:00:07. > :00:22.Just before one o'clock today, Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen breath,
:00:23. > :00:24.was attacked near Birstall. I am now sadly informing issue has died from
:00:25. > :00:26.her injuries. The murder of a sitting MP
:00:27. > :00:28.in her constituency near Leeds, the first in this country
:00:29. > :00:31.for over two decades. Jo Cox had not been in parliament
:00:32. > :00:34.for long, but was a good example of a how accessible
:00:35. > :00:36.and down to earth MPs can be. across from the library
:00:37. > :00:41.where Jo Cox was murdered and a little over a mile
:00:42. > :00:44.from where she was born. We'll have reaction from the local
:00:45. > :00:47.area and I'll talking to the MP Angela Smith - one of Jo Cox's
:00:48. > :00:51.close friends and colleagues, And we'll ask if it's time to give
:00:52. > :00:57.MPs more security and more respect, Also tonight, we look at child
:00:58. > :01:04.marriage in Bangladesh, where one in two girls are married
:01:05. > :01:22.before reaching adulthood. It's not a day for arguing,
:01:23. > :01:24.campaigning, and definitely not a day for
:01:25. > :01:27.insulting political opponents. Politicians put differences aside
:01:28. > :01:30.today in light of the fatal attack The first murder of a sitting MP
:01:31. > :01:36.since the death of Ian Gow It left Westminster -
:01:37. > :01:41.and much of the country - in shock. Yes, politics can be brutal,
:01:42. > :01:44.but we pride ourselves on keeping it largely free
:01:45. > :01:48.of personal violence. And indeed, we pride ourselves
:01:49. > :01:51.on our ability to prevent the violent or mentally
:01:52. > :01:53.ill obtaining guns. Jo Cox was a popular MP,
:01:54. > :01:56.one who had worked for Oxfam before A perfect example to remind us that
:01:57. > :02:01.whatever bile is thrown at the political class,
:02:02. > :02:03.many are down to earth, Far from cutting themselves off
:02:04. > :02:10.from the population at large, indeed, that is an issue that
:02:11. > :02:15.will perhaps be examined now. Before we go to Yorkshire,
:02:16. > :02:29.here's Nick Watt on Jo Cox herself. And whilst we celebrate our
:02:30. > :02:33.diversity, the thing that surprises me time and again as I travel around
:02:34. > :02:38.the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in
:02:39. > :02:41.common than that which divides us. British politics was brought to a
:02:42. > :02:47.sudden standstill today when one of the shining lights of the next
:02:48. > :02:53.generation was extinguished. Jo was full of love, love for her family,
:02:54. > :02:57.love for her constituency, love for her job, she loved being an MP, and
:02:58. > :03:04.love for the issues she campaigned so tirelessly on and for that love
:03:05. > :03:07.to be destroyed in a mindless attack, a premeditated attack,
:03:08. > :03:11.motivated it appears by hate, is absolutely sick. In a brief
:03:12. > :03:15.statement this afternoon, police confirmed that Jo Cox, who had only
:03:16. > :03:20.been the Labour MP for Batley and Spen for just over a year, had
:03:21. > :03:26.become the first MP to be murdered since the IRA blew up Ian Gow in a
:03:27. > :03:33.car bomb attack in 1990. Just before 1pm today, Jo Cox, MP for Batley and
:03:34. > :03:39.Spen, was attacked in market Street, Birstall. I am now very sad to
:03:40. > :03:45.report that she has died from her injuries. The Lord is my shepherd, I
:03:46. > :03:50.shall not once... Not since the death of the late Labour leader John
:03:51. > :03:54.Smith in 1994 has there been such a genuine outpouring of grief amongst
:03:55. > :04:00.MPs across the spectrum at the loss of one of their own. The whole of
:04:01. > :04:04.the Labour family are devastated tonight. Jo Cox has been killed
:04:05. > :04:10.doing her duty, doing her work, as a constituency MP. She is somebody who
:04:11. > :04:15.dedicated her life to human rights and to justice and she leaves behind
:04:16. > :04:22.two young children, two young children who will never grow up to
:04:23. > :04:27.see them again. They can be proud of what she was, they can be proud of
:04:28. > :04:32.what she did and they can be very proud of everything that she stood
:04:33. > :04:35.for. She was a bright star, no doubt about it. A star for her
:04:36. > :04:40.constituents, a star in Parliament and right across the House.
:04:41. > :04:43.Campaigning was suspended in the EU referendum and George Osborne ripped
:04:44. > :04:48.up his annual Mansion house speech to remove any mention of Europe.
:04:49. > :04:54.Instead, he paid a moving tribute to Jo Cox. Jo fought to help the
:04:55. > :04:59.refugees from the Syrian civil war and she gave a voice to those who
:05:00. > :05:03.are the leader whose cry for help she felt was not being heard -- to
:05:04. > :05:07.those whose cry the help she felt was not being heard. The changed
:05:08. > :05:12.attitudes and I noted contributed to a change in policy. She will never
:05:13. > :05:17.know how many lives she helped transform. Today, doing their job,
:05:18. > :05:22.she senselessly lost her own life. As a former head of policy at Oxfam,
:05:23. > :05:25.Jo Cox was admired by colleagues as a passionate campaigner, but she was
:05:26. > :05:29.not afraid to challenge her own party, as she did last autumn when
:05:30. > :05:36.she said there was a strong case for military intervention in Syria. Jo
:05:37. > :05:41.was not afraid of speaking out and standing up for what she believed
:05:42. > :05:45.in. She was a strong campaigner. This evening, her husband Brendan
:05:46. > :05:49.Cox hailed his wife's work, but reminded the country, in a
:05:50. > :05:52.statement, that while she would be remembered as a great campaigner,
:05:53. > :06:13.her first thoughts were always with their children. He said...
:06:14. > :06:21.The dignity of the response to Jo Cox's death stands in stark contrast
:06:22. > :06:25.to the intense and sometimes ugly whirlwind of political battles.
:06:26. > :06:30.Perhaps the pause for reflection will lead to a kind of politics. --
:06:31. > :06:32.a kinder politics. Well, the murder occurred
:06:33. > :06:34.in broad daylight, on the streets of Birstall,
:06:35. > :06:37.outside the town's library. There are lots of questions
:06:38. > :06:39.about the mental health and potential far right
:06:40. > :06:41.links of the suspect. Jo Cox wanted to be as accessible
:06:42. > :06:47.as possible to her constituents many of whom she would have
:06:48. > :06:52.known since childhood. Today, she came to this library
:06:53. > :06:54.to her monthly surgery, it would have been advertised,
:06:55. > :06:58.no appointment was necessary. Here she would have felt
:06:59. > :07:01.in no danger as she dealt There is a huge sense of disbelief
:07:02. > :07:10.and profound sadness John Sweeney has been speaking
:07:11. > :07:13.to people in the town. And has the story of how the day
:07:14. > :07:21.unfolded. Tonight, a brilliant star of British
:07:22. > :07:28.politics lies dead. Instead of life and argument, Jo Cox is commemorated
:07:29. > :07:32.by candlelight. How could it be that anyone would want to murder this
:07:33. > :07:37.mother of two? The prime suspect is Tommy Mair. No one we have spoken to
:07:38. > :07:43.ever suspected he might be capable of murder. What is so extraordinary
:07:44. > :07:46.about the murder of Jo Cox is that everything has happened very
:07:47. > :07:51.locally. The killing itself took place about a mile from here, but
:07:52. > :07:55.this is the home of the suspect behind me. As you can see, there are
:07:56. > :07:58.a couple of police officers and behind them, some forensic officers
:07:59. > :08:03.who are obviously going through the House. I have spoken to some of the
:08:04. > :08:08.neighbours, they knew this man, the suspect. They say he is quiet,
:08:09. > :08:14.ordinary, no trouble. One of them said she saw him walk past her house
:08:15. > :08:17.this morning. Nobody here can understand how one of their
:08:18. > :08:24.community could have done this thing. Jo, the Labour MP for Batley
:08:25. > :08:28.and Spen, was talking to constituents in the local library
:08:29. > :08:35.when the assault began around 1pm today. I heard a loud noise behind
:08:36. > :08:39.me, it sounded like a car backfiring. Obviously became aware
:08:40. > :08:43.it was a gunshot. As I turned around to look at what the noise was, I
:08:44. > :08:49.heard a woman screaming and a guy was bent over the woman, I could see
:08:50. > :08:52.her leg sticking out, it looks like a gun in his hand. He proceeded
:08:53. > :08:57.again to shoot her on the floor. She was crawling away. Two men were
:08:58. > :09:03.wrestling the man. He then wielded the knife. The killing of Jo Cox
:09:04. > :09:07.occurred as far as we can tie with foresight. Immediately behind the
:09:08. > :09:12.library was where Jo was talking to her constituents. A man assaulted
:09:13. > :09:15.her. She ran down the hill and there was a kind of running battle. Her
:09:16. > :09:23.shoes and handbags were taken away by the forensic people a bit ago.
:09:24. > :09:28.Then she turns right into a car park and that is where she -- he stabs,
:09:29. > :09:33.that is when she goes down. The words I heard him say it were
:09:34. > :09:37."Britain first" or "Put Britain first", but Britain first was what
:09:38. > :09:42.he was saying, he said it at least twice. Jo Cox was certified dead at
:09:43. > :09:47.1:48pm. Steven Lees has known the suspect Tommy Mair since childhood.
:09:48. > :09:51.Sometimes in the shop I could see his hands were red raw and maybe his
:09:52. > :09:54.face and his forehead was a bit red and his brother used to tell me when
:09:55. > :09:58.he had been gardening or cooking or something like that, he would attack
:09:59. > :10:06.his hands and his face and his head with a nail brush, to clean himself.
:10:07. > :10:12.So much that he hurt himself? He would rub the skin off. Where was
:10:13. > :10:16.his politics, did he talk politics to you? He would never talk
:10:17. > :10:19.politics. I never once thought he was into politics. He didn't seem
:10:20. > :10:25.the type to be into politics. I never heard him express any opinions
:10:26. > :10:30.about politics. So a loner, odd, peculiar, but not to the people who
:10:31. > :10:36.knew him a killer. Over the coming days, we will learn more about the
:10:37. > :10:41.killing of Jo Cox. Only one thing is absolutely clear tonight. Our
:10:42. > :10:45.country has lost a brave and singular politician.
:10:46. > :10:52.Well I am joined the now here in Birstall by one of Jo Cox's good
:10:53. > :10:57.friends and colleagues, Angela Smith. I'm so sorry for your loss
:10:58. > :11:04.tonight. Hard-working, popular, how would you describe her? Jo was just
:11:05. > :11:09.a very warm, lively, engaging personality and everybody who met
:11:10. > :11:13.her just became friends with her almost instantly. You know, it was
:11:14. > :11:18.never hard to get to know Jo, never difficult. She always had plenty to
:11:19. > :11:22.say. Some politicians now are criticised the coming straight into
:11:23. > :11:25.politics, she had a huge career, policy director at Oxfam, work on
:11:26. > :11:31.the White ribbon campaign and maternal deaths. Absolutely and her
:11:32. > :11:34.personality actually made her very effective campaign and I have spoken
:11:35. > :11:47.to many people today who actually would say that Jo was at the
:11:48. > :11:56.forefront of the battle to get the 0.7% of GDP aunts aid spending. She
:11:57. > :12:00.went out to dar four and helped this country build a consensus around
:12:01. > :12:03.this, she fought for women's writes, for women refugees who were raped
:12:04. > :12:07.and assaulted and all of her life, she has done that and that is what
:12:08. > :12:12.makes today so tragic in many ways. We have lost Jo as a human being but
:12:13. > :12:16.we have also lost a fantastic campaigner. Also, what I was saying
:12:17. > :12:21.at the very beginning, reading about her, she was so determined to be
:12:22. > :12:25.accessible. So people would walk into her surgery, she didn't want to
:12:26. > :12:29.feel she was apart from the people she had grown up with. That is right
:12:30. > :12:33.and I think most of us want to work that way. I do appointments in my
:12:34. > :12:36.surgeries. We all want to be as open as possible and we are not going to
:12:37. > :12:42.close the doors to our constituents. We all do the job the way we feel
:12:43. > :12:47.most comfortable with. But do you feel that MPs, in recent years, are
:12:48. > :12:52.more vulnerable and people feel they can have a go at them, have an issue
:12:53. > :12:56.with them? You get a lot of that online, you get a lot of e-mails and
:12:57. > :13:00.stuff on social media in that vein, but actually when you meet most
:13:01. > :13:05.people face-to-face, they are absolutely fine and one thing I am
:13:06. > :13:09.sure about, I am not going to have my professional life or my personal
:13:10. > :13:14.life circumscribed by events like this. And nor would she have wanted
:13:15. > :13:18.that. In a moving tribute, her husband wrote about the love she
:13:19. > :13:21.would want to be shown to her children, but he also said she would
:13:22. > :13:28.want us to unite against the hatred that killed her, eight does not have
:13:29. > :13:32.creed, race or religion -- hate. Indeed. Someone may have killed Jo
:13:33. > :13:35.Cox today but they haven't killed what she stands for, it is
:13:36. > :13:40.impossible, because we will absolutely carry on working and
:13:41. > :13:45.fighting for what Jo Cox stood for. She stood for human rights,
:13:46. > :13:49.equality, international justice. Nobody can kill that. Do you think
:13:50. > :13:54.that, had she lived, she would have been possible prime ministerial
:13:55. > :13:58.material? Jo would have achieved great things and hip she was here
:13:59. > :14:05.today, she would say, "Me, Prime Minister? Come on!" She was the type
:14:06. > :14:09.of person who just wanted to get on with everybody and achieve what she
:14:10. > :14:12.believed in and fight for the principles he believed in. What
:14:13. > :14:17.impact you think this will have on politics immediately? I think it has
:14:18. > :14:22.changed politics forever. There is talk of a recall of Parliament and I
:14:23. > :14:29.would welcome that. I recall soon. Yes, and I would welcome that
:14:30. > :14:32.because I would like to pay tribute to Jo and for her colleagues to
:14:33. > :14:36.reconvene and use Parliamentary democracy to demonstrate that
:14:37. > :14:40.democracy will not be beaten by this. We will continue to represent
:14:41. > :14:43.our constituents in Parliament and that is the best tribute possible
:14:44. > :14:46.that we could pay to Jo. Angela Smith, thank you very much.
:14:47. > :14:50.You can't read too much into a ghastly attack like this,
:14:51. > :14:53.at least not on the information we have at the moment.
:14:54. > :14:56.Mental health could be the primary issue, or malign political purpose.
:14:57. > :14:58.Sometimes, frankly, there's a blurred line between the two.
:14:59. > :15:02.But do we owe our MPs more security for the risks they take, and more
:15:03. > :15:05.The anger and unpleasantness that characterises some of the discourse
:15:06. > :15:13.But does it stoke up unhealthy feelings of hate that can spin out
:15:14. > :15:19.Our political editor Nick Watt is with me.
:15:20. > :15:30.Let's start with, you spoke to some other friends of Jo Cox this
:15:31. > :15:35.afternoon, proof that emotions are running high. I spoke to four of her
:15:36. > :15:41.closest parliamentary friends, people who have known her for 20
:15:42. > :15:44.years and worked with her. In a very moving joint interview they paid
:15:45. > :15:49.tribute to her as a great human rights campaigner but also somebody
:15:50. > :15:57.who exuded humanity and great human warmth. To be honest I think what
:15:58. > :16:02.stood out for me was Jo's amazing energy, she always had a smile, a
:16:03. > :16:05.new idea. We would call her the Energizer Bunny, she wanted to fight
:16:06. > :16:11.and do things and make things happen, she wouldn't take no for an
:16:12. > :16:18.answer and that defined her. She was working hard every day. She was
:16:19. > :16:26.tireless in the things she cared about. She was also such good fun to
:16:27. > :16:29.be around. She was an amazing MP but we've lost a really good friend
:16:30. > :16:35.today and I can't believe she's gone. I can't imagine what Brendan
:16:36. > :16:42.and the family are going through now. Walking through and her not
:16:43. > :16:50.being on the benches. It doesn't seem real. How good, somebody who
:16:51. > :16:55.was full of demanding energy, full of life, who frankly set an example
:16:56. > :17:00.for us all, how can that person be gone? It would be so common to see
:17:01. > :17:05.Jo arriving in the nick of time for a vote because she had been cycling
:17:06. > :17:09.like a maniac, in her cycling gear, she would always be there for her
:17:10. > :17:16.kids, always taking them in, getting the evening meal. I can't imagine
:17:17. > :17:23.what the family are going through. It is such a massive loss. And it is
:17:24. > :17:26.what she would have done next, she had only been here for a year and
:17:27. > :17:35.she had done so much, especially refugees and money for Syria. A
:17:36. > :17:39.conviction politician as well as being a fully paid-up member of the
:17:40. > :17:44.human race, representing the best of what politics should be about and
:17:45. > :17:47.what humanity is about. It isn't just us who have lost someone, it is
:17:48. > :17:51.those who are most vulnerable in the world who have lost their most woman
:17:52. > :17:59.double champion. That's what we've lost. We need to realise what we've
:18:00. > :18:01.lost, one of the gutsiest and most principled, intelligent, brilliant
:18:02. > :18:06.women I've ever had the honour in my life to know. All we care tonight is
:18:07. > :18:13.how on earth we carry on without Jo by our side because she kept us
:18:14. > :18:18.going. Jo was brave, she endured, a lot of us get difficult times on
:18:19. > :18:21.social media, but she stood up because she was doing what she
:18:22. > :18:25.believed in and that was testament to her, the difference she was
:18:26. > :18:32.prepared to make. We talked about it on Tuesday night, as Brendan, her
:18:33. > :18:39.husband said in his statement, no regrets about anything she has done
:18:40. > :18:42.in her life. She woke up every day thinking about how she can change
:18:43. > :18:46.the world and she got stuck into it. That is the example we have to
:18:47. > :18:52.follow and it's that spirit we have to take and run with. There are
:18:53. > :18:56.people who are safe in the world because of Jo and that is what she
:18:57. > :19:02.stood for. She lived that every day and we have to keep fighting for
:19:03. > :19:06.what she believed in. Politicians as human beings. Nick, security, in the
:19:07. > :19:12.house, out in their constituencies, it has to be an issue now? Important
:19:13. > :19:17.to render that in the last 15 years, two MPs have been subject knife tax,
:19:18. > :19:26.Nigel Jones and Stephen Timms. -- knife attack. But in recent years,
:19:27. > :19:30.concerns have been raised by MPs in the light of these Syria vote and
:19:31. > :19:36.the attacks on them in MPs online and concerns are being expressed.
:19:37. > :19:38.One of the parliamentary democracy, the direct contact between MPs and
:19:39. > :19:44.constituents leave them very vulnerable. The parliamentary
:19:45. > :19:50.authorities have agreed to pay in recent months for security at MPs'
:19:51. > :19:53.homes and offices in their constituencies but there are real
:19:54. > :19:59.concerns that while Parliament is a fortress, the authorities there are
:20:00. > :20:03.not taking the potential threat in constituencies enough and there are
:20:04. > :20:06.concerns that perhaps the message isn't getting down to local police
:20:07. > :20:12.forces, who think that MPs are predicted in Parliament, not seeing
:20:13. > :20:15.that those MPs are still vulnerable once they are in their
:20:16. > :20:20.constituencies. What about the big political issue, the tone of our
:20:21. > :20:25.politics, the vitriol, the demonisation of them? The license
:20:26. > :20:29.people feel, really, to be very nasty about MPs in their language
:20:30. > :20:34.and on social media. Has this crystallised thoughts? Important to
:20:35. > :20:37.say that we don't yet know the motive for the murder but clearly
:20:38. > :20:41.what is happening now is that British politics is taking a step
:20:42. > :20:46.back. There is a pause for breath and one thing people are looking at
:20:47. > :20:54.is the very aggressive tone on social media. I was talking to a
:20:55. > :20:57.very senior Labour MP, a lady MP who said that MPs are very open,
:20:58. > :21:02.advertising their movements on social media, and she said that she
:21:03. > :21:06.feared that the aggressive personalised tone on social media
:21:07. > :21:07.really is having a very negative effect on policy and individual
:21:08. > :21:10.safety. Well, on that point about vitriol
:21:11. > :21:12.in politics and social media, it has become an issue today,
:21:13. > :21:15.even without us knowing exactly Let's just play a clip from Labour
:21:16. > :21:20.MP for Bermondsey, Neil Coyle. from the news about Jo Cox,
:21:21. > :21:28.but he drew a line from hate-filled social media, through to rhetoric
:21:29. > :21:31.about migrants and what he sees as the demonising of foreigners,
:21:32. > :21:34.right through to components of the Leave campaign
:21:35. > :21:35.in the referendum. He's not the only one
:21:36. > :21:38.to have done that today. I think that the kind of nonsense
:21:39. > :21:48.they inspire online from anonymous accounts and actually the core
:21:49. > :21:55.content of the posts accounts and actually the core
:21:56. > :21:57.content of the poster that they launched today,
:21:58. > :22:07.look at what they are putting out. I think they are a very dangerous...
:22:08. > :22:08.They risk inspiring extremist elements on the hard right in this
:22:09. > :22:10.country. Labour parliamentary
:22:11. > :22:13.candidate in 2015 Anne McElvoy, senior
:22:14. > :22:16.editor at The Economist, and Jonathan Freedland,
:22:17. > :22:26.columnist at The Guardian. Thank you for joining us. Is a very
:22:27. > :22:30.sad day. Let's start with the most pointed of all the criticisms, that
:22:31. > :22:36.somehow it is elements of the political campaigns we are seeing at
:22:37. > :22:39.the moment which have been most vicious and spreading viciousness.
:22:40. > :22:43.Jonathan, do you agree that there is a read-through from that into
:22:44. > :22:47.political violence? It predates what's going on now, the Brexit
:22:48. > :22:52.debate, it is the political culture. We don't know what is in the mind of
:22:53. > :22:57.this individual but the idea that the debate has got more course has
:22:58. > :23:04.been undeniable. Expenses was a watershed moment where suddenly it
:23:05. > :23:11.was casual and routine to depict MPs as venal and grubby and entirely
:23:12. > :23:15.self interested and that has congee into an accepted received wisdom,
:23:16. > :23:23.all the same as each other, you can't trust them, all liars -- has
:23:24. > :23:26.congee. If you have that poison injected into the bloodstream
:23:27. > :23:36.eventually you will have consequences. -- congealed. In the
:23:37. > :23:41.Guardian tomorrow, Polly Toynbee has written an article, very much on the
:23:42. > :23:46.same lines, that they there is possibility, not for the attack, but
:23:47. > :23:53.for the mood, for the inflammatory language, overt racism, a noxious
:23:54. > :23:58.brew with a dangerous anti-MP stereotype. Do you believe that? I
:23:59. > :24:09.haven't read the column, so I don't want to comment in any detail. It
:24:10. > :24:14.depends who the they is. Step back and look at the tone of our
:24:15. > :24:18.politics, but I think it is a bit tendentious, that leap into the
:24:19. > :24:22.permissive environment where everything you don't like then
:24:23. > :24:28.becomes in some way the slippery slope to this most terrible murder.
:24:29. > :24:32.Even if we get to know a bit more about the man and his political
:24:33. > :24:36.affiliations, by an unlikely to be wholesome and that has gone over
:24:37. > :24:39.many years, many decades and different democracies have had to
:24:40. > :24:43.confront it on the far left and the far right. Anything that goes
:24:44. > :24:48.outside the democratic norm and feeds violence is wrong. I feel we
:24:49. > :24:53.should stand up for that as the democratic principle. One
:24:54. > :24:58.interesting counterfactual, I covered Germany and east German
:24:59. > :25:03.unification, in 1990, a man who is now the very eminent Finance
:25:04. > :25:07.minister was attacked, brutally attacked, he has been in a
:25:08. > :25:12.wheelchair ever since. That was in the mood of 1990, very het up,
:25:13. > :25:16.reunification. The political discourse in Germany was by our
:25:17. > :25:25.standards very gentle, almost herbivorous. It came out of the time
:25:26. > :25:30.but what is the link we are drawing? I wonder if we are trying to draw
:25:31. > :25:34.too much, trying to imbue this with too much meaning. It could be an
:25:35. > :25:40.isolated man with severe mental health problems. It's nothing to do
:25:41. > :25:45.with politics, with the Brexit debate, I wonder if that's the way
:25:46. > :25:51.to look at it? It might be but we have suspended campaigning and we
:25:52. > :25:54.have an opportunity to decide, once we start campaigning again, whether
:25:55. > :25:57.we will continue in the same way because let's be honest, there are
:25:58. > :26:02.patriots on both sides of the debate. We need to have a more
:26:03. > :26:08.respectful kind of debate. I was on the bridge, Westminster Bridge being
:26:09. > :26:14.the rather unedifying flotilla fight in the river. Yes, it makes for some
:26:15. > :26:16.fun, for some entertaining sketches, but with those kind of
:26:17. > :26:22.gesticulations between two millionaires, let's be honest, I
:26:23. > :26:28.waved at Jo and Brendan and their children in their rib from the
:26:29. > :26:33.bridge while I saw people shouting traitor at each other. That kind of
:26:34. > :26:36.language is the only bad for politicians but it is bad for each
:26:37. > :26:41.other and the national conversation. We need to be better than that. A
:26:42. > :26:45.lot of people saying that this is spirited politics and the more you
:26:46. > :26:49.give voice to people's anger and emotion and passion, the less likely
:26:50. > :26:53.you are to have hideous outbursts. You can do that, you can have
:26:54. > :27:01.spirited politics without resulting Dyer resorting to the language of
:27:02. > :27:04.toxicity. -- without resorting. MPs on social media have been on the end
:27:05. > :27:09.of death threats and rape threats, you can think of that as sealed off
:27:10. > :27:13.in the online world, but sometimes there are real-world consequences.
:27:14. > :27:18.You are right to want to separate the day, which we don't moan about,
:27:19. > :27:27.we can only mourn about it -- which we don't know about. We should think
:27:28. > :27:31.about it. The interesting example from Germany, the thing about
:27:32. > :27:35.demonising a category of people involved in politics. I covered the
:27:36. > :27:40.aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in America in 1995, there
:27:41. > :27:45.was a building of federal bureaucrats and 167 of them were
:27:46. > :27:52.killed. The lead up to that, the phrase federal bureaucrats became
:27:53. > :27:56.almost an insult. Talk radio work demonising them as if they were the
:27:57. > :27:59.source of America's problems. After Oklahoma City, people pulled back
:28:00. > :28:03.and thought, maybe we shouldn't talk about these people like that any
:28:04. > :28:08.more. Maybe we should think about how we talk about politics and
:28:09. > :28:13.public servants. In a rambunctious political culture where we allow
:28:14. > :28:17.liberalism, that is very much at stake here, we will never agree.
:28:18. > :28:22.Even you and I, we are closer than some of the people watching, to the
:28:23. > :28:25.left and to the right of us, there will be things where they will say
:28:26. > :28:29.that we have crossed the line and we have to stand up in a democracy for
:28:30. > :28:33.the right to offend as well as be offended. That's fine, but the
:28:34. > :28:38.reality is that politics and democracy is supposed to be an alter
:28:39. > :28:42.native to violence. What I'm worried about is starting to see a language
:28:43. > :28:47.in the national conversation which facilitates and allows violence to
:28:48. > :28:51.be legitimised. That's a problem. Whether it is the specifics of
:28:52. > :28:57.today. Overall, politicians and many other people who are doing good work
:28:58. > :29:00.like Jo did, she did it in refugee camps, people at food banks can find
:29:01. > :29:03.themselves in the face of histolytica because of the way that
:29:04. > :29:10.decisions are being made. That's not good enough. -- in the face of
:29:11. > :29:15.hostility. Can we talk about the security of MPs? Is it possible to
:29:16. > :29:22.have accessible MPs who are meeting their constituents, as available as
:29:23. > :29:26.Jo Cox was, and give them some help and security? I think it's going to
:29:27. > :29:29.be a very difficult trade-off. That sounds like a tough thing to say
:29:30. > :29:35.after such a promising young woman has been struck down but one of the
:29:36. > :29:40.things, having been to different countries and covering different
:29:41. > :29:43.politics, I would stand up for that slightly... Go to the
:29:44. > :29:47.constituencies, however grand they are in Westminster, the person has
:29:48. > :29:51.to use in a slightly grubby room and meet you manatee with a lot of
:29:52. > :29:58.problems, they don't always come in in the most polite form -- meet
:29:59. > :30:03.humanity. It comes with a risk but I think it is important. Of course,
:30:04. > :30:07.Nick what was important, talk to police forces and make sure that
:30:08. > :30:11.there are sensible caveats in place but the good thing is that this is
:30:12. > :30:17.not Russia or China, you can talk to your MP, if you are crossed, you can
:30:18. > :30:20.tell them so. I think that's right, the legacy should be that Jo
:30:21. > :30:24.achieved so much as a campaigner before she was elected. The thing we
:30:25. > :30:28.must remember is that she achieved things and we want to make sure that
:30:29. > :30:34.people like Jo can become politicians again and what I'm
:30:35. > :30:38.worried about is that if we have this national conversation, becoming
:30:39. > :30:39.so toxic, people like Jo will not stand as MPs in the future. Thank
:30:40. > :30:42.you for joining us. Every year around the world,
:30:43. > :30:48.15 million girls are forced to marry Bangladesh has one of the highest
:30:49. > :30:52.rates of child marriage where over half of girls marry
:30:53. > :30:54.before reaching adulthood. These girls often face sexual
:30:55. > :30:56.violence, dangerous childbirth The government in Bangladesh
:30:57. > :30:59.has pledged that within it'll eliminate the child marriage
:31:00. > :31:04.of girls under 15 years old. Farhana Haider has been
:31:05. > :31:22.to the capital Dhaka to meet girls on the outskirts of Bangladesh's
:31:23. > :31:29.capital city Dhaka said this slum, where girls have to grow up fast.
:31:30. > :32:04.TRANSLATION: Millions of girls here in Bangladesh
:32:05. > :32:10.face a similar story. In fact, One in Five girls are married by the
:32:11. > :32:13.time they reach their 15th birthday. All too often, they come from the
:32:14. > :32:20.poorest areas, where girls are seen as a burden.
:32:21. > :32:26.It is a patriarchal society, where a girl's reputation is everything.
:32:27. > :32:31.Unmarried young women face harassment simply walking down the
:32:32. > :32:33.street. So millions of girls are forced to marry before the legal age
:32:34. > :32:46.of 18 to preserve family honour. In the slum, 40,000 people are
:32:47. > :32:49.crammed onto a tiny plot of land. It is a city within a city, a
:32:50. > :32:56.self-governing community where marriage is determined not by law
:32:57. > :33:00.but by circumstances. In this maze of alleyways are one room tin
:33:01. > :33:05.shacks, where entire families live. Births, deaths and marriages happen
:33:06. > :33:16.here. For teenage girls living in this slum, life is tough. In the
:33:17. > :33:22.heart of the slum leaves 13-year-old Molika, with her mother.
:33:23. > :34:10.Molika is due to get married at the end of the week.
:34:11. > :34:15.It is a false sense of security. Once married, the problems faced by
:34:16. > :34:31.the girls often get worse. 16-year-old Sharmin was death by her
:34:32. > :34:36.husband last year when she was four months pregnant with her baby.
:34:37. > :35:01.Buried deep under the bed, Sharmin keeps her wedding clothes.
:35:02. > :35:08.These girls are married off because their families can't afford to keep
:35:09. > :35:12.them. Yet the reality is that once they are married, husbands start
:35:13. > :35:17.demanding dowries they simply can't afford. So they are abandoned.
:35:18. > :35:19.15-year-old Regina was married last year to a man 12 years older than
:35:20. > :35:36.her. The Bangladesh Government estimates
:35:37. > :35:43.that 87% of married women here face some form of physical or mental
:35:44. > :35:46.abuse. Regina's husband left her a few months into the marriage, so her
:35:47. > :36:00.father turned to the police for help.
:36:01. > :36:04.He says he had to pay the police ?60, which is more than his monthly
:36:05. > :36:27.income. Money and marriage go hand-in-hand
:36:28. > :36:47.here. 17-year-old Ustma was married two years ago.
:36:48. > :36:55.Ustma's husband left her after five months of marriage. But, like
:36:56. > :37:01.thousands of other girls here in the slum, work in garment factories is
:37:02. > :37:04.offering Jo at offering them independence. -- offering them
:37:05. > :38:13.independence. The forced marriage of young girls
:38:14. > :38:17.around the world will continue unless attitudes towards young women
:38:18. > :38:27.change and they are allowed to fulfil their potential.
:38:28. > :38:35.Let's take a quick look at the newspapers. The Times, they are all
:38:36. > :38:40.obviously leading on Jo Cox, the murdered MP had faced a string of
:38:41. > :38:43.security threats. Police were reviewing her protection, they say.
:38:44. > :38:50.The Guardian, she believed in a better world, she fought for it
:38:51. > :38:56.every day, the arrested man shouted "Britain first" according to
:38:57. > :39:00.witnesses. The Sun takes the personal angle, husband's moving
:39:01. > :39:06.tribute with a picture of the suspect on the front. The Daily
:39:07. > :39:08.Mail, devoted mother of two, dedicated public servant, a
:39:09. > :39:14.remarkable woman, what a tragic waste. And the Financial Times also
:39:15. > :39:19.leading on it, the killing of Jo Cox brings abrupt halt to a referendum
:39:20. > :39:23.-- the referendum campaign, which is suspended until Saturday. I love
:39:24. > :39:27.that a couple of the continental papers, French and German, and on
:39:28. > :39:32.their websites, they were leading on that story -- I looked at. Tonight,
:39:33. > :39:36.democracy was continuing and today was the tooting by-election and
:39:37. > :39:39.after the vote, the memorial to Jo Cox, they held a two minute silence
:39:40. > :39:45.in her memory. We leave you tonight with a section of that.