:00:00. > :00:07.The rape and murder of two teenage cousins in India
:00:08. > :00:10.highlights once again the entrenched problem of sexual violence towards
:00:11. > :00:28.TRANSLATION: When I went to the police they asked me what car system
:00:29. > :00:30.I belong to and then I asked -- then they asked why I had come to them. I
:00:31. > :00:33.begged and pleaded for help. I'll be asking the campaigner
:00:34. > :00:35.Gita Sahgal why politicians and the police seem incapable
:00:36. > :00:38.of treating women as equals. In next week's Newark by-election,
:00:39. > :00:51.the Conservatives will be trying to At least one illustrious toff has
:00:52. > :00:55.had his nose bloodied here in the past. Charles I surrendered the town
:00:56. > :01:00.to a people's army back in the Civil War, and it was never the same
:01:01. > :01:04.again. Could a similar fate be about to befall David Cameron?
:01:05. > :01:06.Ed Miliband says he no longer reads British newspapers.
:01:07. > :01:09.Is he out of touch or ahead of the curve?
:01:10. > :01:12.I'll be asking some of Fleet Street's finest and the bureau chief
:01:13. > :01:25.The terrible images of two teenage Indian girls hanging from a tree,
:01:26. > :01:29.apparently killed after a gang rape in Uttar Pradesh, have been beamed
:01:30. > :01:32.around the world, drawing attention again to India's dismal record on
:01:33. > :01:36.preventing sexual violence, despite tougher laws enacted after
:01:37. > :01:41.the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012.
:01:42. > :01:44.Two alleged perpetrators have been arrested and the search is on
:01:45. > :01:49.A word of warning, Jim Reed's report contains very disturbing images
:01:50. > :02:10.Put them in jail, we will just not accept this. So when the childs in
:02:11. > :02:13.Delhi today. Students protested outside government offices.
:02:14. > :02:22.Politicians inside grappled with another shocking case of sexual
:02:23. > :02:26.violence. 150 miles away, the village of Katra Shahadatganj, a
:02:27. > :02:30.very disturbing scene. Two girls murdered. Aged just 14 and 16, they
:02:31. > :02:35.were found only in the morning. Both were raped before they were killed.
:02:36. > :02:39.The girls disappeared crossing and Orchard Field to find a toilet.
:02:40. > :02:49.Villagers angry at the police response refused to cut the bodies
:02:50. > :02:52.down. One of the go's fathers said he went to the police but they would
:02:53. > :02:56.not help because he was from a lower caste.
:02:57. > :03:03.TRANSLATION: When I first went to the police, they asked me what cost
:03:04. > :03:09.belong to and then asked why I had come to them. They said, you people
:03:10. > :03:13.create trouble for yourselves. Two police officers have now been sacked
:03:14. > :03:19.and a third has been accused of conspiring with the killers. A
:03:20. > :03:42.spokesman told Newsnight the whole judicial system needs to change.
:03:43. > :03:50.Discrimination based on caste is technically illegal in India but
:03:51. > :03:54.human rights groups say it is commonplace. Young women from a
:03:55. > :03:59.lower cost group are often the most vulnerable to sexual abuse. -- lower
:04:00. > :04:03.caste. The case has been leading news bulletins or week in India. A
:04:04. > :04:09.country which has been trying to deal with a string of high-profile
:04:10. > :04:14.sexual assault cases. There is utter outrage... In 2012, a student in
:04:15. > :04:21.Delhi was raped and murdered on a bus. That triggered nationwide
:04:22. > :04:25.protests and a change in the law, making gang rape punishable by
:04:26. > :04:32.death, even in cases where the victim survives. In India, rape as a
:04:33. > :04:36.crime is still rarely reported. According to official figures, there
:04:37. > :04:42.are just six cases for every 100,000 citizens, a fraction of the rate in
:04:43. > :04:47.the UK. Just 9% of those make it a trial and just 2% ending conviction.
:04:48. > :04:52.Both girls were cremated earlier this week in the village of Katra
:04:53. > :04:56.Shahadatganj. Two suspects in their murder, both brothers, are in
:04:57. > :04:59.custody. Police are searching for a third man.
:05:00. > :05:02.Well, a short while ago, I spoke to Gita Sahgal, the former
:05:03. > :05:05.head of Amnesty International's gender unit, and the great niece of
:05:06. > :05:21.There was an attitude that in the wake of the horrific bus killings in
:05:22. > :05:24.2012 that there would be a change in sexual attitudes towards women, but
:05:25. > :05:28.in fact have things got any better for the vast majority of women in
:05:29. > :05:34.India? I don't think things have got better for the vast majority of
:05:35. > :05:37.women India but what has happened is there has been a big debate and
:05:38. > :05:41.young people in particular are really not willing to tolerate what
:05:42. > :05:47.they might once have tolerated, so women are coming out and saying they
:05:48. > :05:52.will go out, they will be out in public, they will travel on public
:05:53. > :05:58.transport, and they want to be able to do these things safely, and they
:05:59. > :06:03.feel profoundly unsafe. And indeed I wonder if they feel that fear is
:06:04. > :06:07.reinforced, in a way, by the recent elections? For example, we have the
:06:08. > :06:15.former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh saying, boys will be boys,
:06:16. > :06:21.and his son now is chief minister. Of those attitudes are entrenched in
:06:22. > :06:29.politics, why should things change? I think the elections showed some
:06:30. > :06:31.pretty awful trends. He and various other politicians made remarks which
:06:32. > :06:37.showed they thought there was some electoral mileage in supporting
:06:38. > :06:43.people who raped. And that really is astonishing. They were reacting
:06:44. > :06:49.against the movements of women coming out, of trying to speak to a
:06:50. > :06:53.constituency that they felt would appreciate their remarks and say it
:06:54. > :06:57.was open season on women and rape. And misogyny can be worn as a badge
:06:58. > :07:02.of honour by many different politicians. A number of other
:07:03. > :07:07.politicians have said, if you wear the wrong sort of clothes, you are
:07:08. > :07:11.at risk. This isn't, of course, you need to India. People have said this
:07:12. > :07:15.in Great Britain, they have said it in America, in many other places. I
:07:16. > :07:25.think what is particularly appalling in India, though, is that we have a
:07:26. > :07:30.country where rape has been quite consciously used as a weapon of
:07:31. > :07:33.division and a weapon of war. In religious conflict, in caste
:07:34. > :07:41.conflict. And where you have the state itself implicated in many
:07:42. > :07:45.cases. Police, of course, have been criticised over this horrific latest
:07:46. > :07:52.rape and hanging, and that if anything is to be done by virtue of
:07:53. > :07:55.what we saw in 2012 and this, it is a kind of re-education of the
:07:56. > :08:00.police, and that clearly hasn't happened. There are people trying to
:08:01. > :08:05.conduct change in rounds of various police forces but, no, it is
:08:06. > :08:10.endemic, and the problem is, it comes from the top. I don't think
:08:11. > :08:15.one can blame simply the individual policemen. You have been campaigning
:08:16. > :08:20.against sex or violence and rape for many, many years, not just in
:08:21. > :08:24.India, but also in Britain. And I wonder if you are despondent or if
:08:25. > :08:28.you can see something which might lead to change? I think I can't
:08:29. > :08:31.afford to be despondent. I think things are very bad and I don't
:08:32. > :08:38.actually think they are going to get worse because rape is simply a sign,
:08:39. > :08:42.one sign, of a society that is increasingly being brutalised, and
:08:43. > :08:45.if society in general is being brutalised them rape will go on
:08:46. > :08:50.happening and we have a very long history of it. Rape happens across
:08:51. > :08:58.different religious communities and then it has happened repeatedly in
:08:59. > :09:04.massacre after massacre in India. In every single year since
:09:05. > :09:10.independence. So we have a brutal history. And a very brutal present.
:09:11. > :09:13.Gita Sahgal, thank you very much for joining us.
:09:14. > :09:16.If the Conservatives could have planned the electoral calendar,
:09:17. > :09:18.the last thing they would have wanted after UKIP's performance
:09:19. > :09:21.in the European elections would have been a by-election caused
:09:22. > :09:24.by the disgrace and resignation of the incumbent Tory MP.
:09:25. > :09:27.But next Thursday, in the East Midlands seat of Newark,
:09:28. > :09:28.where Patrick Mercer had a 16,000 majority,
:09:29. > :09:34.We sent Stephen Smith to this historic Civil War site to see how
:09:35. > :09:48.the parties are lining up for battle. Four centuries ago,
:09:49. > :09:52.the parties are lining up old stones of Newark Castle ran to
:09:53. > :09:58.the sounds of musket and Pike, as the old order wobbled on its axis.
:09:59. > :10:04.At least one illustrious toff had the old order wobbled on its axis.
:10:05. > :10:07.has his -- had had his nose bloodied here in the past. Charles
:10:08. > :10:10.has his -- had had his nose bloodied surrendered the tower to a people's
:10:11. > :10:14.army during the Civil War and it was never the same again. Could the same
:10:15. > :10:28.fate be about to befall David Cameron? Now UKIP is mustering its
:10:29. > :10:32.still keep -- it's Roman in a bid to take Newark from the Tories.
:10:33. > :10:35.still keep -- it's Roman in a bid to say the party harks back to some
:10:36. > :10:40.mythical England that never really was. I wonder when UKIP feels
:10:41. > :10:46.Britain was last at its best? How far would you to turn the clock
:10:47. > :10:50.back? What an question! Nobody is turning the clock back. We're
:10:51. > :10:54.looking at the future of Great Britain as a nation connected with
:10:55. > :11:02.the world, not an offshore province in a nation called Europe. You seem
:11:03. > :11:09.to have a down on gay marriage, immigration, of course. If you look
:11:10. > :11:16.at the MEPs elected last week, they include more than a quarter as
:11:17. > :11:21.women, and Asian-Muslim and also an openly gay UKIP MEP from Scotland.
:11:22. > :11:25.These are Conservative Party balloons. Bright, pretty baubles are
:11:26. > :11:29.a speciality of the Tory balloons. Bright, pretty baubles are
:11:30. > :11:34.who is a director of a well-known London auction house. You don't feel
:11:35. > :11:41.you are a slightly rarefied object, with all due respect to being here?
:11:42. > :11:44.As a career politician? I think most people here respond to having
:11:45. > :11:48.someone who is a bit younger, has some energy, wants to get things
:11:49. > :11:52.done but has some experience before going into politics. What I hope I
:11:53. > :11:55.have proved in the last six months is genuine care for the area. I've
:11:56. > :12:00.moved here with my family and spent a lot of time... But the UKIP Khai
:12:01. > :12:12.has been here all his life, hasn't the? -- UKIP guy? Well, I can't
:12:13. > :12:16.think of anything he has achieved in the last four years. Once again, the
:12:17. > :12:20.big guns have been wheeled out in Newark. The grandees of the major
:12:21. > :12:23.parties have been here in recent days, reeling from the explosion of
:12:24. > :12:27.UKIP showing at the European elections. So are the locals
:12:28. > :12:34.suitably impressed by all this action? These are the dungeons at
:12:35. > :12:38.Newark Castle. He would go so far as to say they would like to see
:12:39. > :12:44.politicians incarcerated here. -- few would go. It is difficult to
:12:45. > :12:50.find much love for them. How do you feel about voting in general? Do you
:12:51. > :12:54.want the truth? I don't know. I think it's a waste of time. I'd end
:12:55. > :13:02.really bother with it. I never ready have done. Do you ever vote here?
:13:03. > :13:10.I'm not voting. Why not? I don't want to. Do you generally? No. I do
:13:11. > :13:12.get it, I don't vote. They kick and scream if we don't get our word
:13:13. > :13:21.across. If not, how can we moan? scream if we don't get our word
:13:22. > :13:24.won't find scream if we don't get our word
:13:25. > :13:29.turn in Newark market. But if the bloom is well and truly off party
:13:30. > :13:35.politics, as some believe, how are the candidates responding? Labour
:13:36. > :13:43.won the seat as recently as 97. But all the attraction seems to be with
:13:44. > :13:47.UKIP. Look, this is normally a safe seat for David Cameron so I am sure
:13:48. > :13:51.this is giving him a huge headache. But people feel let down that their
:13:52. > :13:55.energy bills are up and some people voted Lib Dem in 2010 and now let
:13:56. > :14:00.down because they support a tax cut for millionaires and tuition fees.
:14:01. > :14:09.And people are saying, I'm the only truly local candidate in this race.
:14:10. > :14:15.I couldn't see your leader's face on the leaflet there. Is he a liability
:14:16. > :14:20.view? No. This is all about local issues and campaigns and talking
:14:21. > :14:23.about what we have done across the constituency. Nick Clegg has been a
:14:24. > :14:27.brilliant leader for us and we have achieved an awful lot with him
:14:28. > :14:34.leading the party in government and I hope he will stay as our leader
:14:35. > :14:38.for years to come. Some here are striving to get to Westminster.
:14:39. > :14:41.Others streamed their George Osborne's runaway cat, happy to have
:14:42. > :14:46.as little as possible to do with the place.
:14:47. > :14:49.And this is the full list of candidates that are contesting
:14:50. > :15:05.any in other parts of the United Kingdom but there is now evidence of
:15:06. > :15:11.a disturbing further dimension. Stormont politician Anna Lo is the
:15:12. > :15:14.UK's only parliamentarian of Chinese origin and was the first vice-chair
:15:15. > :15:21.of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities. But now she says
:15:22. > :15:25.she's had enough of racist abuse by loyalists and sectarianism and is
:15:26. > :15:28.getting out of Northern Irish politics and perhaps Northern
:15:29. > :15:32.Ireland itself, her home for more than 30 years. She joins us now.
:15:33. > :15:40.Somebody who went to Northern Ireland at the height of The
:15:41. > :15:46.Troubles, and lived there through all The Troubles, you say you feel
:15:47. > :15:55.vulnerable and even scared. So why? Well, we certainly have seen an
:15:56. > :16:02.increase of racist attacks on ethnic minorities in recent months. I was
:16:03. > :16:06.on a - I was very, very angry when the First Minister of Northern
:16:07. > :16:15.Ireland, head of our Government, coming out to support a Past wor who
:16:16. > :16:20.had made very -- Pastor who had made very racist, sweeping negative
:16:21. > :16:28.comments on a Muslim community and so I was very angry and I was very
:16:29. > :16:32.concerned for people in ethnic minority communities and there may
:16:33. > :16:36.be further increase in racism in Northern Ireland. But what's
:16:37. > :16:47.happened to you personally, have you felt abuse? Yes, I certainly have
:16:48. > :16:52.experienced threats. I have experienced abuse, online abuse and
:16:53. > :16:57.also a recent incident in a shopping centre. You were chased? Yes. And
:16:58. > :17:04.are you sure it is only coming from loyalists, I gather that's what you
:17:05. > :17:10.are saying? Well, it's difficult to know, but the majority of the online
:17:11. > :17:21.abuse would appear to be from loyalists in reaction to our party
:17:22. > :17:28.stance on the flags issue and my comments calling for the union flags
:17:29. > :17:35.to be taken down from lamp-posts and to have paramilitary murals painted
:17:36. > :17:39.before the start of the Giro d'Italia which took place in
:17:40. > :17:42.Northern Ireland and I got a backlash from loyalist communities.
:17:43. > :17:51.Do you feel that Northern Ireland is your home? Northern Ireland is very
:17:52. > :17:57.much my home. As you said, I came there in 1974, at the height of The
:17:58. > :18:04.Troubles. I loved the place, I love the people and I worked in the
:18:05. > :18:11.voluntary sector, in social services and in politics now for seven years.
:18:12. > :18:14.I gather you spoke to Martin McGuinness on the phone,
:18:15. > :18:18.I gather you spoke to Martin you talk about? He was sympathetic
:18:19. > :18:24.and wanted to come and see me after the executive committee meeting,
:18:25. > :18:29.afternoon but unfortunately I had to afternoon but unfortunately I had to
:18:30. > :18:32.be back to my constituency office but we had a good chat on the phone.
:18:33. > :18:40.He but we had a good chat on the phone.
:18:41. > :18:50.anything that would perintad you but we had a good chat on the phone.
:18:51. > :18:53.overwhelming show of for for you, particularly what you
:18:54. > :18:58.overwhelming show of for for you, week, would you reconsider leaving
:18:59. > :19:03.Northern Ireland? I am absolutely heartened and really grateful and
:19:04. > :19:10.appreciate the thousands of messages from people of Northern Ireland. And
:19:11. > :19:16.the two rallies organised by people from the public and also NGOs
:19:17. > :19:18.the two rallies organised by people really has restored my faith in the
:19:19. > :19:22.good people of Northern Ireland. I really has restored my faith in the
:19:23. > :19:26.know we have a very small minority of people
:19:27. > :19:28.know we have a very small minority you stay in Northern Ireland, do
:19:29. > :19:29.know we have a very small minority think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you
:19:30. > :19:32.very much. think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you
:19:33. > :19:35.It might be the depressing nature think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you
:19:36. > :19:39.adverse commentary think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you
:19:40. > :19:47.just the grubby newsprint but whatever it is,
:19:48. > :19:50.in British newspapers. If this was said about you, would
:19:51. > :19:55.you even If this was said about you, would
:19:56. > :19:58.an interview with a website Ed Miliband
:19:59. > :20:01.an interview with a website Ed much British news. You get a lot of
:20:02. > :20:05.advice in the newspapers of what much British news. You get a lot of
:20:06. > :20:09.should do. It's much more important to follow your own path. Instead,
:20:10. > :20:16.should do. It's much more important his favourite reading material is
:20:17. > :20:20.the American online news compendum Real Clear Politics. Is that a good
:20:21. > :20:25.idea for a man who wants to be British Prime Minister? MrsThatcher
:20:26. > :20:30.couldn't find much time for the papers. Newsnight asked the
:20:31. > :20:35.Government's two leaders what they read and we can exclusively reveal:
:20:36. > :20:39.Nick Clegg reads a range of newspapers and frequently watches
:20:40. > :20:42.news output across a range of platforms. He reads a novel at the
:20:43. > :21:08.end of the day before going to bed. Sir Harold Evans has edited the
:21:09. > :21:13.Sunday Times and The Times. Elinor Good sman a freelance journalist and
:21:14. > :21:20.former political editor of Channel 4 and Karl Cannon is the Washington
:21:21. > :21:25.Bureau Chief of Real Clear Politics. Is Ed Miliband right to ignore
:21:26. > :21:29.British newspapers? Well, I understand why he has revolted by
:21:30. > :21:33.some of the attacks on him which - but I am surprised for a Labour man
:21:34. > :21:38.wishing to take the bread out of the mouths of starving hacks. I mean, is
:21:39. > :21:47.there no sympathy left for the working classes who carry a pen? On
:21:48. > :21:53.a more serious point... Seriously. It's a grave deficiency, the curious
:21:54. > :21:57.thing is I am an admirer of the web, my wife started The Daily Beast, you
:21:58. > :22:03.have to know that some websites are not reliable. They may flatter
:22:04. > :22:08.MrMiliband you with don't flatter the concept of integrity. The actual
:22:09. > :22:12.buzzfeed website that got this interview, it's hard to tell on that
:22:13. > :22:18.site what's news and what is advertising. You have to be careful
:22:19. > :22:22.in dismissing newspapers. I have to say not always are newspapers
:22:23. > :22:27.accurate. But it's understandable that Ed Miliband may not want to be
:22:28. > :22:32.drawn in to, for example, adverse comment, even from perhaps
:22:33. > :22:36.commentators that he admires. I can quite understand why he doesn't want
:22:37. > :22:41.to read the papers every day and perhaps why aides don't want them to
:22:42. > :22:45.see them in - he would be so depressed, look at Nick Clegg, I
:22:46. > :22:48.mean, he says he does read the papers, God knows how he can manage
:22:49. > :22:54.it. He would choke over his breakfast. We have recent surveys
:22:55. > :22:56.which show that 73% of adults still read a daily newspaper each day,
:22:57. > :23:00.isn't there a danger that Ed Miliband is out of touch with the
:23:01. > :23:04.majority of the voters, voters he badly needs? An awful lot of
:23:05. > :23:07.floating voters don't read the papers which is one of the problems
:23:08. > :23:12.politicians have in communicating with them. Obviously this is a
:23:13. > :23:16.danger that he may be bounced in some way out of a TV studio, what's
:23:17. > :23:23.your about what One Direction were up to a cab or whatever. The serious
:23:24. > :23:29.danger is that politicians do need the minuteae of the coverage every
:23:30. > :23:36.day, as Tony Blair admit, become obsessed with tomorrow's headlines
:23:37. > :23:41.and micoro-manage. The serious danger is at the moment for Clegg is
:23:42. > :23:45.just being demoralised and for Miliband too. Imagine seeing
:23:46. > :23:50.yourself eating a bacon buttie like that. You must be flattered that Ed
:23:51. > :23:55.Miliband says you are the go-to website at Real Clear Politics but
:23:56. > :23:59.it's extraordinary, I look at your website and there is a tiny amount
:24:00. > :24:08.of British political news. It's all American news. Well, he spent a
:24:09. > :24:12.couple of years in Boston as a kid and we - there is real clear sports
:24:13. > :24:19.and energy, I wonder if he is going to the site to find out how the
:24:20. > :24:24.Boston Red Sox did. In seriousness, if you want a good report op
:24:25. > :24:28.American politics, we have our own coverage. It's a good place to get a
:24:29. > :24:34.report. As a British politician, it's probably not enough for you.
:24:35. > :24:40.Especially a man who is only a year to the next election. Do you think
:24:41. > :24:44.that there is a change in the way - are newspapers more brutal, less
:24:45. > :24:58.considered, is there more to concern politicians, is the debate more
:24:59. > :25:06.base? I think New York's got a problem. We may have lost New York.
:25:07. > :25:12.We are taking it as read as if Miliband doesn't really read the
:25:13. > :25:19.papers. He himself admits that he is given a digest. After all, he was
:25:20. > :25:22.speaking on this news station, I think politicians always want to
:25:23. > :25:26.give the impression they don't read the newspapers. John Major did the
:25:27. > :25:29.same. To suggest that you read the papers every day, every headline, it
:25:30. > :25:36.implies a certain weakness, that you are about to be bossed around by
:25:37. > :25:41.them. Seriously I don't think he completely ignores what's going On
:25:42. > :25:45.Our Way On Our Way -- on, on the British agenda. What do you think Ed
:25:46. > :25:52.Miliband is missing in terms of his political direction and development
:25:53. > :25:56.by not reading the newspapers? Well, I think you never know, who know
:25:57. > :26:01.what is a newspaper's going to turn up. I was thinking as you were
:26:02. > :26:06.talking of various fantastic stories that emerged in the newspaper with
:26:07. > :26:09.the depth to do them properly and photographs, etc. At the same time,
:26:10. > :26:15.there is no doubt about it, newspapers in print are in serious
:26:16. > :26:18.decline. But you have to never underrate what a newspaper may turn
:26:19. > :26:23.up when you have really good reporters on the job and what
:26:24. > :26:27.surprises me somewhat about Ed Miliband, although I totally
:26:28. > :26:32.symphathise with his revulsion f you want to know what people are
:26:33. > :26:35.thinking, even with about ten million newspaper readers, you need
:26:36. > :26:42.to Joe what undercurrents are emerging through the newspapers --
:26:43. > :26:45.you need to know. It would be inconceivable for earn American
:26:46. > :26:51.President to say they didn't look at the Chicago Times or the was wassen
:26:52. > :26:56.to -- Boston Globe, it would be inconceivable for them to admit
:26:57. > :27:01.that? No, actually George W Bush gave an interview to a respected
:27:02. > :27:06.journalist at ABC and then went to Fox news and said he didn't read
:27:07. > :27:12.newspapers, I was kind of astonishing, liberal critics said
:27:13. > :27:17.see, he is dumb and admits it. I had dinner with President Bush at the
:27:18. > :27:20.White House, I was President of an association and I asked him, I said
:27:21. > :27:24.what is this, you don't read newspapers? He said, well, I kind of
:27:25. > :27:29.read newspapers but I don't read the columnists, the opinion columnists.
:27:30. > :27:34.Then Laura Bush overheard us and piped up and she said, he does too
:27:35. > :27:38.read the newspapers. I wish he would quit saying that. I said - I said,
:27:39. > :27:46.MrsBush, the President does read newspapers? She said, he brings them
:27:47. > :27:50.into bed every morning. I would take a grain of salt with it that Ed
:27:51. > :27:55.Miliband never really reads newspapers. It would be
:27:56. > :27:59.inconceivable an American President would cite a British website as his
:28:00. > :28:09.main go-to for political information? It's a very good
:28:10. > :28:13.website. An unusual for an American President to cite, or American
:28:14. > :28:23.candidate for presidency to cite a British political website as his
:28:24. > :28:30.go-to for information. The problem about saying that's your go-to
:28:31. > :28:33.website t may seem cool in sort of northern intellectual circles around
:28:34. > :28:37.Hampstead or wherever as such still exists but it's not exactly making
:28:38. > :28:42.him one of the people. You can just look at Twitter and things today and
:28:43. > :28:48.you can see and the aggrieved tone of some of the British newspapers
:28:49. > :28:52.suggesting this reinforces the idea that Miliband is out of touch. Thank
:28:53. > :28:57.you very much. We try not to pander to politicians on Newsnight but
:28:58. > :29:01.tonight for Ed Miliband's delectation we have decided to
:29:02. > :29:11.include the online digital content of the papers, The Huffington Post,
:29:12. > :29:17.UK first. The Culture Secretary to review all aspects of the BBC,
:29:18. > :29:28.including the licence fee. Buzzfeed, problems everyone in northern call
:29:29. > :29:31.-- in Cornwall can understand. And Real Clear Politics.
:29:32. > :29:36.Well, time was when spelling bees were all the rage, in America they
:29:37. > :29:42.still are. Fr the first time since 1962 the final of the annual Scripps
:29:43. > :29:45.National Spelling Behas been tied between two contestants. We thought
:29:46. > :29:50.you might like an opportunity to play along at at home. Here is the
:29:51. > :30:03.word that gave Ansun Sujoe his joint victory: Feuilleton. Good night and
:30:04. > :30:15.good luck. Any pronounceations? Feuilleton.
:30:16. > :30:24.Can you please repeat the word? Sure. Feuilleton. No more questions.
:30:25. > :30:27.Get the letters out there. OK. Whatever.
:30:28. > :30:40.LAUGHTER However you say it, just spell it.
:30:41. > :30:52.Correct. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
:30:53. > :31:19.Co-champions for weekend looks mostly fine across the
:31:20. > :31:23.vast majority of the UK, avoiding the rain. This is how Saturday
:31:24. > :31:28.looks. Some cloud around and the odd shower down the spine of England and
:31:29. > :31:33.Wales but most places are avoiding these. Northern Ireland looking OK.
:31:34. > :31:37.Scotland having spells of sunshine. Any showers will be very isolated
:31:38. > :31:41.indeed with temperatures inland responding to the sunshine nicely.
:31:42. > :31:45.Some cooling sea breezes on the coast. The odd shower popping up
:31:46. > :31:50.over the Pennines and the Midlands, but these will be fairly isolated.
:31:51. > :32:00.Reasonable spells of sunshine across the south-east with temperatures a
:32:01. > :32:01.degree or two higher than they have been. Over the western coast