:00:00. > :00:00.Pope Francis appeals for compassion and humanity over the migrant crisis
:00:00. > :00:19.Thank you God, thank you. He tells people facing deportation not to
:00:20. > :00:22.lose hope. And in a surprise move,
:00:23. > :00:25.the Pope brings three Syrian families back to Rome
:00:26. > :00:28.in what he calls a "small A blunt message from Boris Johnson
:00:29. > :00:34.to President Obama: He'll be guilty of hypocrisy,
:00:35. > :00:37.if he backs the campaign Rescue workers in Japan face a race
:00:38. > :00:43.against time to free dozens of people buried
:00:44. > :00:49.by two powerful earthquakes. And more than two decades
:00:50. > :00:51.after Diana, Princess of Wales, sat alone at the Taj Mahal,
:00:52. > :00:54.her son and his wife evoke her memory, as they make
:00:55. > :01:17.the same journey. Pope Francis has told thousands
:01:18. > :01:22.of refugees stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos that they are not
:01:23. > :01:25.alone in their plight. Speaking on a visit there,
:01:26. > :01:28.the Pope called on the world to respond to the migrant crisis,
:01:29. > :01:31.in a way, he said, that is "worthy And, in a personal gesture,
:01:32. > :01:38.Pope Francis took three Syrian families back with him to Rome
:01:39. > :01:42.to start new lives there. As they were welcomed to Italy
:01:43. > :01:44.tonight, many of the migrants in Lesbos are facing deportation
:01:45. > :01:48.under an EU deal to From Lesbos, Caroline Hawley
:01:49. > :01:55.reports. He came to what's been called
:01:56. > :01:58.the frontline of the migrant crisis to meet the people who've
:01:59. > :02:01.risked their lives to get here, to plead for a more humane
:02:02. > :02:06.international response to them. The Pope is used to provoking
:02:07. > :02:16.emotions. They're usually drawn from religious
:02:17. > :02:18.fervour, not desperation. All the migrants in this camp
:02:19. > :02:24.are now effectively detained, awaiting either
:02:25. > :02:28.asylum or deportation. A deal between the EU and Turkey
:02:29. > :02:32.to try to stem the flow of migrants has provoked questions
:02:33. > :02:36.about its morality and legality. The Pope's now added his weight
:02:37. > :02:44.to a growing chorus of concern. TRANSLATION: We hope
:02:45. > :02:46.that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and,
:02:47. > :02:49.indeed, desperate need and respond in a way worthy
:02:50. > :03:00.of our common humanity. Outside another camp,
:03:01. > :03:03.Syrians gathered for a glimpse of the Pope, hoping somehow he'd
:03:04. > :03:09.be their saviour. This man, a Kurd, said
:03:10. > :03:13.he would rather die here All the migrants we've met
:03:14. > :03:18.here have huge hopes and expectations of the outcome
:03:19. > :03:21.of the Pope's short visit. He'll hope at least to have managed
:03:22. > :03:25.to stir Europe's conscience. But what difference will the Pope's
:03:26. > :03:31.visit actually make? We want them to rethink
:03:32. > :03:34.the EU-Turkey deal and how At the moment, it's being rushed
:03:35. > :03:39.through and people aren't having a chance to have their claims
:03:40. > :03:43.for asylum fairly heard. Today, luck was on the side
:03:44. > :03:46.of three Syrian families. The Pope's plane returned
:03:47. > :03:49.with 12 extra passengers - six adults, six children,
:03:50. > :03:53.Muslims who'll be The chosen few plucked from migrant
:03:54. > :03:59.misery got a tour of the historic centre of Rome, looking
:04:00. > :04:03.slightly bewildered. The Pope's dramatic and pointed
:04:04. > :04:11.gesture has transformed their lives. But back on Lesbos, more than 3,000
:04:12. > :04:15.people remain incarcerated in the camp Pope Francis visited,
:04:16. > :04:20.stuck here in legal limbo. Boris Johnson has delivered a blunt
:04:21. > :04:27.message to President Obama, saying it would be nakedly
:04:28. > :04:31.hypocritical if he backed the campaign for Britain to remain
:04:32. > :04:35.in the European Union. The president, who will visit the UK
:04:36. > :04:38.next week, is widely expected to offer support
:04:39. > :04:42.to David Cameron's pro-EU campaign. Here's our political
:04:43. > :04:46.correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. Up and down the country,
:04:47. > :04:49.it's Boris Johnson who's At referendum rallies
:04:50. > :04:57.like here in Newcastle today, he's urging voters to back
:04:58. > :04:59.the Leave campaign. But on a visit to the UK next week,
:05:00. > :05:05.the US president is expected to say A likely intervention that
:05:06. > :05:13.Mr Johnson condemned I just find it absolutely bizarre
:05:14. > :05:19.that we're being lectured by the Americans about giving
:05:20. > :05:22.up our sovereignty You see, they wouldn't dream
:05:23. > :05:28.of sharing sovereignty. So is he in danger of making America
:05:29. > :05:34.look like a hypocrite? Not in danger of it,
:05:35. > :05:36.I'm afraid he is. There is an intrinsic
:05:37. > :05:40.hypocrisy, if that is - I don't know what he's going to say
:05:41. > :05:44.- but if that is the American argument then of course it's
:05:45. > :05:48.nakedly hypocritical. Coming just a few days before
:05:49. > :05:51.President Obama arrives on another state visit to Britain,
:05:52. > :05:55.Boris Johnson's plain speaking It's not the usual red carpet
:05:56. > :06:02.rhetoric rolled out before a presidential visit,
:06:03. > :06:06.especially from someone who aspires to live here one day,
:06:07. > :06:09.but Boris Johnson likes to grab the spotlight and knows his comments
:06:10. > :06:16.will get people's attention. Senior Conservatives
:06:17. > :06:19.from the Remain campaign, including this former Foreign
:06:20. > :06:23.Secretary, are not impressed. I don't think he's thought this one
:06:24. > :06:26.through very hard. It's a pretty unwise and just
:06:27. > :06:28.naive comment to make. The United States has pledged
:06:29. > :06:32.to come to the defence of Europe if ever we're ever attacked,
:06:33. > :06:35.to expose their own The idea that the president
:06:36. > :06:41.of the United States cannot express concern at the wider implications
:06:42. > :06:44.for the West as a whole - Any intervention has
:06:45. > :06:49.to be carefully managed. President Obama won't want to be
:06:50. > :06:52.seen to be telling British voters what to do, but Mr Cameron will hope
:06:53. > :06:55.this special relationship can give his campaign
:06:56. > :07:00.the boost it needs. Eleanor Garnier, BBC
:07:01. > :07:12.News, Westminster. Police have been given more time
:07:13. > :07:15.to question three men and a woman from Birmingham on suspicion
:07:16. > :07:17.of terrorism offences, linked to the investigation
:07:18. > :07:19.into attacks in Paris and Brussels. Three of them were arrested
:07:20. > :07:22.in Birmingham on Thursday night, while the fourth was detained
:07:23. > :07:24.at Gatwick Airport yesterday. Another man, who had been arrested,
:07:25. > :07:28.has been released on bail. MPs have said many people
:07:29. > :07:31.are getting far slower broadband speeds than advertised
:07:32. > :07:33.by their suppliers. They say in some cases only one
:07:34. > :07:36.in ten customers receives The MPs have called for advertising
:07:37. > :07:40.rules to be changed and for customers with slow
:07:41. > :07:50.connections to be given refunds. The Japanese prime minister,
:07:51. > :07:53.Shinzo Abe, has said that rescue workers are in a race against time
:07:54. > :07:56.to help the victims of two earthquakes, which struck
:07:57. > :07:58.the south of the country. More than 40 people are known
:07:59. > :08:01.to have died, and dozens more Our correspondent,
:08:02. > :08:04.Rupert Wingfield Hayes, This is the Aso Shrine,
:08:05. > :08:10.considered one of Japan's most Now, much of it lies in ruins,
:08:11. > :08:16.brought down by Friday Nine students were pulled
:08:17. > :08:23.alive from this collapsed apartment building today,
:08:24. > :08:28.but two others died here. There have been some
:08:29. > :08:31.amazing rescues. This old man was brought out safely
:08:32. > :08:34.after being trapped in the ruins This is the scene we found
:08:35. > :08:42.as we drove into Mashiki, Every single house is either
:08:43. > :08:48.very badly damaged, or like this one behind me here,
:08:49. > :08:51.completely destroyed, and these over We found the town's residents
:08:52. > :09:01.huddling at this evacuation centre. These people are spending a third
:09:02. > :09:04.night sleeping outside, Everyone is badly shaken,
:09:05. > :09:13.still far too scared to go home. "This is the first time I've
:09:14. > :09:16.experienced anything like this "I knew I had to get
:09:17. > :09:22.the kids and run. I noticed the plates
:09:23. > :09:27.were smashed on the floor, but I have no recollection of how
:09:28. > :09:30.they got there." These CCTV pictures give an idea
:09:31. > :09:33.of the violence of the shaking Landslides have severed
:09:34. > :09:40.roads and bridges. Whoever was in this car had
:09:41. > :09:45.an extremely lucky escape. And with heavy rains
:09:46. > :09:47.now pounding this area, the fear is there could be
:09:48. > :09:50.fresh landslides to come. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,
:09:51. > :09:56.BBC News, in Kumamoto. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:09:57. > :09:59.have visited the Taj Mahal, the final engagement of their tour
:10:00. > :10:03.of India and Bhutan. They sat briefly on the bench
:10:04. > :10:07.where Diana, Princess of Wales, was famously photographed
:10:08. > :10:10.on her own, in the year Officials said the couple
:10:11. > :10:15.were following a tradition set by many tourists before them
:10:16. > :10:18.and creating memories of their own. Our royal correspondent,
:10:19. > :10:21.Nicholas Witchell, It was one of those moments
:10:22. > :10:28.which mattered much more to picture desks and photographers than it did
:10:29. > :10:31.to the principals. William was only nine when his
:10:32. > :10:33.mother visited the Taj Mahal. His officials say that visit,
:10:34. > :10:36.24 years ago, has no But the images of his late mother,
:10:37. > :10:42.sitting alone at this monument to love, Prince Charles having
:10:43. > :10:46.decided not to accompany her, was one of the clearest signs,
:10:47. > :10:49.at the time, that their marriage Hardly the happiest
:10:50. > :10:55.of associations for William, then. But at the end of their first visit
:10:56. > :10:58.to India, it was an opportunity for him and Catherine to create
:10:59. > :11:00.memories of their own, albeit under the intense
:11:01. > :11:05.scrutiny of photographers. They were waiting for just one thing
:11:06. > :11:08.- images of Diana's elder son and his wife posing together
:11:09. > :11:12.at the place where Diana had been It was a moment not as significant
:11:13. > :11:18.to William as the watching world may try to make it,
:11:19. > :11:21.yet a fitting place to end Sir, what has the visit
:11:22. > :11:27.here meant to you? Beautiful place. Stunning design.
:11:28. > :11:31.Amazing. Yet William understands
:11:32. > :11:38.the resonance today's 24 years ago, the images from this
:11:39. > :11:44.place were rather forlorn ones. Those images have now been
:11:45. > :11:46.supplanted, at least in part, And on that note, this royal visit
:11:47. > :11:52.to India and Bhutan concluded. According to officials,
:11:53. > :11:54.the couple achieved what they wanted Nicholas Witchell, BBC News,
:11:55. > :12:02.at the Taj Mahal. Now with all the day's sport,
:12:03. > :12:08.here's Karthi Gnanasegaram. We'll start with football
:12:09. > :12:12.on what has been an eventful day If you're waiting for Match
:12:13. > :12:17.of the Day which follows soon on BBC One, it's time to pop out
:12:18. > :12:20.of the room for a moment. It didn't come as a surprise
:12:21. > :12:23.to the club or its fans that Aston Villa are the first side to be
:12:24. > :12:27.relegated from the Premier League. Villa drop out of the top flight
:12:28. > :12:41.for the first time since 1987. A famous old club officially
:12:42. > :12:45.relegated with weeks to spare. The day the inevitable became the
:12:46. > :12:48.inavoidable. Defeat to Manchester United meant Aston Villa, seven
:12:49. > :12:54.times champions of England, slipped slowly, sadly out of the elite. The
:12:55. > :12:56.theatre of the dreams, the culmination a nightmare for Aston
:12:57. > :13:00.Villa, one of Britain's biggest clubs will play in the second tier
:13:01. > :13:05.next season. It's been coming for some time. The football's poor. The
:13:06. > :13:09.players aren't trying. I mean, we even gave up as fans, a few months
:13:10. > :13:14.ago. Rubbish, we don't deserve to be in the Premier League after this
:13:15. > :13:16.season. We don't mind paying the money as long as the players are
:13:17. > :13:21.going to give us something back. They don't. Fly back 34 years, and
:13:22. > :13:24.Villa were returning to Birmingham with the European Cup. The previous
:13:25. > :13:29.year they were league champions. They fell from grace as the 80s went
:13:30. > :13:34.on but returned revitalised as one of the top teams of the early
:13:35. > :13:41.Premier League era. Ten years ago the American businessman Rady Lerner
:13:42. > :13:44.bought the club. But they've fallen into regular wrestles with
:13:45. > :13:48.relegation. Last season the struggle was sweetened by an appearance in
:13:49. > :13:53.the FA Cup Final. By the 4-0 defeat to Arsenal told of what was to come.
:13:54. > :13:57.They've been bottom since November and have won just three times this
:13:58. > :14:00.season. I would like to take some of that responsibility and say we have
:14:01. > :14:04.four games left. I know it's not going to help us stay in the league.
:14:05. > :14:09.But we owe them a lot. We will strive forward. For a section of the
:14:10. > :14:14.fans, the next struggle will be against the club's owner, who they
:14:15. > :14:17.say has lost interest. Meanwhile, an old giant fades into the shadows.
:14:18. > :14:22.In the day's other Premier League games:
:14:23. > :14:27.and Newcastle narrowed the gap to Norwich in the battle
:14:28. > :14:31.A hatrick from Sergio Aguero helped Manchester City beat
:14:32. > :14:34.Watford were the day's other winners.
:14:35. > :14:36.Hibernian have booked their place in the Scottish Cup Final,
:14:37. > :14:38.after beating Dundee United 4-2 on penalties.
:14:39. > :14:41.The Championship side's goalkeeper, Conrad Logan, was the hero for Hibs,
:14:42. > :14:45.They will face either Celtic or Rangers in next month's final.
:14:46. > :14:47.Formula One and Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow's
:14:48. > :14:50.Chinese Grand Prix from the back of the grid.
:14:51. > :14:52.Hamilton failed to set a qualifying time in Shanghai, after his Mercedes
:14:53. > :15:00.His team-mate Nico Rosberg will be on pole.
:15:01. > :15:02.Commonwealth and European gold medallist, Jazz Carlin,
:15:03. > :15:04.was one of three swimmers at the British Championships
:15:05. > :15:07.in Glasgow to qualify for this year's Olympic Games.
:15:08. > :15:10.Carlin won the 400 metres freestyle in an Olympic qualification time.
:15:11. > :15:12.Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Ben Proud also claimed places
:15:13. > :15:20.Three British boxers, including the aptly named
:15:21. > :15:23.Muhammed Ali, won gold medals at the European Olympic qualifying
:15:24. > :15:28.They had already qualified for the Rio Olympics by reaching
:15:29. > :15:32.But middleweight, Anthony Fowler, did secure his place
:15:33. > :15:35.at the Games this afternoon, when he won his third place fight
:15:36. > :15:37.against Germany's Xhek Paskali, with a unanimous points decision.
:15:38. > :15:40.Reigning world snooker champion, Stuart Bingham, is two frames away
:15:41. > :15:43.being knocked out of the tournament in the first round.
:15:44. > :15:46.-- one frame away from winning his first round match at the tournament
:15:47. > :15:48.in Sheffield. Bingham was 5-1 down to Ali Carter,
:15:49. > :15:51.a two-time runner up at the Crucible, but Bingham has
:15:52. > :15:59.come back in to the match World number two, Andy Murray,
:16:00. > :16:02.has been knocked out of the Monte Carlo Masters
:16:03. > :16:04.in the semi-finals by Rafael Nadal. Murray took the first set 6-2,
:16:05. > :16:07.but Nadal claimed the next two sets Nadal will face Gael Monfils of
:16:08. > :16:13.France in tomorrow's Masters final. Also today, Andy's older brother,
:16:14. > :16:16.Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares reached the Doubles Final
:16:17. > :16:18.of the Monte Carlo Masters, which means Jamie Murray will remain
:16:19. > :16:21.ranked as the world's number You can see more on all of today's
:16:22. > :16:32.stories on the BBC News Channel. That's all from me and
:16:33. > :16:49.the team here, goodnight. Hi there. Spring will try to fight
:16:50. > :16:52.back over the next few days. But it doesn't feel like it at the moment.
:16:53. > :16:57.Quite a rude awakening for some of us this morning, with a blanket of
:16:58. > :17:01.snow, for example, here in the Cotswolds. Some other places saw the
:17:02. > :17:06.white stuff earlier on. Then most of us enjoyed plenty of sunshine. But
:17:07. > :17:09.the cloud built up. By the afternoon, heavy down pours and
:17:10. > :17:10.interesting clouds