:00:09. > :00:14.strongly attacked President Obama for suggesting that a separate trade
:00:15. > :00:22.In an exclusive interview with the BBC, he said negotiations
:00:23. > :00:24.could last a decade, and friends had to be
:00:25. > :00:28.If the countries that are closest to you, those who you have a special
:00:29. > :00:31.relationship with, are suggesting to you that you might be better off
:00:32. > :00:47.staying in this relationship with Europe, it's worth paying attention.
:00:48. > :00:49.The American President is coming out with the same rubbish
:00:50. > :00:55.as David Cameron - basically the line is that Britain
:00:56. > :01:05.could file for administration as early as tomorrow,
:01:06. > :01:13.Leicester City move a step closer to the Premier League title,
:01:14. > :01:18.And Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya wins the London Marathon in a course
:01:19. > :01:41.record time, while compatriot Jemima Sumgong picked herself up
:01:42. > :01:47.Campaigners who want the UK to leave the European Union have reacted
:01:48. > :01:49.with anger to comments made by President Obama that it
:01:50. > :01:52.could take several years for Britain to secure a trade deal with America,
:01:53. > :01:59.In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Mr Obama
:02:00. > :02:02.said it could be "five, maybe ten years".
:02:03. > :02:04.But the leader of Ukip, Nigel Farage, dismissed
:02:05. > :02:06.the President's comments as "utter tosh".
:02:07. > :02:09.Before flying onto to Germany after his state visit to the UK,
:02:10. > :02:17.Mr President, thank you very much very much for talking to us.
:02:18. > :02:22.I think it is better to say that your visit,
:02:23. > :02:24.even more than usual, has created a stir.
:02:25. > :02:30.People saying, OK, we have a special relationship, and yet that special
:02:31. > :02:33.relationship could involve going to the back of a queue - how
:02:34. > :02:36.Actually, the special relationship is not contingent on any
:02:37. > :02:41.There are emotional and cultural and commercial and strategic bonds
:02:42. > :02:43.between our two countries which aren't matched by any two
:02:44. > :02:54.As a practical matter, what we're doing with respect
:02:55. > :02:59.to trade is negotiating with big blocs of countries.
:03:00. > :03:01.Because negotiating trade deals is a heavy lift,
:03:02. > :03:02.they are challenging, they are difficult.
:03:03. > :03:07.It is the phrase, isn't it, back of the queue, which has
:03:08. > :03:10.I suppose offended some people and alarmed others, or scared them -
:03:11. > :03:17.No, as I said, it wasn't simply a response to think the argument
:03:18. > :03:20.that I have heard from others who are proposing to leave the EU,
:03:21. > :03:22.that somehow America would be able to do things
:03:23. > :03:25.more quickly with the UK than if they were in
:03:26. > :03:32.And I was simply indicating that that would not be the case in this
:03:33. > :03:38.The UK would not be able to negotiate something
:03:39. > :03:41.with the United States faster than the EU.
:03:42. > :03:44.We wouldn't abandon our efforts to negotiate a trade deal
:03:45. > :03:51.with our largest trading partner, the European market,
:03:52. > :03:53.but rather it could be five years from now,
:03:54. > :03:57.ten years from now, before we were able to actually
:03:58. > :04:02.So maybe not right at the back of the queue,
:04:03. > :04:05.maybe towards the back of the queue, is that right?
:04:06. > :04:10.I think the broader point is that, if you're interested in trade,
:04:11. > :04:13.we are on the cusp of getting a trade deal done with
:04:14. > :04:24.If I am a business person or a worker in Britain and I'm
:04:25. > :04:27.looking at the fact that I already have access,
:04:28. > :04:30.seamlessly, with a massive market, one of the wealthiest
:04:31. > :04:35.markets in the world, that accounts for 44% of my exports,
:04:36. > :04:41.the idea that I'm going to be in a better position to export
:04:42. > :04:46.and trade by being outside of that market, and not being in the room
:04:47. > :04:51.setting the rules and standards by which trade takes place,
:04:52. > :04:57.You've been very clear, the special relationship,
:04:58. > :05:00.you have just said it, it is much more than trade.
:05:01. > :05:06.We have been focusing on lots of things, including
:05:07. > :05:08.intelligence-sharing, given the very real threat
:05:09. > :05:12.from terrorist groups around the world - is it possible
:05:13. > :05:15.to say today that if there were an exit from the EU,
:05:16. > :05:17.those elements of the special relationship wouldn't be affected,
:05:18. > :05:27.They wouldn't be affected in the sense that our intelligence
:05:28. > :05:29.teams work extremely closely, our militaries work
:05:30. > :05:45.Our co-operation is not going to be changed,
:05:46. > :05:47.our ability to do things together will not be changed.
:05:48. > :05:49.What we do believe is that the United Kingdom will have
:05:50. > :05:51.less influence in Europe, and as a consequence,
:05:52. > :05:55.And since we rely heavily on the UK as a partner globally,
:05:56. > :05:58.on a whole range of issues, we like you having more influence.
:05:59. > :06:01.There will be some people watching, they put a much higher
:06:02. > :06:04.price on the bond with the US than they do on the bond with
:06:05. > :06:05.the EU. Sure.
:06:06. > :06:08.And they will say, the president is very clear -
:06:09. > :06:10.the special relationship is not going to be damaged by any decision
:06:11. > :06:16.And if that's the case, we should not be concerned about coming out.
:06:17. > :06:18.That's how they will probably relay the argument - what
:06:19. > :06:22.I guess, if the countries that are closest to you, that care
:06:23. > :06:26.about you the most, the countries with whom you cooperate most
:06:27. > :06:30.frequently, those who you have a special relationship with,
:06:31. > :06:36.are suggesting to you that you might be better off staying in this
:06:37. > :06:40.relationship with Europe, that's worth paying attention.
:06:41. > :06:43.My hope is that this is something that would have some influence
:06:44. > :06:53.I don't anticipate that anything I have said will change the position
:06:54. > :06:55.of those who are leading the campaigns in one
:06:56. > :06:58.direction or another, but for ordinary voters,
:06:59. > :07:01.I thought it would be relevant to hear what the President
:07:02. > :07:03.of the United States, who loves the British people
:07:04. > :07:07.and cares deeply about this relationship, has to say about it.
:07:08. > :07:11.Mr President, great honour to talk to you.
:07:12. > :07:20.Well, Leave campaigners have branded Mr Obama "a lame duck President"
:07:21. > :07:24.with just nine months left in the White House, and someone
:07:25. > :07:27.who shouldn't have intervened in a British domestic debate.
:07:28. > :07:35.Our political correspondent Ben Wright is at Westminster.
:07:36. > :07:43.How is the Leave campaign responding to the suggestion that a new trade
:07:44. > :07:47.deal with America could take up to a decade? I think they will be pretty
:07:48. > :07:50.glad that Air Force One has gone, because President Obama has given
:07:51. > :07:53.them a tough time in the last few days, particularly on the question
:07:54. > :07:58.of trade. Watching this interview, Roman and Leave supporters, like the
:07:59. > :08:02.former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, say they noticed a change of tone
:08:03. > :08:07.with regard to his comments about going to the back of the queue. Vote
:08:08. > :08:10.Leave dismissed the idea it would take ten years to wrap up any
:08:11. > :08:15.agreement, pointing out that the US have done them in two years with
:08:16. > :08:16.other countries. And Ukip video Nigel Farage said that President
:08:17. > :08:22.Obama was scaremongering. I think the American president
:08:23. > :08:25.is coming out with the same rubbish that David Cameron is coming up
:08:26. > :08:28.with - basically, the line is, Britain isn't capable
:08:29. > :08:31.of negotiating its own deals Well, little countries
:08:32. > :08:33.like Switzerland have more And if Australia, with
:08:34. > :08:38.a tiny population in relative terms, can from start
:08:39. > :08:41.to finish conclude a deal with America in ten months,
:08:42. > :08:56.we can do even better Nigel Farage also said immigration
:08:57. > :08:59.and border controls would be very important. Theresa May conceded the
:09:00. > :09:03.obvious this morning, which is that the free movement of people made it
:09:04. > :09:06.harder for the UK to curb immigration. That is what this
:09:07. > :09:10.referendum is all about - all of these issues. We now know
:09:11. > :09:12.emphatically what the president of the United States thinks. The
:09:13. > :09:14.question is how that shapes the choice which voters make in two
:09:15. > :09:24.months' time. BBC News understands the retailer
:09:25. > :09:27.BHS could file for administration Sports Direct has been in talks
:09:28. > :09:33.to buy some of its 164 stores, but a major sticking point has
:09:34. > :09:36.been the huge deficit Here's our business
:09:37. > :09:47.correspondent Joe Lynam. BHS has not exactly been lighting up
:09:48. > :09:51.Britain's high street of late. Sharper and more nimble retailers
:09:52. > :09:55.have stolen a march. Despite getting a number of major rent reductions
:09:56. > :09:59.from its landlords last month, BHS has struggled to get other loans in
:10:00. > :10:06.place with which to rejuvenate the brand. So, 13 months after it was
:10:07. > :10:10.sold by Sir Philip Green for ?1, BHS looks like it could file for
:10:11. > :10:15.administration as early as tomorrow. Problems at BHS didn't come as a
:10:16. > :10:20.surprise to these shoppers in Leeds. The problem with BHS, who does it
:10:21. > :10:26.appeal to? Maybe not to somebody of my age, or even younger ones. It is
:10:27. > :10:30.stuck in no mans land. We like the trousers in there, that is all we
:10:31. > :10:35.can say. It is a shame, because you always get really good customer
:10:36. > :10:40.service in there. BHS opened its first shop in Brixton in 1928. In
:10:41. > :10:48.the 1980s, it emerged with Mothercare and habitat. In 2000, Sir
:10:49. > :10:53.Philip Green bought it for ?200 million. But he was not able to turn
:10:54. > :10:57.the company around and he sold it for ?1 to an unknown consortium in
:10:58. > :11:02.2015. One year later, the new owners have not been able to secure the
:11:03. > :11:06.money to reinvent BHS and may be forced to call in the
:11:07. > :11:09.administrators. Then there is the issue of the pension deficit, the
:11:10. > :11:13.difference between the money needed by BHS staff in retirement and what
:11:14. > :11:20.has already been set aside. It currently stands at half ?1 billion.
:11:21. > :11:24.They would probably be paid by the Government's pension protection
:11:25. > :11:27.fund. That it raises the issue of how the company was run and whether
:11:28. > :11:31.they will be able to find a new owner. The retail business in
:11:32. > :11:36.Britain is tough. It does not respect well-known brands. BHS may
:11:37. > :11:38.find new owners, but it might just as easily disappear from our high
:11:39. > :11:41.streets. Murder investigations have begun
:11:42. > :11:44.into the deaths of two men found The bodies of Daniel Hatfield,
:11:45. > :11:48.who was 52, and Matthew Higgins, who was 49,
:11:49. > :11:50.were discovered on Friday. Two women and a man
:11:51. > :11:57.have been arrested. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,
:11:58. > :12:01.has rejected a plan to try to avert the junior doctors strike due this
:12:02. > :12:03.Tuesday and Wednesday. The cross-party proposal,
:12:04. > :12:05.backed by the Royal College of Surgeons, would see new contracts
:12:06. > :12:08.tested at a limited number of hospitals, rather than being
:12:09. > :12:13.imposed across the profession. With all the sport, here's
:12:14. > :12:16.Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes Leicester City's dream of a first
:12:17. > :12:23.Premier League title moved a step closer today after they thrashed
:12:24. > :12:25.Swansea City 4-0 today. They're now eight points clear
:12:26. > :12:27.with three games left. Our correspondent
:12:28. > :12:44.Andy Swiss reports. It is now or never, he said,
:12:45. > :12:48.week. Claudio Ranieri's players emerged, without the suspended Jamie
:12:49. > :12:51.Vardy, who was watching from the stands. Any fears that his team
:12:52. > :12:56.might struggle without him did not last long. Ashley
:12:57. > :12:59.might struggle without him did not an early gift, accepted by Riyad
:13:00. > :13:06.Mahrez. Not a bad start, after ten minutes. And it got better come
:13:07. > :13:13.thanks to Jamie Vardy's replacement. In a season of fairy tales, it
:13:14. > :13:16.thanks to Jamie Vardy's replacement. the turn of Argentine Ulloa to ease
:13:17. > :13:24.any nerves before the break. He then got number three after the break.
:13:25. > :13:27.That is what euphoria looks like. In the closing minutes, Marc Albrighton
:13:28. > :13:33.rounded off their perfect afternoon in suitably glorious style.
:13:34. > :13:35.rounded off their perfect afternoon from the fans. Leicester now eight
:13:36. > :13:38.points clear and a quite extraordinary title triumph is now
:13:39. > :13:43.within touching distance. In the early kick-off,
:13:44. > :13:45.Sunderland held Arsenal to a goalless draw to creep out
:13:46. > :13:47.of the relegation zone. And there were wins
:13:48. > :13:49.for Inverness and Hamilton Crystal Palace have
:13:50. > :13:53.reached their first FA They beat Watford 2-1 at Wembley
:13:54. > :13:57.to set up a repeat of the 1990 final Watford equalised,
:13:58. > :14:02.but Connor Wickham scored The London Marathon
:14:03. > :14:08.was won by Eliud Kipchoge The defending champion just missed
:14:09. > :14:12.out on a world record. His Kenyan team-mate Jemima Sumgong
:14:13. > :14:14.won the women's race The London Marathon is a fantastic
:14:15. > :14:28.Joe Wilson reports. The London Marathon is a fantastic
:14:29. > :14:33.expression of mass achievement, at a time of deep doubt in athletics.
:14:34. > :14:36.Kenya's government has finally met anti-dumping standards, hoping to be
:14:37. > :14:39.allowed to compete at the Olympics. There was nothing to doubt the
:14:40. > :14:46.integrity of their runners here. Eliud Kipchoge was pushing up the
:14:47. > :14:50.front, in the end, winning with ease, so smooth, he wondered if he
:14:51. > :14:57.should have broken the world record. He missed it by some eight seconds.
:14:58. > :15:00.The women's race was close. Jemima Sumgong another Kenyan, showed
:15:01. > :15:04.extraordinary resilience to get to her feet after, win the race,
:15:05. > :15:12.matching any feet of bravery in this event. David Weir, in white sleeves,
:15:13. > :15:15.was trying again to win his record seventh London Marathon. But it was
:15:16. > :15:19.taken by Marcel Hug. Dame Kelly Holmes extended herself with
:15:20. > :15:25.Olympian strides to finish her first marathon in three hours 11 minutes.
:15:26. > :15:31.For all competitors, the whole point of a marathon is to prove that
:15:32. > :15:37.distance is no barrier. Well, this year, this race took that to
:15:38. > :15:42.extremes. On the International Space Station, strapped to a treadmill in
:15:43. > :15:47.the absence of gravity, Tim Peake ran the gruelling 26 miles 385
:15:48. > :15:51.yards, and finished where he had started.
:15:52. > :15:54.While Leicester's football team are still on course for glory,
:15:55. > :15:56.there was heartbreak for the city's rugby union side.
:15:57. > :15:59.They missed out on the final of the European Champions Cup,
:16:00. > :16:00.narrowly beaten by Racing 92 despite a late comeback.
:16:01. > :16:03.19-16 the final score in Nottingham.
:16:04. > :16:10.There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,
:16:11. > :16:12.and we're back with the late news at Ten.