving

evidence at her inquest.

Paul Worthington, who's 49,

refused to answer many

of the questions put

to him in court.

Poppi Worthington died

suddenly five years ago.

The cab service Uber has

revealed that 2.7 million

of its British customers and drivers

were victims of a major

security breach last year.

Personal details including names,

email addresses and phone numbers

were stolen in the hack,

which Uber kept secret

until earlier this month.

Lawyers for Michael Stone,

who was twice convicted

of the murders of Lin Russell

and her daughter Megan in Kent

in 1996, say they have

new evidence of his innocence.

They believe the murderer

of Lyn and Megan Russell

was a convicted serial killer,

Levi Bellfield.

They say a confession made

by Bellfield to another prisoner

is backed up by other evidence

from a witness.

Bellfield told the BBC he denied

the murders and denied

making a confession,

as our correspondent

Wyre Davies reports.

It was a shocking murder,

a vicious attack in July 1996

on a family walking home from school

in rural Kent.

Lin Russell and her six-year-old

daughter Megan were killed

in the frenzied hammer attack.

That was quite heavy.

But nine-year-old Josie survived,

despite suffering terrible injuries.

Michael Stone, a known

criminal and drug addict,

was arrested and found guilty

of the Russell murders, but has

always protested his innocence.

We intend first to

read a statement...

And today, dramatic new evidence

from Stone's lawyers -

what they say is a detailed

confession to the Russell murders

by this man, Levi Bellfield.

The Russell murders,

by Levi Bellfield, fit perfectly

with his modus operandi.

He is a man known to attack

and murdered women.

Already serving two full life

terms for the murders

of Milly Dowler, Amelie Delagrange

and Marsha McDonnell,

Bellfield has now allegedly told

a fellow prisoner in considerable

detail that he also

murdered the Russells.

The prisoner's words

have been re-voiced.

He said, "I've never

told anyone this before.

I killed another child

and got away with it."

He said he approached them

with his hammer in hand,

and the mother screamed and begged

not to hurt her children.

He struck her first, and then Josie.

The dog was killed,

followed by Megan.

What gives this alleged confession

even more credibility is that,

as far as we can tell,

it contains certain details that

would have been known

to only very few people,

like police investigators

or the killer himself.

None of Stone's DNA was ever found

at the murder scene,

but his legal team said today

there was potentially new forensic

evidence against Bellfield.

They also said a new eyewitness had

come forward, identifying

Levi Bellfield driving a car

near the scene.

Speaking from prison,

Stone acknowledged his own violent

past but told me that,

unlike Bellfield, he had no

history of attacking women.

You've got a track record

of violence, you hit

a man with a hammer.

Just desperate to link me

to the crime, but it's not even

similar, because I went to the house

of someone who I found out was,

like, messing about with people,

and I went to his house to warn him

not to do it, and he

grabbed my throat.

And I picked a mallet - it wasn't

a hammer, it was a mallet -

I picked it up to strike him with it

to get him off my neck.

It's nothing like attacking a child,

or a mother and a child.

There's no similarity, really.

Levi Bellfield tonight denied

making a confession,

and Kent Police said they stood

by Stone's conviction.

But Michael Stone's family described

this as a moment of hope.

Mick's been in prison now for 20

years, and that's 20 years too long

for somebody who hasn't

committed a crime.

They say his case must now be sent

to the Court of Appeal.

Wyre Davies, BBC News.

And to see more on this,

BBC Wales Investigates has a special

programme tomorrow night at 8:30pm

on BBC One Wales,

and on the BBC iPlayer.

This draw for the World Cup

in Russia takes place this week.

Three quarters of a million tickets

have already been sold

for next year's tournament,

which will see 32 teams

hosted in 11 cities.

But controversy still surrounds

the competition, as the football

world deals with issues

of integrity and security.

The Russian Deputy Prime

Minister told the BBC

the criticism was unfair.

From Moscow, our sports editor

Dan Roan reports on the challenges

for the tournament.

Russia has a proud footballing

heritage, but it had

to wait to play host.

Now, however, the first World Cup

to be staged here is on the horizon.

The countdown, reaching a crucial

moment this week when the draw

takes place in Moscow.

The man in charge of organising

the £9 billion showpiece,

telling me today it would help

improve his country's image.

It will show a new Russia,

it will show a democratic Russia.

It will show how serious

we are about our place

in the world of football,

how much effort we can invest

into being a hospitable,

welcoming nation.

For a long while, it was

uncertain whether Russia

2018 would even happen,

given Fifa's corruption crisis.

But it's on, and the fact that

Friday's draw is happening

here, at the Kremlin,

underlines its political importance.

But the build-up to this

tournament has had to deal

with a host of challenges,

from concerns over racism,

hooliganism and homophobia

to a major doping scandal.

Russia's on the brink

of sporting isolation.

Next week, the country could be

banned from the Winter Olympics

for a conspiracy that has seen

a host of athletes

stripped of their medals.

Three more were sanctioned today.

World Cup chairman Vitaly Mutko's

denied allegations linking

him to the scandal,

but the questions keep coming.

Deputy Prime Minister, BBC.

Is it a shame that this event

could be overshadowed

by the controversy over anti-doping?

TRANSLATION:

It is a huge

disappointment that we have to pay

so much attention to such problems.

The same situation happened

with the Sochi Olympics.

Now it's happening again,

right before the World Cup.

We are building infrastructure

for the games and that is seen

as a bad thing because they say it's

expensive, full of corruption,

human rights abuse.

But we're doing this

for the development

of football and our country.

The shocking violence that marred

Euro 2017 saw Russian hooligans go

on the rampage in Marseille.

England fan Stewart Gray

was so badly beaten

he ended up in a coma.

His brother, Neil, told us

the suspects have evaded justice.

The message that the Russian

authorities have tried to tell us

is that it will be safe to travel

to next year's World Cup

for any football fan,

from anywhere around the world.

But how can it be when we have four

individuals that are wanted for two

extremely serious crimes just

at large on the streets, possibly

intent on causing further trouble?

Russian authorities claim

a crackdown on hooligans

has proved effective.

This week's match here between arch

rivals Spartak Moscow

and Zenit St Petersburg,

for instance, passed off peacefully.

The policing of the visits of both

Liverpool and Manchester United

in the Champions League in September

was also hailed a success.

Everyone who comes to Russia

will want to be sure that it comes

in a secure environment,

and the environment

is and will be secure.

The authorities are putting 200%

of their efforts to make

sure that this happens

and this will happen.

A dress rehearsal earlier for

Friday's glittering draw ceremony.

The teams competing

for football's greatest prize

are about to take centre stage.

But the focus will remain on

Russia's suitability to play host.

Dan Roan, BBC News, Moscow.

The Shipping Forecast,

a notable feature of BBC Radio 4,

is celebrating its 150th anniversary

tomorrow - and it's believed to be

the longest-running weather forecast

of its kind in the world.

It provides weather reports

and forecasts for the seas around

the coasts of the United Kingdom,

and is produced by the Met Office

on behalf of the Maritime

and Coastguard Agency.

This year marks 80 years

since the BBC began broadcasting

the Shipping Forecast,

and our weather presenter

Sarah Keith-Lucas reports.

There's a chance that leaving

those seasickness pills

at home was a mistake.

The weather impacts

the power of the ocean...

The shipping forecast

for the next 12 hours.

A disturbance near the Hebrides...

And after a major storm back

in the mid 19th century that led

to hundreds of deaths and the loss

of dozens of ships, the Shipping

Forecast was introduced.

Like then, today the forecast

is a vital tool that saves lives

at sea, and the RNLI say that

forward planning is the key

to safety on the water.

We want people to respect the water

as much as possible.

It's particularly important

for small boats and for

vessels who may not have

computerised apps available.

The traditional use

of the Shipping Forecast

through the radio is what they have

as their forecasting model.

That crucial forecast

data is produced daily,

here at the Met Office.

There was just a feeling

that there was too much

risk of loss of life.

Catherine Ross, the chief archivist,

showed me the very first weather

charts from 150 years ago.

What they did, rather cleverly,

was basically put pins

through the paper, and so you can

kind of see just about these

little pinpricks here,

and that meant they were always

plotting the same information

in the same place.

And you can see how they changed

from having no maps to very detailed

maps, and it was known as the storm

warning service to start with,

but it became known

as the iconic Shipping Forecast.

Before radio broadcasts,

storm warnings were communicated

by using drums and cones

hoisted up masts.

It is a complex job to forecast

accurately what the weather will do.

And, of course, technology has

dramatically changed over the years.

They've even got computers to do

some of the figuring out.

Computers were first used in weather

forecasting in the 50s,

had have become much more

sophisticated ever since.

Humber, west or south west, five

or six, occasionally four later.

The Shipping Forecast

is not just for mariners,

but it's also listened

to by hundreds of thousands of us

every day on Radio 4.

South west, five to seven.

Occasional rain, good,

occasionally moderate.

And that's a flavour of the bulletin

which is broadcast four times a day.

However you get your Shipping

Forecast, it is still essential,

and its melodic and rhythmic

qualities mean it remains an iconic

sound of British radio.

Sarah Keith-Lucas, BBC News.

Moderate or fresh, extensive fog.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.

Here's Evan.