:00:19. > :00:25.The Government has said that Britain will defend the interests
:00:26. > :00:30.of Gibraltar during the Brexit negotiations following warnings that
:00:31. > :00:32.Spain is attempting to use the process to regain sovereignty
:00:33. > :00:37.The EU has suggested that a Brexit deal won't cover Gibraltar
:00:38. > :00:39.without a separate agreement between London and Madrid.
:00:40. > :00:44.Here's our Political Correspondent, Matt Cole.
:00:45. > :00:50.homes The imposing rock at the mouth of the Mediterranean has been in
:00:51. > :00:55.British hands since 1713. Its fortified low case ten miles from
:00:56. > :00:58.north Africa's coast's made it a key strategic base for Britain's
:00:59. > :01:01.military, as well as home to 30,000 British subjects. The outpost shares
:01:02. > :01:04.a border with Spain which has long sought to reclaim it, but this week,
:01:05. > :01:10.Theresa May made it clear that would not happen as part of Brexit. But
:01:11. > :01:14.yesterday, just two days after that Commons statement, the EU's draft
:01:15. > :01:17.Brexit negotiating guidelines were issued, including this clause, which
:01:18. > :01:22.said: No future agreements between the EU and the United Kingdom may
:01:23. > :01:25.apply to Gibraltar without the kingdom of Spain's approval. Some
:01:26. > :01:30.say Spain is trying to exploit Brexit. Every country looks to look
:01:31. > :01:36.after its own interests and this is what Spain is now trying to do over
:01:37. > :01:40.Gibraltar. It's absolutely wrong that any future Free Trade
:01:41. > :01:44.Agreement, any future security, bilateral arrangements, or anything
:01:45. > :01:47.else, should depend on Britain giving some concession to Madrid
:01:48. > :01:55.over Gibraltar. In Gibraltar, officials are furious. We are not
:01:56. > :02:03.going to be a pawn in Brexit, we want the culprits of Gibraltar. We
:02:04. > :02:07.are the partner of the EU and we are the ones walking away, but we are
:02:08. > :02:11.not responsible for that. Triggering the Article 50 process leaving for
:02:12. > :02:14.Britain didn't include reference to Gibraltar and some critics say it
:02:15. > :02:18.should have. What this perhaps underlines is the challenge facing
:02:19. > :02:21.Britain as it begins negotiating as a single nation against 27, each of
:02:22. > :02:24.which have their own vested interests. Matt Cole, BBC News.
:02:25. > :02:37.Why do you think Spain are making this move? Some are thinking perhaps
:02:38. > :02:39.they have seen an opportunity, the sequencing of the Brexit
:02:40. > :02:44.negotiations, the announcing of it on Friday. The idea is that the
:02:45. > :02:48.divorce talks come first, then the trade negotiations on a future trade
:02:49. > :02:53.deal. Enit comes to the negotiations, Britain may have
:02:54. > :02:57.leverage over spin because Spain wants to protect its interests, like
:02:58. > :03:01.Santander for example. So Spain seeking to get the deal done on
:03:02. > :03:04.Gibraltar, if it can, seeing an opportunity during the Brexit
:03:05. > :03:10.divorce negotiations in that section as they deal with it. It remains as
:03:11. > :03:15.only draft plans at the moment. Whether the rest of the EU will back
:03:16. > :03:19.Spain in its defire for this and whether Britain will hold the line
:03:20. > :03:21.and keep Gibraltar as it has done for 300 years.
:03:22. > :03:23.Thousands of households on high incomes have received taxpayers'
:03:24. > :03:27.money to buy a home according to official figures.
:03:28. > :03:30.They reveal that the Help to Buy scheme which offers subsidies
:03:31. > :03:33.to buyers has helped four thousand households in England
:03:34. > :03:36.earning more than ?100,000 a year to purchase a home.
:03:37. > :03:41.Our Business Correspondent Joe Lynam reports.
:03:42. > :03:48.Introduced four years ago when the UK economy simply wasn't growing at
:03:49. > :03:51.awe, the Help To Buy scheme aimed to stoke up house building and help
:03:52. > :03:56.mostly first time buyers get on the ladder. Since then, 250,000 people
:03:57. > :04:00.have bought property using the Help To Buy schemes. But research by
:04:01. > :04:05.Labour soots that existing homeowners have wealthy households
:04:06. > :04:10.have benefitted as well. Using official data research found that
:04:11. > :04:15.around 4,000 households in England earning more than ?100,000 used the
:04:16. > :04:18.Help To Buy equity loan scheme and 20,000 households used it even
:04:19. > :04:23.though they weren't even first-time buyers. This scheme in place playing
:04:24. > :04:29.valuable part in helping people get into the housing market for the
:04:30. > :04:32.first time should only be there for first-time buyers and shouldn't be
:04:33. > :04:37.there for people earning over ?100,000 a year, it just doesn't
:04:38. > :04:41.make sense. The Help To Buy equity loan scheme offers buyers up to a
:04:42. > :04:46.fifth of the cost of a new build home so they only need to provide a
:04:47. > :04:50.5% deposit. The Government says almost 400,000 people have been
:04:51. > :04:56.helped and 8.6 billion pounds has been promised for it in England
:04:57. > :05:00.until 2021. When lenders now once again are not scared about falling
:05:01. > :05:03.house prices and are prepared to advance money to people who want to
:05:04. > :05:07.buy homes. The question is, has it now gone on for too long and is it
:05:08. > :05:11.now arted officially pushing up house prices, particularly those of
:05:12. > :05:16.new build homes? The fact that the Help To Buy scheme's helped existing
:05:17. > :05:22.and sometimes wealthy households will worry some economists. They've
:05:23. > :05:25.long seen concerns about consumer endebtedness, rising house prices
:05:26. > :05:30.and savings at Savage an all-time record low. If the cost-of-living
:05:31. > :05:36.continues to rise as it has in recent weeks and months, that'll
:05:37. > :05:37.make the problem even worse, Joe linen, BBC News.
:05:38. > :05:41.BBC News has learned that only 5% of prison staff in England and Wales
:05:42. > :05:44.will get new pay allowances of up to ?5,000.
:05:45. > :05:48.And many of those who qualify for the increase are already
:05:49. > :05:55.The main opposition in Paraguay says a young activist has died
:05:56. > :06:08.Several people were injured during running battles between the police
:06:09. > :06:11.and protesters. Nottinghamshire police are searching
:06:12. > :06:13.for a woman suspected It comes after a family court warned
:06:14. > :06:28.that 42-year-old Samantha Baldwin From door-to-door, the police are
:06:29. > :06:37.looking for clues in their search for the missing boys and their
:06:38. > :06:42.mother. Samantha Baldwin, nine-year-old Louis Madge and
:06:43. > :06:45.six-year-old Dylan disappeared. The same day Nottingham courts ordered
:06:46. > :06:51.the boys should be removed from her care. The police are treating it as
:06:52. > :06:54.an abduction inquiry. I would like to say to Samantha directly, maze do
:06:55. > :06:59.the right thing and return the boys safely to the court. Secondly, to
:07:00. > :07:05.anybody out there across the nation who has any information, however
:07:06. > :07:11.small that may be, to contact us. That includes anyone who runs or
:07:12. > :07:16.owns, bed-and-breakfasts, hotels, caravan parks, campsites, or holiday
:07:17. > :07:19.lets, to check your registers, check who you've got occupying your
:07:20. > :07:22.premises and please bear in mind the group could be staying under a
:07:23. > :07:26.different name. The two boys have now been made
:07:27. > :07:30.wards of court, their mother regarded as posing a risk of harm.
:07:31. > :07:34.The police haven't ruled out the possibility someone else might be
:07:35. > :07:38.involved in harbouring Samantha Baldwin. Two women arrested on
:07:39. > :07:40.suspicion of assisting an offender have been bailed. Peter Harris, BBC
:07:41. > :07:42.News. With all the sport, here's
:07:43. > :07:47.John Watson at the BBC Sport Centre. The day's first match
:07:48. > :07:50.in the Premier League, the lunchtime kick-off
:07:51. > :07:52.between Liverppool and Everton in the Merseyside derby,
:07:53. > :07:55.is under way at Anfield. The home side made the best possible
:07:56. > :08:05.start, Sadio Mane scoring Everton then equalised through
:08:06. > :08:10.Pennington after Williams failed to find the net with the first effort.
:08:11. > :08:13.Coutinho scored for Liverpool with this sublime effort. It's currently
:08:14. > :08:14.2-1 to Liverpool. A win for Liverpool would see them
:08:15. > :08:17.pull level with second place Tottenham, who trail league leaders
:08:18. > :08:20.Chelsea by ten points, Tiger Woods has pulled out of Golf's
:08:21. > :08:24.first major of the year, The Masters, claiming
:08:25. > :08:26.he is not tournament ready. After 15 months out following back
:08:27. > :08:29.surgery, he returned to action Back spasms forced him
:08:30. > :08:32.to pull out of a tournament in Dubai back in February,
:08:33. > :08:36.and he's failed in his race to be fit enough to feature
:08:37. > :08:38.at Augusta in America. Woods won the first of his 14
:08:39. > :08:40.majors at the Masters, twenty years ago and says
:08:41. > :08:43.there is no timetable Roger Federer won
:08:44. > :08:47.a thrilling three-hour match against Nick Kyrgios
:08:48. > :08:49.to set up a final against The victory means Federer has won 18
:08:50. > :08:57.of 19 matches in 2017. The final is a repeat of this year's
:08:58. > :09:21.Australian Open final Tomorrow it's the annual boat race.
:09:22. > :09:26.History will be made with something that's rarely happened in 200 years
:09:27. > :09:32.of competition. Adam Wild reports. This is a rivalry quite unlike any
:09:33. > :09:40.other. Winning is everything. Losing unbearable. But at the heart of this
:09:41. > :09:43.year's battle is a war. William War will become tonne third person in
:09:44. > :09:50.history to race for both Cambridge and Oxford. It's a bit different but
:09:51. > :09:56.it's a great honour, a very special race and I feel very privileged to
:09:57. > :10:01.be part of it in this way. Warr was part of the losing Cambridge crew
:10:02. > :10:08.back in 2015. Across the line go Oxford and they have won the 161th
:10:09. > :10:12.university boat race. Now his academic studies have taken him over
:10:13. > :10:16.to Oxford, a switch of boats that has apparently left some former
:10:17. > :10:19.team-mates harbouring extra motivation. It hasn't been that
:10:20. > :10:25.easy. Guys that I was very close with and I would speak to sort of
:10:26. > :10:29.every week who I rode with at Cambridge, I barely speak to them
:10:30. > :10:34.any more. Some guys said yes, that makes sense, you know, other guys
:10:35. > :10:40.didn't respect the decision at all and said, you know, they really hope
:10:41. > :10:45.I lose for Oxford. They completely disagreed with the decision. Still
:10:46. > :10:47.this is of course a team sport, and with preparations almost over,
:10:48. > :10:53.publicly at least, Cambridge are keen to concentrate on their own
:10:54. > :10:58.boat. It's more about us winning than them losing, but it's sorts of
:10:59. > :11:01.I guess maybe a hidden animosity between the two that occasionally
:11:02. > :11:05.comes out. We are focussed on ourselves, I'm good friends with
:11:06. > :11:09.Will who's in the Oxford crew, so there are no hard feelings, no
:11:10. > :11:13.feelings really at all. Hard feelings or not, the undercurrent of
:11:14. > :11:20.rivalry remains just below the surface. Winning is everything.
:11:21. > :11:25.Whichever boat you're in. Adam Wild, BBC News. That race is live on BBC
:11:26. > :11:28.One tomorrow afternoon. You can follow coverage of the early match
:11:29. > :11:32.in the Premier League as well, Liverpool up against Everton still
:11:33. > :11:36.leading 2-1 in the early kick off there, commentary on BBC Radio Five
:11:37. > :11:44.Live at the moment. For now that, is all the sport, back to you.
:11:45. > :11:48.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:11:49. > :11:59.The next news on BBC One is at 6.35; bye for now.
:12:00. > :12:07.Good afternoon. It's the 1st April and appropriately we've got some
:12:08. > :12:10.showers in the forecast. Not all doom and gloom because there is a
:12:11. > :12:12.bit of sunshine out there as well. It's been wet so far for some