:00:20. > :00:24.Counting is under way for a second day in Ireland's general election,
:00:25. > :00:26.one which has already spelt electoral disaster
:00:27. > :00:33.The prospect of a new coalition government is in disarray
:00:34. > :00:35.after the party of the Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny,
:00:36. > :00:39.Let's go live now to our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler,
:00:40. > :00:52.Ireland's obligated voting system means it is still not clear exactly
:00:53. > :00:55.what the final numbers will be, but what is clear that this point is
:00:56. > :01:02.that the big parties can hardly be regarded as winners. They have
:01:03. > :01:07.suffered badly at the hands of a protest vote might. After a night
:01:08. > :01:12.spent counting votes, Ireland has woken up to political change and the
:01:13. > :01:16.New Year of uncertainty. The election posters that still lined
:01:17. > :01:20.the streets now a reminder of shattered dreams and ruin careers.
:01:21. > :01:28.What was the establishment has been shaken, and it is the parties in
:01:29. > :01:31.government that have been damaged. Clear the option not offer Fine Gael
:01:32. > :01:37.-Labour government have gone. We do not know the options yet. Given my
:01:38. > :01:41.responsibility and my duty as Taoiseach and head of government, I
:01:42. > :01:46.need to decide what to do. The Taoiseach and his team are having to
:01:47. > :01:52.examine what went wrong in their campaign. The economy and companies
:01:53. > :01:54.like this Dublin pharmaceutical firm are expanding, creating
:01:55. > :02:02.opportunities for those who had to leave Ireland to find work in the
:02:03. > :02:09.past. My family and friends left Ireland, between 2007-2012. Massive
:02:10. > :02:13.number of people left. Some voters seem to have forgiven Fianna Fail,
:02:14. > :02:18.which was the party in charge when this country needed a financial
:02:19. > :02:23.bailout. The Irish Labour Party has been torn apart, the public blaming
:02:24. > :02:27.the junior partner in the coalition for the resulting years of
:02:28. > :02:31.austerity. I expected we would get hip but the fact that people would
:02:32. > :02:37.go from this government which had to sort out the problems of the last
:02:38. > :02:40.government, it is stunning. All three right of centre parties have
:02:41. > :02:47.found it have winning trust. In many ways this is been a vote against the
:02:48. > :02:52.establishment. On the rise, independent candidates and Antaeus
:02:53. > :02:56.territory and left-wing parties, including Sinn Fein. One thing is
:02:57. > :03:01.certain, this change will continue. If a progressive government is not
:03:02. > :03:06.elected this time, it is only a matter of time. With such a divided
:03:07. > :03:11.vote it will be very difficult to form a government. Government
:03:12. > :03:16.ministers have already lost their seats and the coalition negotiations
:03:17. > :03:20.will be difficult. They smack is used coalitions. It is almost 40
:03:21. > :03:27.years since there was a government here. But with such a split vote,
:03:28. > :03:31.with independence and so many small parties in the mix, how you get
:03:32. > :03:33.people together, no one really knows at this stage.
:03:34. > :03:35.Thank you. In America, Hillary Clinton has
:03:36. > :03:38.secured a big win in the latest round of the race to secure
:03:39. > :03:40.the Democratic nomination She took 73% of the vote
:03:41. > :03:43.in South Carolina, giving her a landslide victory over
:03:44. > :03:45.rival Bernie Sanders. Next is so-called "Super Tuesday"
:03:46. > :03:48.where 11 states will be voting. From South Carolina,
:03:49. > :03:51.Kim Ghattas reports. Cries of victory after a landslide
:03:52. > :03:54.for Hillary Clinton in South After a difficult start in January,
:03:55. > :04:06.the Clinton campaign is taking off. And tomorrow, this
:04:07. > :04:12.campaign goes national. She was always assured a win here,
:04:13. > :04:17.but the numbers are astonishing. More African-Americans turned
:04:18. > :04:19.out for her than did Donella Wilson, the oldest woman
:04:20. > :04:24.in the state, and her daughter came to vote for Hillary Clinton
:04:25. > :04:30.and help make history. Bernie Sanders had tried hard
:04:31. > :04:39.to gain the support of minority But the Palmetto State was just not
:04:40. > :04:47.ready for Mr Sanders, so off he went to Texas to campaign
:04:48. > :04:51.as South Carolina voted. This race is not over,
:04:52. > :04:54.but on Saturday night, the party was here at
:04:55. > :04:57.the Clinton campaign rally. This may have been an easy win
:04:58. > :05:01.for Hillary Clinton, In 2008, she lost big
:05:02. > :05:07.here to her then Democratic This time around, she goes
:05:08. > :05:14.into the big contests in March Kim Ghattas, BBC News,
:05:15. > :05:20.in Columbia, South Carolina. In Syria there have been reports
:05:21. > :05:22.that war planes have attacked several areas in the northern
:05:23. > :05:25.province of Aleppo, a day after a nationwide
:05:26. > :05:27.ceasefire came into effect. Elsewhere, the truce appears
:05:28. > :05:30.largely to be holding. Our correspondent, Mark Lowen,
:05:31. > :05:33.is close to the Turkey-Syria border. Mark, what do we know
:05:34. > :05:46.about these latest strikes? They hit a handful of villages
:05:47. > :05:51.clustered Aleppo, near the Turkish border in northern Syria. We do not
:05:52. > :05:55.know the provenance of these planes. Local activists say they believe
:05:56. > :06:00.they are Russian but Moscow has not confirmed any aerial attacks today.
:06:01. > :06:06.We do not know the real target. If it was the Al-Qaeda link Ms Roth
:06:07. > :06:10.front, this would not constitute a ceasefire breach, because both
:06:11. > :06:16.al-Nusra and Islamic State are beyond the terms of this ceasefire
:06:17. > :06:21.deal. In terms of control, the front lines are shifting. Some Western
:06:22. > :06:23.backed brigades are in those villages. It is possible that the
:06:24. > :06:32.opposition was the real target under the cover off on era. -- al-Nusra.
:06:33. > :06:37.Elsewhere, it has been relatively quiet. In places like Douma,
:06:38. > :06:43.children have been able to come out to play. Numerous ceasefire breaches
:06:44. > :06:47.have been alleged in the last few hours. As one person put it in
:06:48. > :06:50.Damascus, for the first time in a long time, we have woken up to the
:06:51. > :06:53.sound of birdsong rather than bombs. Fifa's new president,
:06:54. > :06:57.Gianni Infantino, told the BBC today his organisation must ensure
:06:58. > :06:59."everything comes out" following the turmoil
:07:00. > :07:00.surrounding his predecessor, Opening a ?100 million
:07:01. > :07:04.World Football Museum in Zurich this morning, Mr Infantino insisted
:07:05. > :07:07.Fifa could be fixed, You have to start, as of now,
:07:08. > :07:20.to live the reforms, already, as of now,
:07:21. > :07:22.and for the future. As for the past, we have to make
:07:23. > :07:26.sure that we cooperate fully with the authorities to make sure
:07:27. > :07:29.that everything comes out There's a warning today that
:07:30. > :07:36.a million buy-to-let properties could be making a loss
:07:37. > :07:39.by 2020 because, in part, From April, people who buy homes
:07:40. > :07:44.to rent them for income will have And from next year,
:07:45. > :07:47.generous tax allowances Our business correspondent,
:07:48. > :07:51.Joe Lynam, reports. Jaye Cook has five buy-to-let
:07:52. > :07:57.properties in Kent, but he won't be buying any more, thanks
:07:58. > :07:59.to a new higher stamp He also won't be able to deduct
:08:00. > :08:04.as much mortgage interest So what will he do
:08:05. > :08:08.with his properties? I think the only reason why
:08:09. > :08:14.we haven't immediately sold is because we are tied
:08:15. > :08:17.in with fixed-rate mortgages with penalties for early repayment
:08:18. > :08:20.so we don't have the ability to sell immediately, but certainly I think,
:08:21. > :08:23.going forward, as those fixed rates finish, subject to the prices
:08:24. > :08:25.available on the property market, Do you think there will be
:08:26. > :08:30.lots of other buy-to-let investors Absolutely, I think it has become
:08:31. > :08:33.a much less attractive investment and people can't afford
:08:34. > :08:41.a loss every month. There are 2 million buy-to-let
:08:42. > :08:43.landlords like Jaye. Between them, they own 5
:08:44. > :08:46.million homes in Britain. Now a study says that more
:08:47. > :08:49.than 1 million of them could be loss-making if rates rise
:08:50. > :08:51.in the coming years. But for renters keen to get
:08:52. > :08:53.on the housing ladder, the changes to
:08:54. > :08:55.buy-to-let are welcome. We see the tax incentives
:08:56. > :08:58.for buy-to-let landlords have pushed a lot of amateur
:08:59. > :09:02.landlords into the market. Removing these incentives
:09:03. > :09:07.will professionalise landlords and make way for
:09:08. > :09:11.first-time home-buyers, which may have been pushed out
:09:12. > :09:14.of the market because of these tax The Treasury says
:09:15. > :09:20.that by restricting the mortgage tax relief,
:09:21. > :09:23.it has addressed the unfair advantage enjoyed by
:09:24. > :09:32.buy-to-let landlords. Buy-to-let properties accounted
:09:33. > :09:40.for a substantial part of Britain's They are going to pay higher
:09:41. > :09:45.stamp duty from April That is to the advantage
:09:46. > :09:47.of a Chancellor who wants to balance the books,
:09:48. > :09:50.but it could have a major impact Bye for now.
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