:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight - the rival groups campaigning for Britain to leave
:00:07. > :00:14.We'll ask the chair of Labour Leave why they want to leave Vote Leave.
:00:15. > :00:18.You're making a terrible snake. My guess, nobody wants this, we're
:00:19. > :00:24.supposed to be professionals. This is a victory that
:00:25. > :00:28.cannot be denied. Julian Assange thinks he's been
:00:29. > :00:32.vindicated by today's UN opinion. We'll ask one of its authors what
:00:33. > :00:38.arbitrary detention really means. Also tonight - the rise
:00:39. > :00:40.and rise of Marco Rubio. Tea Party candidate,
:00:41. > :00:47.conservative, or the man who could unite the Republican
:00:48. > :00:49.party of America? We're on the trail in
:00:50. > :00:53.Miami, his home town. And in tonight's Artsnight -
:00:54. > :00:56.a look at the power of masks. I'm the conduit
:00:57. > :01:01.for Nina's true self. It would take an optimist
:01:02. > :01:20.of Pollyannaish proportions to describe the reception here this
:01:21. > :01:23.week for David Cameron's EU renegotiation as anything
:01:24. > :01:25.better than mixed. The Danish Prime Minister likes it,
:01:26. > :01:29.though, and today pledged his full support for the so-called
:01:30. > :01:31.brake on benefits his UK There has, however, been arguably
:01:32. > :01:38.even better news for Mr Cameron today from the most unlikely
:01:39. > :01:42.of sources: the competing and increasingly conflicting
:01:43. > :01:45.campaigns to leave the European Newsnight's Chris Cook has been
:01:46. > :01:50.trying to make sense of a day that's seen more comings and goings
:01:51. > :02:09.than a Eurostar terminal. You don't need proof when you have
:02:10. > :02:15.instinct. It's at the final scene from Reservoir dogs, that is what
:02:16. > :02:18.lead member for one of the groups campaigning to leave the EU said
:02:19. > :02:24.tonight. The Eurosceptics have had a good week, but they are locked in
:02:25. > :02:42.office politics. Why? No need for this.
:02:43. > :02:44.by Lord Lawson, the former Tory Chancellor.
:02:45. > :02:46.Then, there is Leave.EU, a separate campaign backed
:02:47. > :02:48.by Aaron Banks, a prominent Ukip donor.
:02:49. > :02:50.He also supports Grassroots Out, a separate campaigning organisation
:02:51. > :02:52.which has support from Tory MPs and one Labour MP.
:02:53. > :02:54.And they are fighting between them for something big.
:02:55. > :02:58.The Electoral Commission double donate one campaign group as the
:02:59. > :03:02.official voice of leaving and it gets higher spending limit and the
:03:03. > :03:06.right to a television broadcast and probably funded mailshot, so to get
:03:07. > :03:09.picked, each campaign is trying to show off that their support base is
:03:10. > :03:10.a broader representation of the Eurosceptic movement than the
:03:11. > :03:12.others. So it matters that Labour Leave,
:03:13. > :03:16.which is designed to be a vessel to build support for Brexit from
:03:17. > :03:19.among members of the Labour Party, seems to be drifting
:03:20. > :03:34.from its affiliation to Vote Leave Vote Leave strikes a different tone
:03:35. > :03:39.to the other campaigns, it talks about science and the cost of the
:03:40. > :03:45.EU. The others, closer to Ukip, are stronger on immigration. So there
:03:46. > :03:47.are differences of opinion between those campaign groups.
:03:48. > :03:52.In an internal e-mail sent to Vote Leave staff early this week,
:03:53. > :03:55.the chair of the organisation, John Mills, said...
:03:56. > :03:58.The bottom line is that Labour Leave are fed up with the way
:03:59. > :04:01.that they have been treated by Vote Leave and the intransigent
:04:02. > :04:06.and insensitive, from their perspective, policies it proceed.
:04:07. > :04:09.Their abrasive Campaign Director, Dominic Cummings, was criticised
:04:10. > :04:14.Dominic, what on earth are you doing?
:04:15. > :04:18.Generating more and more ill-feeling like this entirely unnecessarily.
:04:19. > :04:29.I thought you had promised to stop doing this sort of thing.
:04:30. > :04:39.The result is politics as scripted by Abbot and Castella. The chair of
:04:40. > :04:43.Labour Leave says they should vote for Vote Leave but John Mills says
:04:44. > :04:50.Labour Leave should stay as part of Vote Leave. The result is, if Labour
:04:51. > :04:53.Leave stays affiliated to Vote Leave, the leaders of Labour Leave
:04:54. > :05:00.will probably leave Labour Leave because they want Labour Leave to
:05:01. > :05:03.leave Vote Leave. Anyway, the bad news perhaps for these grassroots
:05:04. > :05:07.activists meeting tonight is that Vote Leave are still the favourite
:05:08. > :05:14.for designation but the big weakness is among Labour and Ukip Brexit fans
:05:15. > :05:15.so if Kate Hoey has taken Vote Leave out of Vote Leave, that is an
:05:16. > :05:17.important blow. Joining me now from Salford
:05:18. > :05:29.is the Labour MP Kate Hoey. Are you still in Labour Leave or
:05:30. > :05:34.Vote Leave or both or neither? It all sounds very amusing but it is a
:05:35. > :05:38.very serious thing because I have been to a huge meeting tonight of
:05:39. > :05:43.grassroots people from all over this area who just want to work together
:05:44. > :05:46.to get out of the EU and Labour Leave has had difficulties within
:05:47. > :05:51.Vote Leave, the staff were not happy about the way they were treated and
:05:52. > :05:54.really it is more about the kind of campaigning, we want to get out
:05:55. > :05:58.there and get on with it whereas a lot of time is spent clearly by Vote
:05:59. > :06:03.Leave on wanting to get designation. Designation will come at some stage
:06:04. > :06:06.but we have all got to work together, there is a lot of people
:06:07. > :06:11.involved in campaigning against the EU long before the referendum was
:06:12. > :06:14.announced and they are there to play their part and I think what the
:06:15. > :06:19.messages, the message we have been getting in Labour Leave for the last
:06:20. > :06:22.week or two from supporters across the country is everybody should be
:06:23. > :06:27.getting together and also they were delighted that finally the voices
:06:28. > :06:34.are coming out of Labour saying that we're not all into being part of the
:06:35. > :06:39.EU. Yes, the one thing everyone can agree on is that you are keen to
:06:40. > :06:43.leave the EU. That was not really what I was trying to establish, is
:06:44. > :06:49.Labour Leave still part of Vote Leave? I'm still very much part of
:06:50. > :06:59.Labour Leave, there was one of the founders. Is Labour Leave... Let me
:07:00. > :07:03.finish, a number of MPs all involved with grassroots -- Grassroots Out,
:07:04. > :07:06.this is a movement bringing people together across the country and we
:07:07. > :07:11.saw that in Kettering last week and these people in the public, who
:07:12. > :07:16.finally have the vote, not MPs or the elitists of this country, they
:07:17. > :07:20.are the people who want us to have one campaign and work together and
:07:21. > :07:24.by leaving out becoming independent and Labour Leave and those of us who
:07:25. > :07:29.are active in that we'll be working with independently but with people
:07:30. > :07:34.across the country in grassroots campaigns. John Mills has been a
:07:35. > :07:39.wonderful supporter of getting out of the EU for many years and he may
:07:40. > :07:43.well decide, because he has been involved with Vote Leave as a donor
:07:44. > :07:47.and very business for Britain, he might decide to stay with Vote Leave
:07:48. > :07:53.and that is fine, we have not fallen out, we just want to make sure that
:07:54. > :07:58.we and our members... Understood, you're keen for everyone. I think I
:07:59. > :08:05.understand. I would appreciate it is complicated. People really care
:08:06. > :08:10.about designation on the doorsteps. I was going to ask you about that.
:08:11. > :08:15.Asking everybody to put together and you are affiliated to the Grassroots
:08:16. > :08:21.Out... We are not affiliated to any thing. Bankrolled by Aaron Banks,
:08:22. > :08:24.who described develop the top of your previous organisation as being
:08:25. > :08:29.two of the most unpleasant people he ever had the misfortune to meet.
:08:30. > :08:35.Sorry, two of the nastiest individuals. That is not sound like
:08:36. > :08:40.it is dedicated to pulling together. Vote Leave has the only Ukip MP on
:08:41. > :08:46.the board so they actually have the Ukip MP on their board. Ukip is
:08:47. > :08:52.going to play a very big part in whatever campaign gets designation.
:08:53. > :08:57.Aaron Banks today said... Who bankrolls Grassroots Out. And
:08:58. > :09:02.Leave.EU? You are wrong, there are five big donors supporting
:09:03. > :09:06.Grassroots Out and we're getting even more and after today more
:09:07. > :09:10.people will be prepared to support a campaign that is going to bring in
:09:11. > :09:15.everybody that I would say that everybody has their views about
:09:16. > :09:17.different people and I am not genuinely interested in
:09:18. > :09:23.personalities, about who like Sue or who has done what, I am interested
:09:24. > :09:26.in getting a mobilisation of people across the country and the people
:09:27. > :09:35.who are best able to do that at the moment are grassroots people. Which
:09:36. > :09:40.is Grassroots Out? Yes. I was speaking at the rally tonight. The
:09:41. > :09:46.mist circling, does Labour Leave still exist? Yes, we are a minority
:09:47. > :09:53.of MPs, were without doubt a minority of MPs but we have become
:09:54. > :09:59.very active, strong MPs like Kelvin Hopkins, we have many people who
:10:00. > :10:02.voted for Labour in the past and who would run away from Labour because
:10:03. > :10:06.we never were prepared to take on the issue of the EU and support a
:10:07. > :10:11.referendum who are now beginning to say, actually, if we have people in
:10:12. > :10:15.the Labour Party who say that there is a difference and they want to
:10:16. > :10:19.come out, they will look again at the Labour Party. I hope that the
:10:20. > :10:24.leadership realises that if you want to really genuinely engage with all
:10:25. > :10:29.of those people that we have lost over the years, we should be
:10:30. > :10:32.allowing, as I know the Jeremy Corbyn has no objection to, people
:10:33. > :10:37.like myself campaigning strongly to leave the EU, it has to be the
:10:38. > :10:43.people of this country deciding that and they will. This is it, no more
:10:44. > :10:47.shuffling around? I am not shuffling anywhere, I want to get around and
:10:48. > :10:53.talk to people and persuade them. Glad to hear it. Many thanks indeed.
:10:54. > :10:56.Jeremy Corbyn tonight faces calls to halt the allegedly widespread
:10:57. > :10:58.practice of Muslim men preventing Muslim women from becoming
:10:59. > :11:03.The accusation has been made by the Muslim Women's Network UK
:11:04. > :11:13.and a letter sent by them to the Labour leader this evening
:11:14. > :11:15.describes "systematic misogyny displayed by significant numbers
:11:16. > :11:19.In this exclusive report, Newsnight's Katie Razzall reveals
:11:20. > :11:20.accusations of sabotage, smear campaigns and slander borne,
:11:21. > :11:24.it is claimed, of a cultural mindset imported from India,
:11:25. > :11:42.No prizes for spotting who was missing in these pictures are mainly
:11:43. > :11:43.Muslim Labour Party gatherings. In this recent tweet from a Birmingham
:11:44. > :11:53.MP, he writes... If Muslim women are not in the
:11:54. > :11:57.picture, is this a coincidence? Or is there something more troubling
:11:58. > :12:02.going on? People were turning up at the family home to humiliate my mum
:12:03. > :12:06.-- my mother. The cars they did not have my father 's consent, I had to
:12:07. > :12:14.step down. Labour officials must be allowing this to happen, this is not
:12:15. > :12:17.happening in a vacuum. In parts of the UK with large Muslim
:12:18. > :12:22.populations, where voting Labour is traditionally a given, locals often
:12:23. > :12:25.choose Muslim men to represent them that there is mounting evidence of
:12:26. > :12:29.Muslim women being denied the chance to face the electorate. Their route
:12:30. > :12:34.into politics is blocked by Labour men from their own community and the
:12:35. > :12:39.women are fighting back. Newsletters in a letter that has just gone to
:12:40. > :12:43.the Labour leader from Muslim -- from Muslim Women's Network UK,
:12:44. > :12:47.demanding an enquiry into what it calls systematic misogyny in the
:12:48. > :12:54.selection process. These men have a cultural mindset, they come from
:12:55. > :12:59.places like India and Pakistan and Bangladesh and operate this rather
:13:00. > :13:03.Male kinship system and they do not like women being empowered the cause
:13:04. > :13:08.then we're going to then challenge the status quo, we're going to
:13:09. > :13:13.challenge the misogyny, we're going to challenge the fact that our
:13:14. > :13:20.rights are being denied in our own community. I very enjoyed being a
:13:21. > :13:27.councillor, and meeting people. This woman is one of the dozen women use
:13:28. > :13:30.that has spoken to with claims of sabotage as they try to become
:13:31. > :13:34.Labour councillors. This activist who grew up in Birmingham told me
:13:35. > :13:39.the local parties male Muslim members told me a woman would never
:13:40. > :13:45.be elected sure. Other time I was aware of a smear campaign, they said
:13:46. > :13:49.I was having an affair with one of the existing councillors, who was
:13:50. > :13:54.still a councillor in the area. So I was quite upset about that and taken
:13:55. > :13:58.back that people would say that without any evidence. People were
:13:59. > :14:03.turning up at my family home and is trying to intimidate my mother. We
:14:04. > :14:08.want to stop her daughter from pursuing becoming a councillor. Do
:14:09. > :14:12.you know who they were? It would be members of the Labour Party. My
:14:13. > :14:19.mother saw them. She said they were members of the Labour Party. Muslim
:14:20. > :14:23.men. Newsnight has spoken to other Muslim women who claim to have been
:14:24. > :14:28.blocked as councillors. One said that they spread the standard about
:14:29. > :14:33.me being a shut, that is where they get here. Another search of a stool
:14:34. > :14:36.that Islam and feminism are not compatible and another different
:14:37. > :14:40.gay-rights says this is not Islamic. Many talk of being criticised for
:14:41. > :14:46.being too westernised and behaving like a white woman. The Muslim --
:14:47. > :14:50.the Muslim Women's Network UK accuses the national party of being
:14:51. > :14:55.complicit. Muslim women are telling us that we have been complaining of
:14:56. > :15:00.this, but we do not get listened to and we have examples of where we
:15:01. > :15:06.have tried to circumvent local councillors to sidestep them and
:15:07. > :15:10.tried to go to more senior politicians and they say we do not
:15:11. > :15:14.get listened to. Nobody comes back to us. But they are obviously quite
:15:15. > :15:20.scared to come out with those e-mails because of the backlash they
:15:21. > :15:26.might face. Hello. Do you live in the local ward? These kind of
:15:27. > :15:33.allegations are very hard to prove. It is often one person's word
:15:34. > :15:36.against another. This woman is an advocate for local woman is its in
:15:37. > :15:40.her hometown of Peterborough. A Labour Party member for years, she
:15:41. > :15:45.was the first choice to stand for a particular council seat in 2007. She
:15:46. > :15:49.claims from her father refused to allow that, the local Labour branch
:15:50. > :15:54.respected his wishes. I didn't think it has to do with religion, because
:15:55. > :15:58.religion empowers women and it gives them their rights, it is a culture
:15:59. > :16:01.because they didn't have my father 's consent and support and I had to
:16:02. > :16:09.step down. I was pressured into that. How old were you? 31, married
:16:10. > :16:13.with two children. We have spoken to senior Muslim men within Peterboro
:16:14. > :16:17.Labour who say she decided to step down if own accord due to family and
:16:18. > :16:20.not Labour Party pressure. She is now standing for the Conservatives,
:16:21. > :16:30.cleaning that is the only way she can represent women in the area. All
:16:31. > :16:34.political parties want more women and minority candidates into
:16:35. > :16:39.politics and the Labour Party has a better record than others. It
:16:40. > :16:43.introduced positive action including all women short lists to get more
:16:44. > :16:47.women into local government. But this sitting councillor in Leicester
:16:48. > :16:51.told me there are ways in some parts of the city with high Muslim
:16:52. > :16:54.populations that her local party deliberately gets around the
:16:55. > :17:00.national party's guidance to select women. They would say there will not
:17:01. > :17:09.add a great candidates among the women. Was that true? No, they were
:17:10. > :17:12.brilliant candidates among the women. By the Met them and had
:17:13. > :17:23.discussions with them, they were brilliant. They were barred. By the
:17:24. > :17:29.membership. Of course Muslim women are getting through. On Birmingham
:17:30. > :17:33.Council, over 20 also Muslim councillors, three women. On the
:17:34. > :17:40.face of it the party has made real progress. We've come on in leaps and
:17:41. > :17:43.bounds in Birmingham 's this 2007, it's nowhere near perfect, our
:17:44. > :17:49.chambers need to look like the communities they serve. How
:17:50. > :17:52.difficult has it been to persuade the membership in those areas to
:17:53. > :18:00.agree with you when it comes to women? I would not say we had 100%
:18:01. > :18:06.agreement. But by and large the leadership have been very
:18:07. > :18:10.supportive. But last year it did not seem that integration was going well
:18:11. > :18:14.in Birmingham when this picture was treated by a Birmingham MEP showing
:18:15. > :18:19.how man and woman were segregated. We found another post online for a
:18:20. > :18:24.rally of the year before. On both occasions what is described as a
:18:25. > :18:27.women's section was organised by one local councillor. It is the first
:18:28. > :18:33.time she has spoken publicly about it. It was not forced segregation.
:18:34. > :18:42.That would be inappropriate for anyone to do that. The post itself
:18:43. > :18:48.said that women, it said something like a councillor Khan is inviting
:18:49. > :18:55.women to attend. It said councillor Khan is organising a women's
:18:56. > :18:58.section. The reason was to try to encourage women to attend and not
:18:59. > :19:02.say that they would sit separately. If it was going to be segregated I
:19:03. > :19:07.would not be sitting on the platform with man. There would not be women
:19:08. > :19:14.speaking, being actively involved in doing speeches. You are saying that
:19:15. > :19:17.on the post-it said that you were organising a women's section and
:19:18. > :19:21.that did not mean that you were organising a section where women
:19:22. > :19:26.could sit. It did not mean that we were organising a section for women
:19:27. > :19:32.only to sit away from men. Even though that is what happened. That
:19:33. > :19:36.is how the women chose to sit. Labour councillors who told me that
:19:37. > :19:39.was the start of political engagement. Even with more women
:19:40. > :19:40.councillors will their female residents get the representation
:19:41. > :19:44.they deserve? The Labour Party has no record
:19:45. > :19:46.of complaints on behalf of any
:19:47. > :19:48.of the women in that film. The party told us its: "selection
:19:49. > :19:51.procedures include strong positive action procedures such
:19:52. > :19:53.as All-Women Shortlists and rules to ensure women are selected
:19:54. > :19:55.in winnable council seats. We have the best record of any party
:19:56. > :20:01.in selecting women and BAME candidates, and we will continue
:20:02. > :20:04.to do all that we can to make sure candidates are representative
:20:05. > :20:06.of the communities It was 'a victory of historic
:20:07. > :20:13.importance' according to Julian Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond,
:20:14. > :20:18.by contrast, described a UN working group's decision today
:20:19. > :20:21.that the WikiLeaks founder is being arbitrarily detained
:20:22. > :20:24.at the Ecuadorian Embasasy, where he claimed asylum in 2012,
:20:25. > :20:33.as 'frankly ridiculous'. It's hard to see how
:20:34. > :20:35.they could both be right, but is it also possible
:20:36. > :20:41.that they might both be wrong? Setondji Adjovi is a member
:20:42. > :20:43.of the five=person panel which delivered the decision
:20:44. > :20:52.and joins us now from Philadelphia. There are two words here, we cannot
:20:53. > :20:58.pick what the word arbitrarily means until we are clear on what detained
:20:59. > :21:01.means. Julian Assange arrived at the Ecuadorian assembly of his own full
:21:02. > :21:08.issue and could walk out at any time, how is he being detained? --
:21:09. > :21:13.of his own full issue. In the few of the working group, as it has been
:21:14. > :21:17.explained in the opinion, there is a continuity between the time that he
:21:18. > :21:25.was arrested in 2010 and spent ten days in detention and the time he
:21:26. > :21:29.was on bail under house arrest. That continuity led to when he was in the
:21:30. > :21:33.embassy and if he left there he would continue in the deprivation of
:21:34. > :21:38.liberty. That is why we consider that his stay in the amnesty is
:21:39. > :21:44.detention time. So the deprivation of liberty represented by what you
:21:45. > :21:47.describe as house arrest is a fairly normal implementation of British
:21:48. > :21:52.bail conditions. I use suggesting that everybody on bail in Britain
:21:53. > :21:57.required to remain at a certain address and present themselves to a
:21:58. > :22:06.police station is under house arrest? -- are you suggesting that?
:22:07. > :22:12.In our view, in this case, yes. What is the difference between this case
:22:13. > :22:17.and every other case on bail? We were not discussing every other
:22:18. > :22:23.case, we were discussing the Assange case and we considered it was a
:22:24. > :22:29.detention period, if you are under house arrest it is a time of
:22:30. > :22:37.detention... How can you describe it as house arrest if it is bail
:22:38. > :22:45.conditions? What you describe as house arrest was bail conditions.
:22:46. > :22:52.Are you hearing me? Loud and clear. How is bail house arrest? That is
:22:53. > :22:58.what we had in the facts presented to us. And that is what we
:22:59. > :23:02.concluded. The reason why he would face arrest and a return to bail
:23:03. > :23:06.conditions if he left the embassy was that Swedish prosecutors want to
:23:07. > :23:10.talk to him about an allegation of rape but has been brought against
:23:11. > :23:15.him. How does that play into your judgment, the fact that he would be
:23:16. > :23:17.deprived of his liberty because the authorities want to talk to him
:23:18. > :23:29.about the very real allegation of rape? How does that play in your
:23:30. > :23:34.understanding, that they can only talk to him when the arrest him? In
:23:35. > :23:38.five years of an investigation, why have they not been able to come to a
:23:39. > :23:46.conclusion as to whether he should be tried or not? Because he will not
:23:47. > :23:50.go to Sweden and when they tried to extradite him he sought asylum at
:23:51. > :23:56.the Ecuadorian Embassy. Normally an action taken to avoid persecution,
:23:57. > :24:02.not prosecution. What you might not want to understand here is the lack
:24:03. > :24:09.of due diligence in the work of the prosecution. That is what the
:24:10. > :24:12.working group is criticising. So it is a question of punctuality rather
:24:13. > :24:20.than legal principle? They should have moved quicker? Yes, it's a
:24:21. > :24:26.matter of timing. The working group has made it very clear in the
:24:27. > :24:29.opinion we issue that five years of preliminary investigation, without
:24:30. > :24:35.coming to a final conclusion, where he adjudged the individual or not,
:24:36. > :24:40.to move to a trial is too long. How can they come to a final conclusion
:24:41. > :24:48.if they cannot interview the only suspect? If the only way of
:24:49. > :24:52.interviewing the only suspect is arresting him and taking him to your
:24:53. > :24:59.country. Can he not be interviewed anywhere else, in your view? He has
:25:00. > :25:02.offered to be interviewed here by Swedish authorities, yet when they
:25:03. > :25:09.acquiesced, you changed his mind. Were you not aware of that? -- he
:25:10. > :25:13.changed his mind. I'm not going to discuss those details because you
:25:14. > :25:18.and I are not part of this process. The fact we had before us showed
:25:19. > :25:22.that the Swedish prosecutor did not want to interview him in the
:25:23. > :25:23.embassy. And even the Swedish judge criticised the Swedish prosecutor
:25:24. > :25:29.for this. Thank you very much. It normally takes failed drugs tests
:25:30. > :25:31.and multiple medal strippings for a person who came third
:25:32. > :25:35.in a contest to end up being hailed This, though, seems to be
:25:36. > :25:38.the outwardly remarkable achievement of Florida senator Marco Rubio
:25:39. > :25:41.in his bid to become the Republican Beaten by both Ted Cruz
:25:42. > :25:46.and Donald Trump in their first electoral test - the Iowa caucus -
:25:47. > :25:49.the son of Cuban immigrants is the man many Republicans now
:25:50. > :25:52.believe offers their best chance of getting back
:25:53. > :25:55.into the White House. Emily is on the campaign trail
:25:56. > :25:58.in Florida, a battleground so big that - as you'll remember
:25:59. > :26:01.from the Gore/Bush battle in 2000 - it can ultimately
:26:02. > :26:15.decide the Presidency. Miami, wrote the novelist Tom Wolfe,
:26:16. > :26:20.is a melting pot in which none of the stone smiled, they rattle
:26:21. > :26:24.around. But doesn't do it justice, they move with style, but it is true
:26:25. > :26:28.that the groups that make at the city often remain true to their
:26:29. > :26:37.constituent parts. None also perhaps than Cuban community. -- none more
:26:38. > :26:43.so. He's leading a salsa class in the neighbourhood called Little
:26:44. > :26:47.Havana. I have Cuban parents and I was born in Miami, first generation
:26:48. > :26:51.immigrant. Budget his story is when you will hear all over the city and
:26:52. > :26:56.it is the story of the senator that many Republicans now see as their
:26:57. > :27:00.best chance of the presidency. I want to thank the people who voted
:27:01. > :27:05.for me. You started in local politics, his rise to power swift,
:27:06. > :27:11.he's still the youngest candidate in the race. He has now overtaken the
:27:12. > :27:14.man who once captained him, another son of Florida and presidential
:27:15. > :27:20.candidate, Jeb Bush, brother of the more famous George. My campaign will
:27:21. > :27:25.be about the future of America, not about attacking anyone else on the
:27:26. > :27:30.stage. But the person who shaped his career more than anyone, this first
:27:31. > :27:36.medal, is Rebecca, now a commissioner in Dade County. He came
:27:37. > :27:40.to my door one September, introduced himself and said, are you the Maher,
:27:41. > :27:44.I would like to run for Commissioner and they said I had to come and see
:27:45. > :27:49.you. When he began responding to me, the reasons why he wanted to run, I
:27:50. > :27:55.stopped everything I was doing. And I thought, let's go in, let's drink
:27:56. > :27:59.Coffey and let's talk. She remains close friends with his mother and
:28:00. > :28:06.says his family were his core inspiration and his drive.
:28:07. > :28:18.For a well Michael Rubio's father worked here on the beaches of Miami,
:28:19. > :28:24.selling my non-deckchairs but much of his working life was spent in big
:28:25. > :28:27.hotels where he worked as a bartender. Michael Rubio used to
:28:28. > :28:30.joke that his father stood at the back of those large ballroom is so
:28:31. > :28:40.that his son would eventually stand at the front. His father died some
:28:41. > :28:45.years ago yet much of his family still live in West Miami, where he
:28:46. > :28:49.grew up. His nephew works on his campaign. That sense of family
:28:50. > :28:53.present in his speeches and also their immigrant past even if it was
:28:54. > :28:59.not quite as it seemed. His family came here from Cuba in the 1950s but
:29:00. > :29:04.after that the details get hazy. He has long maintained they fled
:29:05. > :29:08.commoners and Vidal Castro in 1959 until it emerged that they had
:29:09. > :29:14.arrived here several years earlier before Castro was in power. In other
:29:15. > :29:18.words they fled poverty under capitalism, economic migrants, not
:29:19. > :29:23.political ones. That becomes a more complicated story. Mariella, who
:29:24. > :29:27.left Cuba when she was seven, has known Marco for much of his life and
:29:28. > :29:32.grew up in that same neighbourhood. I would see him in the grocery store
:29:33. > :29:37.buying diapers and I would say, I did not know politicians went to the
:29:38. > :29:39.store! Gibbons, she says are politically ambitious because they
:29:40. > :29:49.have seen what happens when thing goes wrong. Kim Jong-un Cubans. We
:29:50. > :29:53.came here with nothing. Nobody gave us anything. But we succeeded and it
:29:54. > :29:59.is incredible that so many Cubans in America are so successful. They need
:30:00. > :30:02.to succeed and do something for the country because we already lost one,
:30:03. > :30:08.we don't want to lose another. Lunch Mike Ray Anthony was taught by Marco
:30:09. > :30:13.Rubio at Florida University until last spring. How does it feel when
:30:14. > :30:20.your professor turns up and says is going to run for president. Seeing
:30:21. > :30:23.this is incredible, seeing somebody like us aspiring to the highest
:30:24. > :30:30.office in the land, it's only in America. Outside the salsa club on a
:30:31. > :30:34.sultry night they slapped Domino's and beckoned us over. They seem less
:30:35. > :30:39.convinced that he really is one of them. He wants to cut relations with
:30:40. > :30:47.Cuba, says this man. It almost seems he is against Cubans. His friend at
:30:48. > :30:52.the other end agrees, she's not some pathetic to us at all, he is not
:30:53. > :30:58.really Cuban. Of course Miami is more than Little Habana and Florida
:30:59. > :31:03.is much more than Miami, the state divides into two demographics, the
:31:04. > :31:07.Latina, female, voters, and the older conservative white vote in
:31:08. > :31:12.other areas. Yet the hope for Republicans is that Marco Rubio
:31:13. > :31:16.could unite the two. And it is impossible to overstate the
:31:17. > :31:22.importance of Florida in a presidential election. It is of
:31:23. > :31:25.course fiercely contested, 29 electoral college votes, the points
:31:26. > :31:29.system by which the Americans choose a president, it is the largest
:31:30. > :31:34.battle ground state. Many will remember the fight between George
:31:35. > :31:38.Bush and Al Gore and the hanging chads in 2000. Yet few will have
:31:39. > :31:46.realised that after several days George Bush won by it a hairs
:31:47. > :31:52.breadth. Hair's-breadth doesn't even cover it. Clearly a tough state to
:31:53. > :31:58.crack. Make no mistake, Marco Rubio will not be a panacea for many of
:31:59. > :32:01.the Democrats who find him hawkish on foreign affairs and deeply
:32:02. > :32:06.conservative on foreign issues. His pitch sounds identical to that of
:32:07. > :32:11.Ted Cruz yet he sells itself as one that the Democrats fear, the only
:32:12. > :32:15.one who could beat Clinton. Nine months to go, a presidential
:32:16. > :32:21.pregnancy had, and there are plenty of us still trying to figure out its
:32:22. > :32:26.rhythm, another son of Miami, rapper, puts it better than I could.
:32:27. > :32:27.To still be free from Pitiful, he may not be Mr Wright but he is Mr
:32:28. > :32:30.right now. Comedian Nina Conti looks
:32:31. > :32:34.at the power of masks which includes a look at how
:32:35. > :32:37.David Bowie used masks Also, we should say this programme
:32:38. > :32:47.does contain strong language.