:00:07. > :00:11."Outraged and heartbroken", Michelle Obama condemns the kidnapping of the
:00:12. > :00:16.Nigerian schoolgirls. Using her husband's weekly radio address, she
:00:17. > :00:21.calls the abduction an "unconscionable act". In these
:00:22. > :00:26.girls, Barack and I see our own daughters. We see their hopes and
:00:27. > :00:30.their dreams. We can only imagine the anguish their parents are
:00:31. > :00:34.feeling right now. After eight years, a high loss of life, and
:00:35. > :00:40.costly involvement, British troops pull out of their last outpost in
:00:41. > :00:44.Afghanistan's Helmand Province. And Take That, popstars hit with a
:00:45. > :00:46.multi-million-pound bill as a judge finds they'd invested in a tax
:00:47. > :01:08.avoidance scheme. Hello, very good evening to you. The
:01:09. > :01:12.First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has said she and the
:01:13. > :01:16.President are "outraged and heartbroken" over the kidnapping of
:01:17. > :01:21.almost 300 girls from their school in Nigeria. Mrs Obama took the rare
:01:22. > :01:25.step of delivering her husband's weekly radio address to condemn the
:01:26. > :01:29.abduction calling it an "unconscionable act". In Nigeria,
:01:30. > :01:35.local hunters are expected to join the search. From Abuja, Mark Doyle
:01:36. > :01:40.reports. It's several weeks since the more than 200 schoolgirls were
:01:41. > :01:44.taken by the militant Islamist group called Boko Haram. It's the latest
:01:45. > :01:49.incident in a bitter war with the Nigerian authorities. For the
:01:50. > :01:54.families of the teenage girls, the agony continues. Michelle Obama, who
:01:55. > :01:58.today presented her husband's weekly address to the nation, for the first
:01:59. > :02:04.time, used the occasion to highlight the girls' plight. My husband and I
:02:05. > :02:10.are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200
:02:11. > :02:15.Nigerian girls from their school domitory in the middle of the night.
:02:16. > :02:21.What happened in Nigeria was not an isolated incident. It is a story we
:02:22. > :02:26.see every day, as girls around the world risk their lives to pursue
:02:27. > :02:30.their ambitions. Offers to help find the girls have come from several
:02:31. > :02:35.countries. The US has a team on the ground, and a small group of British
:02:36. > :02:43.experts have also flown to Nigeria to give assistance in the hunt. It's
:02:44. > :02:46.a good thing they are worried about and it shown concern and are sending
:02:47. > :02:49.people to help us out. We are happy about it because all we want is
:02:50. > :02:54.results. I think this is the beginning to an end of the whole of
:02:55. > :03:00.Boko Haram issues. Because this whole Chibok kidnapping has brought
:03:01. > :03:03.the whole world to Nigeria. It was a combination of the outrage of
:03:04. > :03:07.ordinary Nigerians, and pressure from the international community,
:03:08. > :03:12.that perhaps goaded the Nigerian authorities to say more about what
:03:13. > :03:17.they are doing to rescue the girls. Many Nigerians are deeply sceptical
:03:18. > :03:24.about the Nigerian military's efforts to do just that and end the
:03:25. > :03:30.insurgency ripping through the north-east of this country.
:03:31. > :03:36.Demonstrations calling for the release of the girls have now spread
:03:37. > :03:40.across the world. Protests like this won't bother the battle hardened
:03:41. > :03:44.Islamists of Boko Haram. They would, however, be worried if the
:03:45. > :03:49.international community began giving effective military support to the
:03:50. > :03:56.Nigerian army. Mark Doyle, BBC News. Abuja. British troops have now
:03:57. > :03:58.pulled out of last outpost in Helmand Province in Afghanistan
:03:59. > :04:02.ahead of a complete withdrawal from the main base at Bastion in just a
:04:03. > :04:07.few months' time. Questions still remain over the high loss of life,
:04:08. > :04:12.costly involvement, and what definition of success the eight-year
:04:13. > :04:15.operation can claim. The Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, visited
:04:16. > :04:18.the outpost in the days before it closed. The BBC's Afghanistan
:04:19. > :04:26.correspondent, David Loyn, has been with him. For the last time, a US
:04:27. > :04:30.helicopter lands on the rough Helmand landscape carrying a British
:04:31. > :04:33.Defence Secretary. Philip Hammond came to see troops who had been
:04:34. > :04:39.sleeping in the open for some days now, with only bottled water to wash
:04:40. > :04:45.in since the buildings and tents have been taken away. This last
:04:46. > :04:49.outpost was a small, highly secret outpost on a high hill. Britain no
:04:50. > :04:54.longer needs to monitor what is going on in Helmand. Given the high
:04:55. > :04:58.loss of life, cost and dubious success of this operation, Helmand
:04:59. > :05:02.is still the source of most of the world's illegal heroin. Would the
:05:03. > :05:06.public support involvement in future conflicts? I sense that there is a
:05:07. > :05:11.touch of war weariness. I think the British people are very clear that
:05:12. > :05:19.we came into Afghanistan to protect our own national interest, first and
:05:20. > :05:23.foremost. Part of protecting that interest is building a credible
:05:24. > :05:25.Afghan state for the future. Having stability in this part of the world
:05:26. > :05:31.is very much in Britain's national interest. Troops have been leaving
:05:32. > :05:36.by helicopter and by road every day. Until this is just a bear hill
:05:37. > :05:40.again. Britain's long costly engagement in Helmand is drawing to
:05:41. > :05:44.an end. The close sure of this last forward base leaves only camp
:05:45. > :05:51.BAssian as Britain's base in Helmand. Within a few months, that
:05:52. > :05:55.will close too. The main business for British forces now in Bastion is
:05:56. > :05:59.the cleaning of kit to bring home. 60% has already gone. Much is
:06:00. > :06:05.locally sold or disposed of. Afghan forces will then secure Helmand on
:06:06. > :06:08.their own. Every day, for still a few months to come, there will be
:06:09. > :06:13.British soldiers going out on operations here. David Loyn, BBC
:06:14. > :06:17.News, in Helmand Province. Gary Barlow and two other members of the
:06:18. > :06:23.band Take That face having to repay a reported ?20 million in tax. A tax
:06:24. > :06:27.judge ruled that a scheme set up to invest in the music industry was in
:06:28. > :06:35.fact "predominantly" designed to avoid tax. Andrew Verity reports.
:06:36. > :06:41.# Tonight this could be, the greatest night of our lives... #
:06:42. > :06:44.After years of musical success and organising the Queen's Diamond
:06:45. > :06:49.Jubilee concert, Gary Barlow has been fated by the Prime Minister,
:06:50. > :06:55.awarded an OBE and promoted as a national treasure. In 2010 he became
:06:56. > :06:59.the latest among hundreds of wealthy individuals to invest in a scheme
:07:00. > :07:05.which purportedly supported up-and-coming musicians. Barlow and
:07:06. > :07:09.fellow band members, Howard Donald and Mark Owen became directors of
:07:10. > :07:14.Larkdale LLP, a partnership arranged with a company called Icebreaker,
:07:15. > :07:18.which had done radio 50 similar schemes for other wealthy
:07:19. > :07:22.individuals. Larkdale recorded losses of ?25 million in the same
:07:23. > :07:26.year. Which can be offset against other income to slash tax bills.
:07:27. > :07:29.Gary Barlow was just the best-known among hundreds of wealthy investors
:07:30. > :07:34.who put their money into these schemes. Over the course of a few
:07:35. > :07:42.years they recorded losses of more than ?300 million. Which makes them
:07:43. > :07:47.look like a terrible investment. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs argued
:07:48. > :07:52.they weren't real, artificial to save their investors on tax. The
:07:53. > :07:56.courts have agreed. We need a sumify caution of the tax system. We
:07:57. > :08:00.needlet loopholes to be eradicated so people can feel everyone is
:08:01. > :08:05.genuinely paying their fair share. When the Times exposed Jimmy Carr's
:08:06. > :08:09.legal tax avoidance two years ago, David Cameron condemned it as
:08:10. > :08:15."morally unacceptable." So far, at least, no such strong words for Gary
:08:16. > :08:18.Barlow. Andrew Verity, BBC News. An extraordinary row has broken out
:08:19. > :08:24.between Nick Clegg and Michael Gove over the funding of school places.
:08:25. > :08:27.Allies of Nick Clegg have accused the Education Secretary of "lunacy"
:08:28. > :08:32.and "zealotry". Michael Gove's allies have branded the Lib Dems as
:08:33. > :08:35."pathetic" and "risible". Let us get more with our political
:08:36. > :08:38.correspondent, Iain Watson. The language is certainly strong. What
:08:39. > :08:42.is going on here? It is strong language, isn't it? Unprecedented
:08:43. > :08:46.attack on policy and personality actually between partners in the
:08:47. > :08:50.same coalition government. The detail on the policy. What the
:08:51. > :08:53.attack is about. Effectively, sources in the Lib Dems are saying
:08:54. > :08:59.that last December their schools minister, David Laws was overruled
:09:00. > :09:02.by Michael Gove. Michael Gove poor ?400 million from the basic needs
:09:03. > :09:06.budget. A budget to help local authorities expand a number of
:09:07. > :09:16.school places. Lib Dem sources said this money was help to support free
:09:17. > :09:26.schools. Michael Gove said, no, the money for school places will be
:09:27. > :09:32.higher in 2 1 16/2017. There is the language being used. I will give you
:09:33. > :09:35.quotes. Lib Dem sources saying, "Michael Gove is obsessed with his
:09:36. > :09:40.free school experiment he is willing to see children struggle to get
:09:41. > :09:45.suitable school places. It's nothing short of lunacy" says this Lib Dem
:09:46. > :09:51.source. Michael Gove's office say, "it's a pathetic attempt from the
:09:52. > :09:56.Lib Dems to divert attention from their botched free school meals
:09:57. > :09:59.policy." This was about the school meals the Lib Dems were keen on and
:10:00. > :10:04.who appointed the school inspectorate. With a year to the
:10:05. > :10:10.general election we are seeing a wider willingness I think by both
:10:11. > :10:14.coalition partners to air their grievances and disagreements in
:10:15. > :10:17.public. We shall see. Thank you. South Yorkshire Police have appealed
:10:18. > :10:20.for a hit-and-run driver to come forward after a teenage girl was
:10:21. > :10:25.killed and another seriously injured in Sheffield. 14-year-old Jasmyn
:10:26. > :10:34.Chan was hit by the car yesterday evening. The injured girl, who is
:10:35. > :10:37.12, is being treated in hospital. Ukraine's acting President has
:10:38. > :10:43.warned people in the east of the country they risk stepping "into the
:10:44. > :10:47.abyss" if they vote for self rule in a referendum to be carried out
:10:48. > :10:51.tomorrow. He said it could lead to the complete destruction of the
:10:52. > :10:54.economy. The warning comes as the leaders of Germany and France say
:10:55. > :10:58.the poll would be illegal and there will be further EU sanctions against
:10:59. > :11:02.Russia if presidential elections fail to take place in Ukraine later
:11:03. > :11:07.this month. From Donetsk, Sarah Rainsford reports. Emerging from
:11:08. > :11:12.deep under ground in Donetsk. This is Ukraine's industrial east, many
:11:13. > :11:15.of these coalminers will vote in a referendum on independence. For
:11:16. > :11:19.them, it's become a protest vote against the government in Kiev after
:11:20. > :11:24.weeks of violence. TRANSLATION: You can't wage war
:11:25. > :11:27.against the people, but they've done it. They have gone past the point of
:11:28. > :11:31.no return. TRANSLATION: I'm going to vote, but
:11:32. > :11:37.not to join or break away from anyone. We should sort our problems
:11:38. > :11:43.out together. This isn't just about peaceful protest. Armed militia have
:11:44. > :11:47.seized control of official buildings across this region am they do have
:11:48. > :11:52.substantial support. They claim to defend the rights of Russian
:11:53. > :12:01.speakers against a nationalist government in Kiev. There are
:12:02. > :12:06.Ukrainian speakers here too, like the headmistress, she says her
:12:07. > :12:09.school has been a polling station for decades, but she sees this vote
:12:10. > :12:13.as illegal. TRANSLATION: This referendum will
:12:14. > :12:17.not go-ahead in my school. They have threatened to killed me and my
:12:18. > :12:23.family. I won't back down. So the rebels have been forced to
:12:24. > :12:26.improvise. This is one of the make-shift polling stations set up
:12:27. > :12:30.here for this vote. This building is usually a private office. In other
:12:31. > :12:33.places we know people will even vote in tents. The conditions for holding
:12:34. > :12:37.this referendum are clearly extraordinary. It's organisers say
:12:38. > :12:43.this is the only way to decide this region's future. The vote for
:12:44. > :12:49.independence is just the first step. What follows is far from clear.
:12:50. > :12:53.Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, Donetsk. It's one of the most talked about
:12:54. > :12:58.and successful TV shows in the world. But the fantasy drama series,
:12:59. > :13:02.Game of Thrones, is also providing an unexpected boost closer to home.
:13:03. > :13:05.Filmed at studios in Belfast and on locations across Northern Ireland,
:13:06. > :13:10.the show is part of a big growth in the arts and entertainment industry
:13:11. > :13:14.there. With more from Belfast our chief economics correspondent, Hugh
:13:15. > :13:19.Pym. Welcome to Hollywood near Belfast. On the face of it, there is
:13:20. > :13:22.not much in common with the capital of the American film industry until
:13:23. > :13:30.that is you walk through a door on this quiet and unassuming suburban
:13:31. > :13:36.street. You have come to the wrong place! Much of the editing for Game
:13:37. > :13:42.of Thrones happens right here at a local production company. Thanks to
:13:43. > :13:44.that and other TV dramas, trainees like Aaron have got their first
:13:45. > :13:49.breaks in the industry. Four years when I just graduated I applied for
:13:50. > :13:53.company positions all over the world, in Canada, England, Europe,
:13:54. > :13:58.everywhere, and it's kind of surreal that I ended up getting a job that's
:13:59. > :14:03.15-minutes away from where I grew up. With many of the film locations
:14:04. > :14:06.in Northern Ireland, a wide range of jobs and opportunities have been
:14:07. > :14:11.created for a local industry which is growing in stature and
:14:12. > :14:15.confidence. The effect that Game of Thrones and all of the other drama
:14:16. > :14:23.series that are coming in has been huge. I mean, you know, we now have
:14:24. > :14:27.a really talent, creative workforce here in Northern Ireland. In that
:14:28. > :14:32.building some of Game of Thrones was filmed. Here in Titanic Quarter. The
:14:33. > :14:37.former yard where the Titanic was built. It's a magnet for creative
:14:38. > :14:41.industries and tourism. All of that has created jobs. The number of jobs
:14:42. > :14:46.in arts, entertainment and recognise correctliation in Northern Ireland
:14:47. > :14:51.was up 12.4% over the six years to December 2013. Faster growth than
:14:52. > :14:55.the UK total, up 4.3%. Experts say these industries have had a wider
:14:56. > :14:59.impact on Northern Ireland's economy. By portraying Northern
:15:00. > :15:03.Ireland in a positive light, that creates tourist benefits that
:15:04. > :15:09.stimulated further employment. That in turn created jobs in hospitality.
:15:10. > :15:15.By creating a positive image everyone benefits, in the same way
:15:16. > :15:19.as for many years by creating a negative image did economic damage.
:15:20. > :15:29.Tours like this for fans wanting to see the show's scenic back drop
:15:30. > :15:33.shows the growth. There is some catching up to do, but partly thanks
:15:34. > :15:39.to the showbusiness effect it's moving in the right direction. Hugh
:15:40. > :15:43.Pym, BBC News, Belfast. You can see more on all of today's stories
:15:44. > :15:47.including of course the Eurovision result on the BBC News Channel
:15:48. > :15:49.tomorrow morning. Andrew Marr's guest will include the Prime
:15:50. > :15:56.Minister, David Cameron, that is on BBC One at 9.00pm. -- 9.00am. That
:15:57. > :15:59.is all from me, have a very good evening. Goodbye.
:16:00. > :16:11.Hello there, today was pretty wild for May. We had some very heavy
:16:12. > :16:18.showers and gale force winds which brought trees down across parts of
:16:19. > :16:21.south Wales. Sunday will be a mixture of sunshine and showers.
:16:22. > :16:26.Lots of showers to start Sunday morning as we head into the
:16:27. > :16:27.afternoon. We should see sunshine developing as well in