:00:09. > :00:12.President Obama ends his visit to the UK
:00:13. > :00:14.urging Britain not to pull up the drawbridge.
:00:15. > :00:16.He tells me that in an increasingly interconnected world,
:00:17. > :00:20.Britain is better off staying in the European Union.
:00:21. > :00:22.It would be, I think, tempting, for a lot of people,
:00:23. > :00:26.to believe that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we can carve
:00:27. > :00:29.a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems
:00:30. > :00:38.As the president travelled on to Germany, campaigners
:00:39. > :00:41.in Britain dismissed his warning that it could take a decade
:00:42. > :00:46.to negotiate an independent trade deal outside the EU.
:00:47. > :00:49.If Australia, with a tiny population, in relative terms,
:00:50. > :00:52.can from start to finish, conclude a deal with America in 10
:00:53. > :01:00.We'll have more reaction to the president's intervention
:01:01. > :01:02.and we'll have the latest from Germany.
:01:03. > :01:06.The retailer BHS could file for administration
:01:07. > :01:10.as soon as tomorrow - putting 11,000 jobs at risk.
:01:11. > :01:18.Dozens of councils say the plans to force all schools in England
:01:19. > :01:20.to become academies could fail to raise standards.
:01:21. > :01:23.And Eliud Kipchogi of Kenya wins the London Marathon with a course
:01:24. > :01:25.record and his compatriot Jemima Sumgong did recover
:01:26. > :01:52.President Obama's warning that it could take Britain up to a decade
:01:53. > :01:55.to secure a trade deal with the USA outside the European Union has been
:01:56. > :02:00.dismissed by those campaigning for Britain to leave.
:02:01. > :02:03.Mr Obama had previously said the UK would be at the 'back of the queue'
:02:04. > :02:09.Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said British voters would not take
:02:10. > :02:16.The president has travelled on to Germany today but before
:02:17. > :02:19.he left, I asked him to explain how it would be possible for Britain
:02:20. > :02:21.to have a special relationship with America and be at the back
:02:22. > :02:27.Actually, the special relationship is not contingent
:02:28. > :02:35.There are emotional and cultural and commercial and strategic bonds
:02:36. > :02:39.between our two countries, that are unmatched by any two
:02:40. > :02:45.As a practical matter, what we are doing with respect
:02:46. > :02:54.to trade is negotiating with big blocks of countries,
:02:55. > :02:57.It's the phrase, isn't it, "back of the queue",
:02:58. > :03:00.which has I suppose offended some people and alarmed others,
:03:01. > :03:06.No, as I said, it was simply a response to I think the argument
:03:07. > :03:11.that I've heard from others, who are proposing to leave the EU,
:03:12. > :03:17.that somehow America would be able to do things more quickly
:03:18. > :03:26.with the UK than if they were in the European Union and I was simply
:03:27. > :03:30.The UK would not be able to negotiate something
:03:31. > :03:39.We wouldn't abandon our efforts to negotiate a
:03:40. > :03:43.trade deal with our largest trading partner,
:03:44. > :03:54.the European market, but
:03:55. > :03:57.So maybe not right at the back of the queue,
:03:58. > :03:59.towards the back of the
:04:00. > :04:04.I think the broader point is that if you're
:04:05. > :04:06.interested in trade, we are on the cusp of getting
:04:07. > :04:23.a trade deal done with the European Union.
:04:24. > :04:26.seamlessly with a massive market, one of the wealthiest markets in the
:04:27. > :04:29.world, that accounts for 44% of my exports,
:04:30. > :04:33.the idea that I'm going to
:04:34. > :04:39.be in a better position to export and trade by being outside of that
:04:40. > :04:46.market and not being in the room setting the rules and standards by
:04:47. > :04:51.which trade takes place I think it's wrong.
:04:52. > :04:56.You've been very clear the special relationship, you just said
:04:57. > :04:59.We've been focusing on lots of things,
:05:00. > :05:05.including intelligence sharing, the threat from terrorist
:05:06. > :05:09.Is it possible to say today that if there were an exit
:05:10. > :05:16.from the EU those elements of the special relationship wouldn't be
:05:17. > :05:23.They wouldn't be affected in the sense that our intelligence
:05:24. > :05:41.Our militaries work extremely closely.
:05:42. > :05:43.Kingdom will have less influence in Europe and as a consequence less
:05:44. > :05:46.influence globally, in the sense we rely heavily on the UK
:05:47. > :05:48.as a partner globally, on a whole range of
:05:49. > :05:54.There will be some people watching, they put a much higher
:05:55. > :05:57.price on the bond with the US than they do with the bond on the EU.
:05:58. > :06:01.They will say the president is very clear, the special
:06:02. > :06:04.relationship is not going to be damaged
:06:05. > :06:06.by any decision on coming in
:06:07. > :06:08.or out of the EU and if that's the case, we shouldn't be concerned
:06:09. > :06:10.about coming out, that's how they will probably
:06:11. > :06:16.Well, I guess if the countries that are
:06:17. > :06:19.closest to you, that care about you the most, the countries
:06:20. > :06:23.with whom you cooperate most frequently, those
:06:24. > :06:25.who you have a special relationship with,
:06:26. > :06:28.are suggesting to you that you
:06:29. > :06:30.might be better off staying in this relationship with Europe, it's worth
:06:31. > :06:39.There a sharp focus once again on some of the
:06:40. > :06:47.really dangerous flash points around the world.
:06:48. > :06:50.If your range of options in Syria includes the military option
:06:51. > :06:52.of some kind, are you concerned in the European context for example
:06:53. > :06:55.that parliament is like the British Parliament have shown
:06:56. > :06:57.very little appetite to be engaging in that way,
:06:58. > :07:00.so how would not affect your thinking in terms of the options
:07:01. > :07:04.Syria has been a heartbreaking situation of enormous
:07:05. > :07:07.complexity, and I don't think there are any simple solutions to Syria,
:07:08. > :07:14.and those who pretend that there are probably haven't been
:07:15. > :07:16.paying a lot of attention to the details.
:07:17. > :07:26.It is my view that it would be a mistake
:07:27. > :07:28.for the United States, or Great Britain or a combination
:07:29. > :07:30.of Western states to send in ground troops and
:07:31. > :07:35.There are plenty of voices in Europe, you
:07:36. > :07:37.will know better than anyone, who say that part of the reason that
:07:38. > :07:40.Europe has been dealing with such a big migration crisis is the lack
:07:41. > :07:42.of assertive response, if you like, or
:07:43. > :07:44.the lack of assertive engagement, not least from the US.
:07:45. > :07:57.You can't say - we don't want to do anything in Syria,
:07:58. > :08:01.our Parliaments won't ratify any action in Syria,
:08:02. > :08:03.but we do want the United States to do
:08:04. > :08:15.One of the challenges during the course of my
:08:16. > :08:18.presidency I think is to encourage everybody to recognise that whether
:08:19. > :08:20.we like it or not, we are in an interconnected world.
:08:21. > :08:23.This relates to Brexit, this relates to Nato,
:08:24. > :08:25.this relates to the migration crisis, this relates to
:08:26. > :08:27.counter-terrorism efforts, it relates to public health issues like
:08:28. > :08:29.Ebola, it is a problem in the United States
:08:30. > :08:31.as people have debates about
:08:32. > :08:39.It would be I think tempting for a lot of people to believe
:08:40. > :08:42.that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we
:08:43. > :08:46.can create a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems
:08:47. > :08:54.President Obama speaking to me before he travelled on to Germany,
:08:55. > :08:57.and we'll have more from there in a moment.
:08:58. > :08:59.But there's been plenty of reaction to his comments,
:09:00. > :09:02.with many of those campiagning to leave the EU expressing
:09:03. > :09:04.anger and resentment at his intervention in the debate.
:09:05. > :09:06.Let's talk to our political correspondent Ben Wright
:09:07. > :09:15.Ben, given the extremely high-profile of this intervention by
:09:16. > :09:20.the President, where does that now leave the Leave campaign, looking at
:09:21. > :09:25.the week ahead and the weeks ahead? Well, Huwa tough few days for the
:09:26. > :09:28.Leave campaign. I'll bet they are glad Air Force One has gone but they
:09:29. > :09:31.welcomed some of what President Obama said to you - for instance his
:09:32. > :09:34.assurance that the security relationship between the UK and US
:09:35. > :09:37.would remain strong and special, whatever the outcome of the vote.
:09:38. > :09:42.They also detect ap softening in his tone on trade. They think he sounded
:09:43. > :09:47.more conciliatory. They don't believe it could take as much as ten
:09:48. > :09:52.years to get a deal between the UK and US. They say look at recent US
:09:53. > :09:57.history they have done deals with country quicker than that and they
:09:58. > :10:02.are confident Britain could get one. For his part, the Ukip leader, Nigel
:10:03. > :10:07.Farage said Britain could get one. I think the American President
:10:08. > :10:10.is coming out with the same rubbish that David Cameron is coming up
:10:11. > :10:13.with - basically the line is that Britain isn't capable of negotiating
:10:14. > :10:17.its own deal in the world. Well, little countries
:10:18. > :10:19.like Switzerland have more free trade agreement than we do,
:10:20. > :10:21.they do it on their own with a tiny population
:10:22. > :10:25.in relative terms - can from start to finish,
:10:26. > :10:27.conclude a deal with America in ten months, we can do
:10:28. > :10:31.even better than that. Nigel Farage said the issues of
:10:32. > :10:36.immigration and border control will be crucial to voters on the in-out
:10:37. > :10:39.referendum and on that front, the Home Secretary, Theresa May conceded
:10:40. > :10:45.this morning that the free movement of people did make it harder for the
:10:46. > :10:48.UK to curb immigration. I'm told tomorrow Michael Gove and Boris
:10:49. > :10:52.Johnson, lead figures in the Leave campaign will launch scathing
:10:53. > :10:55.attacks on the Government's EU renegotiation in newspaper articles.
:10:56. > :10:58.So we know now what the President of the United States thinks about the
:10:59. > :11:01.referendum. His views have been made emphatically clear and the
:11:02. > :11:05.Government is delighted. Now the Leave campaign will try and hit back
:11:06. > :11:10.and move the debate on. Ben, thank you very much. Ben Wright on the
:11:11. > :11:15.latest on the Leave campaign. As we said, President Obama is now
:11:16. > :11:18.visiting Germany where he's been holding talks with Chancellor Merkel
:11:19. > :11:20.about a controversial trade deal between the
:11:21. > :11:23.United States and the EU. Both leaders said they wanted
:11:24. > :11:26.to push ahead with the agreement, known as TTIP, despite opposition
:11:27. > :11:28.in parts of Europe and the US where there are claims the deal
:11:29. > :11:30.could drive down wages, weaken environmental protection
:11:31. > :11:38.and workers' labour rights. Our North America Editor Jon Sopel
:11:39. > :11:40.is travelling with the President and is in the German city
:11:41. > :11:43.of Wolfsburg tonight. What chances this one between the EU
:11:44. > :11:53.and the US will come into being? Let's talk about the deal at the
:11:54. > :11:58.front of the queue rather than the back, the deal between Europe and
:11:59. > :12:03.the US. Barack Obama said tonight there is a chance that the deal
:12:04. > :12:06.could be concluded by the end of this year so. That will have taken
:12:07. > :12:10.roughly four years to complete. But he said that ratification would take
:12:11. > :12:13.a lot longer. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. These
:12:14. > :12:18.things are highly complex. He held a news conference a short time ago
:12:19. > :12:22.with Angela Merkel. This time it was purely about that controversial
:12:23. > :12:25.trade deal that you outlined. There was no mention of Britain and its
:12:26. > :12:30.relationship with the European Union. And my sense of it is this,
:12:31. > :12:34.Huw, that Barack Obama feels, I think, very pleased that he has
:12:35. > :12:37.intervened in the debate in the way he has. He knew it would cause
:12:38. > :12:41.controversy. He knew that some people would take exception to what
:12:42. > :12:44.he said. But he will go back to America feeling pleased he has done
:12:45. > :12:48.that. That said, I don't expect that we will hear much more from him on
:12:49. > :12:53.the subject. He's made his intervention. He has said what he
:12:54. > :12:58.wanted to say. He will now have to wait and see what the British people
:12:59. > :13:05.think of what he has had to say when they vote in late June. All right,
:13:06. > :13:08.Jon, thank you very much. Let's look a look at some of the day's other
:13:09. > :13:11.news: BBC News understands the retailer
:13:12. > :13:13.BHS could file for administration Sports Direct has been in talks
:13:14. > :13:19.to buy some of its 164 stores but a major obstacle has
:13:20. > :13:21.been the huge deficit Our business correspondent,
:13:22. > :13:29.Joe Lynam, has the story. BHS hasn't exactly been lighting up
:13:30. > :13:32.Britain's high-street of late. Sharper and more nimble retailers
:13:33. > :13:36.have stolen a march. Despite getting a number
:13:37. > :13:38.of major rent reductions from its landlords last month,
:13:39. > :13:42.BHS has struggled to get other loans in place
:13:43. > :13:45.with which to rejuvenate the brand. So, 13 months after it was sold
:13:46. > :13:50.by the entrepreneur Sir Philip Green for ?1, BHS looks as if it
:13:51. > :13:52.could file for administration Problems at BHS didn't come
:13:53. > :13:59.as a surprise to these The problem with BHS is,
:14:00. > :14:05.who does it appeal to? It doesn't necessarily appeal
:14:06. > :14:07.to somebody of my age, We like the trousers in there,
:14:08. > :14:14.that's all I can say! I do know if it's
:14:15. > :14:16.moved with the times. That's a shame, because you always
:14:17. > :14:18.get really good customer British Home Stores opened its first
:14:19. > :14:22.shop in Brixton in 1928. In the 1980s it merged
:14:23. > :14:25.with Mothercare and Habitat And in 2000 Sir Philip Green paid
:14:26. > :14:33.?200 million for BHS. Within two years he had paid himself
:14:34. > :14:36.a dividend of ?164 million. But he wasn't able to turn
:14:37. > :14:41.the company around and sold it A year later the new owners haven't
:14:42. > :14:48.been able to secure the money to reinvent BHS, and may be forced
:14:49. > :14:51.to call in the administrators. And then there's the issue
:14:52. > :14:53.of the pension deficit - that's the difference
:14:54. > :14:55.between the money needed by BHS staff in retirement,
:14:56. > :14:58.and what's already been set aside, which currently stands
:14:59. > :15:02.at ?0.5 billion. They will probably paid
:15:03. > :15:05.by the government backed pension protection fund,
:15:06. > :15:07.but it does raise the issue of how the company was run,
:15:08. > :15:09.and whether they can find I think it is more than likely
:15:10. > :15:14.it won't be salvaged, and I think it will be the biggest
:15:15. > :15:17.collapse since Woolworths. It's a business that perhaps hasn't
:15:18. > :15:20.adapted to change in the retail sector as quick as it might have
:15:21. > :15:23.done, and every category that British Home Stores works in,
:15:24. > :15:26.has kind of been stolen You can buy furniture from other
:15:27. > :15:31.places, you can buy your school uniforms now from the supermarkets,
:15:32. > :15:33.and that's really had The retail business
:15:34. > :15:37.in Britain is tough. It doesn't respect well-known brands
:15:38. > :15:41.such as Woolworths or Comet. BHS may find new owners,
:15:42. > :15:44.but it might just as easily disappear entirely
:15:45. > :15:51.from our high streets. Three people have been arrested
:15:52. > :15:53.on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two men
:15:54. > :15:56.were found in a garden who was 52, and Matthew
:15:57. > :16:03.Higgins, who was 49, died Two women and a man are being
:16:04. > :16:08.held in police custody. A British man and two
:16:09. > :16:10.of his children have been killed in a motorway crash
:16:11. > :16:12.in eastern France. Their car hit a safety barrier
:16:13. > :16:15.near Dijon this morning. The man's wife and another
:16:16. > :16:20.child are in hospital. The Health Secretary,
:16:21. > :16:23.Jeremy Hunt, has rejected a plan which was meant to avert the junior
:16:24. > :16:25.doctors' strike in England The cross-party proposal -
:16:26. > :16:29.backed by the Royal College of Surgeons - would see
:16:30. > :16:33.new contracts tried at a limited number of hospitals,
:16:34. > :16:35.rather than being imposed A group of local authorities
:16:36. > :16:44.is warning that Government plans to compel all schools
:16:45. > :16:46.in England to become academies The County Councils Network,
:16:47. > :16:51.which represents 37 largely Conservative local authorities,
:16:52. > :16:53.says it could also prove poor Its chairman, Paul Carter, told
:16:54. > :16:58.the BBC that ministers should look Our education editor,
:16:59. > :17:02.Branwen Jeffreys, has more details. Ministers will be working even
:17:03. > :17:08.harder in the next few weeks, trying to overcome opposition
:17:09. > :17:12.to their academy plans. For the first time,
:17:13. > :17:15.county councils in England Most are Conservative-run but say
:17:16. > :17:22.these Government plans I think that most county councils
:17:23. > :17:29.across this country deliver exceedingly good support services
:17:30. > :17:35.and value for money to their schools and I have grave concern that
:17:36. > :17:38.what will replace local government's role will not be of the same
:17:39. > :17:43.standard and quality. At this Devon primary,
:17:44. > :17:46.it's a different story. It's part of one of the largest
:17:47. > :17:51.multi-academy trusts. In the space of just a few years
:17:52. > :17:55.this school has gone from being in special measures,
:17:56. > :17:57.to being rated as good, Of course, a lot of that is about
:17:58. > :18:04.what happens in the classroom, The debate, now, is about
:18:05. > :18:09.whether making all state schools academies is really the way
:18:10. > :18:14.to drive up standards. The boss of this chain
:18:15. > :18:17.of schools isn't sure, but then he's unusual,
:18:18. > :18:20.paid much less than others He thinks academies are a chance
:18:21. > :18:27.for teachers to try new ideas. Why don't we try this -
:18:28. > :18:33.why don't we try that? So I'm excited about what I don't
:18:34. > :18:35.know about the future, about the fact that we have
:18:36. > :18:37.unlocked potential, rather than we are delivering
:18:38. > :18:41.a preconceived model. But, now, 15,000 schools could be
:18:42. > :18:47.forced to become academies, he is worried about so much
:18:48. > :18:50.change, so quickly. The problem is, do we
:18:51. > :18:54.have the capacity to be Firstly, it is not
:18:55. > :18:59.a preconceived perfect model. The jury is out on what
:19:00. > :19:05.works and what doesn't So, can the Education Secretary
:19:06. > :19:14.persuade her critics it all adds up? This week she'll face
:19:15. > :19:16.questions from MPs. Nicky Morgan says the end result
:19:17. > :19:20.will be greater freedom for schools, a system that will step in faster
:19:21. > :19:25.where there is failure. Forcing the pace of change
:19:26. > :19:41.in schools has proved a tougher idea It's ban very busy day of sport, the
:19:42. > :19:44.London Marathon and memorable football. Lizzie is at the BBC
:19:45. > :19:52.Sports Centre. And Match of the Day 2,
:19:53. > :19:58.and Sportscene in Scotland, follow the news so please
:19:59. > :20:00.avert your attention if you don't Leicester City took a giatn
:20:01. > :20:05.stride towards their first Premier League title
:20:06. > :20:05.by thrashing Swansea City 4-0. Leonardo Ulloa scoring twice,
:20:06. > :20:09.ably filling the boots of Leicester now have an eight-point
:20:10. > :20:17.lead with 3 games left. Another little step. Because we know
:20:18. > :20:23.the battle now is very, very hard. We need five points more and now we
:20:24. > :20:26.have to be focussed for the next match.
:20:27. > :20:28.In the day's other games, Sunderland are out the relegation
:20:29. > :20:32.There were wins for Inverness and Hamilton
:20:33. > :20:37.Crystal Palace have reached their first FA
:20:38. > :20:42.They beat Watford 2-1 to set-up a repeat of the 1990 final
:20:43. > :20:48.For Crystal Palace and Watford, days like these are rare,
:20:49. > :20:50.the journey to Wembley may be short, but their wait for
:20:51. > :20:55.The Eagles and the Hornets, labouring in the league,
:20:56. > :20:58.yet flying in the Cup and only five minutes in,
:20:59. > :21:01.Yannick Bolasie soared to put Palace ahead.
:21:02. > :21:04.If they won that aerial battle, the same couldn't be said
:21:05. > :21:07.of the next, Joel Ward almost gifting Watford a route back.
:21:08. > :21:09.Palace had been warned and after half-time
:21:10. > :21:15.Troy Deeney, the Watford captain, leading by example.
:21:16. > :21:18.With the sky seemingly the best route to go,
:21:19. > :21:20.Palace used it again and this time Connor Wickham
:21:21. > :21:29.So intent on defending their lead, Palace even began tackling each
:21:30. > :21:31.other and helped by Watford's poor finishing, they were
:21:32. > :21:37.Crystal Palace have never won the FA Cup, but now,
:21:38. > :21:41.thanks to this man, Connor Wickham, they have a chance to make history
:21:42. > :21:49.when they face Manchester United in the final here next month.
:21:50. > :21:52.The London Marathon was won by Eliud Kipchoge
:21:53. > :21:56.The defending champion's Kenyan team mate, Jemima
:21:57. > :22:04.Our Correspondent Joe Wilson reports.
:22:05. > :22:06.The London Marathon is a great expression of mass
:22:07. > :22:08.achievement at a time of deep doubt in athletics.
:22:09. > :22:11.Kenya's Government has finally met anti-doping standards,
:22:12. > :22:14.hoping to be allowed to compete at the Olympics.
:22:15. > :22:18.There was nothing to doubt the integrity of their runners here.
:22:19. > :22:21.Eliud Kipchoge and Stanley Biwott pushed each other until Kipchoge
:22:22. > :22:36.Here, too close. have broken the world record.
:22:37. > :22:39.Jemima Sumgong, another Kenyan, showed extraordinary resilience
:22:40. > :22:42.to get to her feet and win the race, matching any feat of
:22:43. > :22:47.David Weir, in white sleeves, was trying again to win a record
:22:48. > :22:51.Marcel Hug of Switzerland broke the tape.
:22:52. > :23:03.Dame Kelly Holmes extended herself with Olympian stride to finish her
:23:04. > :23:07.first marathon in three House of Commons 11 minutes. Well, for all
:23:08. > :23:13.competitors, the whole point of a marathon is to prove that distance
:23:14. > :23:19.is no barrier. Well, this year, this race took that to extreme. On the
:23:20. > :23:25.International Space Station, strapped to a treadmill, in the
:23:26. > :23:27.absence of gravity, Tim Peake ran the 26 miles, 3885 yards, and
:23:28. > :23:35.finished where he started. And while Leicester's football team
:23:36. > :23:38.are still on course for glory, there was heartbreak for the city's
:23:39. > :23:40.Rugby Union side who missed out on the final
:23:41. > :23:43.of the European Champions Cup, narrowly beaten by Racing 92
:23:44. > :23:52.despite a late comeback. Thank you very much. A quick
:23:53. > :23:55.reminder there is more on all of today's stories on the BBC News
:23:56. > :23:56.Channel and on BBC News online.