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Now that we have this suspect in custody, the investigation can | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
focus on whether this individual acted | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
alone and what his motivations may have been. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
The New York bombing suspect is caught after a shoot-out. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
He was originally from Afghanistan, and he's put Islam back | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
...change the minds of the voters about Trump or Clinton? | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Terror and the response to it has become acutely, quickly political. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
How will it affect this presidential race? | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
These attacks and many others were made possible because of our | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Also tonight: Therapeutic use exemptions. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Get to know the phrase, as we may hear a lot more | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
This sports scientist worries they're open to abuse | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And Brian Cox on science in an age of unenlightenment. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
There's something required of citizens, I think. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
And what's required is that they understand, as | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
What it means for science to offer a view, how to weigh that. | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
Many New Yorkers woke this morning to the sound of an emergency alert | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
The accompanying message told them to look out for a particular man | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
suspected of involvement in planting bombs yesterday | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
By lunchtime in New York, they had him. | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Thanks. Americans awoke this morning to an active manhunt after those | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
four Terror attempts over the course of the weekend. And by lunchtime | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
news of a shoot out and I suspect now in custody. That man was a | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
28-year-old Afghan born US citizen. His name is Ahmad Khan Rahami, and | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
police believe he may be critical in helping them piece together what | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
happened seven blocks from here in the Chelsea district of Manhattan | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
where, on Saturday night an IED exploded with 29 people injured. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
There were several other attempted explosions around New Jersey, too. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
And at this critical juncture in the electoral cycle, many are wondering | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
what terror and the response to it will do to the presidential race. We | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
heard from Donald Trump first thing this morning suggesting that the | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
police's hands could be tied by political correctness, and then | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
emerged Hillary Clinton. She tried to remind the American people of the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
part she played in the capture of Osama bin Laden and called on them | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
not to demonise an entire race or religion. So how will their rhetoric | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
affects the presidential race? Have a look at this report. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Three attempted terror attacks on the same day on US soil. An | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
explosion. Pipe bombs and pressure cookers. Crude devices and last | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
night they found several more stuffed into a backpack in a bin. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
The speculation from the Elizabeth police Department is that they were | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
not timed to go off, therefore whether they are being investigated | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
or followed that they were disposed of in a garbage can in a hasty | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
manner. This is a city on high alert, awaiting the arrival of world | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
leaders for a UN summit. And after a morning manhunt and shoot out, this | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
is the man being held in custody, Mr Rahami, an Afghan born US national | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
whose picture has been splashed across TV networks all morning. So | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
far nothing to be said with any certainty except this, that 15 weeks | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
before an election, it becomes political. We are going to have to | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
be tough, I think this is something that will happen perhaps more and | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
more over the country. You mean more terrorist strikes? Yeah, because we | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
are weak, our country has been weak, we are letting people in by the tens | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
of thousands, you've got to stop it. And from Clinton, this. We going | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
after the bad guys and we are going to get them, but we are not going to | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
go after an entire religion and give Isis exactly what it wants in order | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
for them to their position. The Manhattan device went off just as | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
the president was on his way here. His last speech to the Congressional | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Black Caucus board where he begged African-Americans to continue his | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
legacy by voting for her. Any threat to national-security can be a major | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Game Changers, and this at a time when the Clinton campaign no longer | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
seems so sure footed. The White House is just a mile or so up the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
road from here and over the course of the summer Hillary Clinton's path | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
to it looked clear. She was far enough ahead in crucial swing states | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
for the team to feel quite confident. Over the last week or so | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
polls have narrowed dramatically and now the team is wondering if they | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
have to change, too. Donna Brazil chairs the Democratic National | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
committee. Is she concerned about the current state of the race? Are | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
you worried about the polls narrow win? We knew all along that the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
polls would be tight going into the final spread to the campaign. But we | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
are very confident that we have a great campaign, extraordinary | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
leadership across the country, looking forward to the first debate | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and the countdown to election day. Does the fact the polls have | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
tightened me in the campaign will have to change, you will have to | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
change? We expect the polls to tighten. What happens in a | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
presidential year is that the American people decide at the last | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
minute. Some days they are with Hillary, some days they are not. At | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
guess what? Overall they are looking for the kind of leadership that will | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
lead this country forward. Outside the DC Beltway they are not social. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
He soccer mums are here to cheer, but sometimes their hearts aren't in | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
it. Kind of sad to think that we have two candidates that nobody can | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
really get their arms around. I think that they've both made | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
mistakes, and America is watching, and we are not stupid. A game in | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
many ways is Hillary's to lose. The changing demographics of America | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
mean Democrats have fundamental advantages in the electoral map with | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
more routes to win. Right now she needs them. | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
Clinton's campaign is understood to be quietly pessimistic | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
about both Ohio and Iowa, which Obama took twice. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Florida, the largest prize, will remain competitive | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
It is possible for her to lose the big three, they say, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
But she'll have to fight twice as hard for all | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
And of course finding electoral maths is one thing, finding | :07:11. | :07:24. | |
electoral viagra is quite another, particularly among this crowd, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
millennial 's, who bring idealism to eight backdrop of jaded politics. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
But perhaps Hillary's problem is less tangible, her campaign has | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
stamina but she lacks momentum. She does not energise the way Obama did | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
with his message of hope, or the way Donald Trump does with a message of | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
anger. Americans feel they have known have 25 years, and even | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
amongst some Democrats there is a sense of enthusiasm gap as they call | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
it. As Obama said at the weekend, hope is on the ballot, but fear is, | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
too. The remark may yet backfire. If terror moves centre stage at this | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
critical point of the cycle, just one week before the presidential | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
debates, Americans may be looking for reassurance in whatever form | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
that takes. And that's the point, really. These | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
attacks or attempted attacks, mercifully not fatal, but they have | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
reminded Americans of their vulnerability and make them question | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
who of those presidential choices would make them feel more secure. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Let's pull that apart with my guests. I just learned that Kurt | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Volker was a CIA analyst for many years. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
If I said that people are looking for the candidate that says | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
security, what would you say to that? I think people are scared and | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
the rhetoric we are hearing from some of the candidates, especially | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
Trump is meant to play on that paranoia. As far as a person who | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
spells security, it is very vague. That could go either way. They could | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
be looking for somebody who is strong and a leader with experience, | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
and Hillary Clinton is certainly trying to draw on that and build on | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
that assumption. But they could be looking for somebody who is from the | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
outside of the foreign policy establishment, and going to shake | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
things up, and that is what Donald Trump is counting on. It was very | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
noticeable on Saturday night that Donald Trump was first up, | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
immediately called it, there is a bomb in New York. Hillary Clinton | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
emerged later and urged caution and the need for patience. She seems to | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
have changed slightly, as he pushed her into a place where she has to | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
come out sounding a little bit stronger? She does. There are two | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
competing narratives going on. The Donald Trump narrative is that the | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
administration, the US government, the Obama Clinton foreign policy, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
they don't get it, they are not keeping us safe, the terrorists are | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
out there. So that's one narrative. On the other side you have this | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
narrative, dynamic spearing is, I've been in the Senate, I'm in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
situation room, I understand these issues, trying to project a serious, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
confident image, as Hillary Clinton is trying to do. The problem is that | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
the public feels they don't get it, and is inclined to swing toward | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
somebody like Donald Trump promising, even on a lack of | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
experience, that he can do better. Hillary Clinton made reference to | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Trump obliquely saying we must not demonise a race or a nation. Do | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
people here from her, somebody, there were all the questions about | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
whether Obama would ever call out Islamist fanaticism, do people still | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
watch her language in that way? Sure, people on the right certainly | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
do, and a lot of Trump 's supporters or people leaning that way are | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
certainly looking at that. But on the other side a lot of people are | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
looking for her to make even more of a campaign issue of Trump's racism. | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
The deplorables in another word, did that work or not? No, that was not a | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
good choice, that was her elitism coming out which never helps. But I | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
think there is segment of the electorate, racial minorities, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
people on the left who voted for Bernie, for whom Hillary Clinton's | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
main selling point is that she is not a demagogue racist. So for her | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
to emphasise that is a good choice for those voters, but it's tricky | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
because there are also other voters. And for those on the left, they are | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
now looking essentially at two pretty hawkish candidates. If you | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
had to ask what foreign policy would be like under Clinton or under | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Trump, you don't know who would be more actively involved, right? | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Hillary Clinton comes off as a very traditional national-security | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
leader, following on Obama, somebody described her campaign has a Obama | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
heavy. Trump sometimes comes off as isolationist, sometimes very | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
aggressive. So it is much harder to know what you are going to get. I | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
think that Trump is trying to portray that he understands it and | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
will deal with it. That is what he is pitching to them. What do you | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
make of the race more widely? We have definitely seen a tightening of | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
the polls, we know that there are supplies as every week at this | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
stage, but would Clinton's team be worried by this and would baby | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
changing? They are absolutely worried about this. They would be | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
crazy not to be and be crazy not to try to change more. They need to do | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
more to appeal to minority groups. She is spending a lot of time, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
curiously enough, at fundraisers. He's at these big rallies which look | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
very public and cheese at fundraisers, does she need funds? | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
It's a strange choice, she has a lot of funds already and she has the | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
elite behind her, I mean, where else are they going to go? I don't think | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
that the establishment needs to be convinced she is the right | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
candidate. I think she needs to get out and talk to people. | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Mathematically it is harder for Trump? It is much harder, looking at | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
the electoral college, the big states have always gone Democrat, | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
California biggest among them. At the same time he is having a real | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
run for some swing states that have not gone Republican for a while, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Nevada. He's trying to rack | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
up the real path to the presidency here. One thing I would say as | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
regards to where we are in this election, I would say it is dead | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
even and we don't know who will come out ahead and it will probably be | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
decided by something we don't know yet. Sounds like an extraordinary | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
few weeks still to go. Obama has congratulated the police for | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
catching the suspect, the man they believe may have a connection to | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
these bombs, at he urged supporters on Saturday to choose hope over | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
fear, returning to his message, very important if people wanted to | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
consider his legacy, to vote for her -- continue his legacy. The | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
president really coming into the race at this point to back Hillary | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Clinton, too. The hackers known as the Fancy | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Bears, have been releasing more data today on the medical conditions | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
of selected international Society generally frowns | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
upon the leaking of But is it possible that people | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
will at some point say these hackers have done us favour by alerting us | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
to a grey area in relation What is being leaked are details | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
of therapeutic use exemptions - TUEs - licences for athletes to take | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
drugs for good medicinal reasons. Today, it emerged that Mo Farah had | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
two TUEs over the years; golfer Justin Rose and Rafal Nadal also | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
had details leaked. A lot of attention has focussed | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
on Sir Bradley Wiggins, who had exemptions to take | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
a powerful steroid called triam-cinolone on several occasions, | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
just days ahead of major races, one of which was the 2012 | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Tour De France, which he won. World Anti-Doping Agency say there | :15:38. | :15:49. | |
is no problem. Now - there's no suggestion | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Sir Bradley, or any of the other A little earlier, I spoke | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
to Dr Jeroen Swart from Cape Town. Dr Swart is much published sport | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
scientist who last year defended Chris Froome against charges of drug | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
cheating, having carried out He explained why he's less happy | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
with what he's heard It is not one single point, | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
it is a cluster of points and when you look at them | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
in isolation, it might seem fine, but we take them all together | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
in context, it leaves The first of those is simply | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
the statements that were made by Bradley Wiggins himself | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
in his autobiography in 2012 where he specifically stated | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
that he had only ever used a needle or an injection for immunisations | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
and for a drip when he was ill. And the team's policy, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
which was publicly stated, If one of the riders were sick | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
they would rather send them home rather than use | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
a prohibited substance These details that were leaked | :16:56. | :16:56. | |
contradict both of those statements. It is simply that they | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
contradict the statements The other aspects are that | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
the substance that was used is quite a strong, long acting | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
corticosteroid. It is not used frequently | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
in the control of asthma and allergic conditions, | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
it is used as a last resort. The other problem with that | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
substance is it is the same substance that has been used | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
by athletes specifically in cycling With a lot of testimonials | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
from ex-professional cyclists, some who have been caught | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
using prohibited substances and they all happen to have views | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
coincidently on the exact same drug. And some of them have reported | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
to have abused it in You have been a defender | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
of Chris Froome, haven't you? And last year, you helped | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
carry out tests on him, which you indicated were, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
if you like, helpful for Froome, against those saying | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
he was cheating with drugs. And there have been details linked | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
of his use of these TUEs as well. It is not just Chris Froome, | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
I think I have been a fairly firm I have been involved in cycling | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
for a long time. I have raced professionally | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
as a cyclist in the mountain I have a strong | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
passion for the sport. And during the time that | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
I participated and I have been involved in the sport in other ways, | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
I have obviously seen all of these scandals and we always | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
want to be optimistic and hope that we have reached | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
a new era where the sport is going to be cleaner and it | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
certainly looks as though we are in better times than we have | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
been in the past. And so, when a team such as Sky | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
comes along and presents an image of being squeaky clean and certainly | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
in terms of their stated intentions to do things by the book, | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
and as transparently as possible and then does well in terms | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
of their performances. That gives one hope and optimism | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
and my approach has been to wait for evidence that that is not | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
the case and rather than speculate and go on hearsay, and up | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
until recently and specifically these TUE leaks, my position | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
was more in support of them We have no evidence | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
that they have cheated at all. This is a perfectly | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
legal way of getting Last one, if I might, | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
corticosteroids, are these really drugs now that you think needs extra | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
regulation and extra care? If you look at one of the scientific | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
studies into them and their performance from a French | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
university, the colleagues published the study where they took | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
recreationally competitive cyclists, they exposed them to a week | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
of intense training and before that training week and after that | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
training week they asked them to ride at 75% of their peak power | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
output and they then give them another drug during a week | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
of training as well. During the week of training | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
without the corticosteroids, they improved their time by about, | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
approximately ten minutes. The corticosteroid week | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
when they trained with the exact same training, together | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
with the dose of the corticosteroids daily, they improved their time | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
by approximately 50 minutes. They almost doubled the time | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
they could hold 75% That is quite | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
a dramatic performance. The use of corticosteroids together | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
with strenuous training resulted in a far greater improvement | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
in performance after one week So there is evidence | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
that corticosteroids enhance endurance and | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
athletic performance. They are therefore prohibited | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
in competition, but at the moment, there is no regulation | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
of corticosteroids out of competition and that means that | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
athletes can go and train and consume corticosteroids to | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
whatever extent they like and then And if you look at the results | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
of that study, that certainly indicates that they could | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
have a performance enhancement by using corticosteroids | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
as an aid to train. And lots of anecdotal | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
evidence from former professionals who have been | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
caught using prohibited We spoke to Team Sky and to | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins office today. They both referred us to earlier | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
statements they've made, emphasising that all TUEs | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
were applied with the approval So Bradley Wiggins has said that | :22:19. | :22:32. | |
when he wrote in his autobiography about never having had an injection | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
he was referring to the historical practice of intravenous jacks -- | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
injections of performance enhancers, not the intramuscular 1-person -- | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
reference. Teams get it was wrong to say it did not allow riders compete | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
under TUEs. At around midday on Saturday, | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is very likely to be re-elected as Labour leader | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
and the recalcitrant parliamentary party | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
will have to live with him, notwithstanding its | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
obvious misgivings. The great debate among senior Corbyn | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
opponents is whether to re-join A choice described as | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
whether to serve or sulk. Meanwhile we can tell | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
you what Team Corbyn's plan is, for what to do the the moment it | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
wins the leadership again - it'll start preparing | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
for a general election. Our political editor Nick Watt | :23:14. | :23:14. | |
is with me. What can you tell us? What we have | :23:15. | :23:28. | |
learned is that Jeremy Corbyn is planning to put the Labour Party on | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
a General Election fitting if he wins that leadership contest as | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
seems likely on Saturday. He accepts that Theresa May has said no to a | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
snap election but he thinks she might hold an election next year for | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
two possible reasons, one, she may need a mandate for her Brexit | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
negotiations as a way of overcoming divisions in her party and the | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
second reason is she may possibly look at the splits in the Labour | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
Party. We might see a number of appointments, | :23:53. | :24:09. | |
some reorganisation and an acceleration of the policy-making | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
process to make sure that the Labour Party is ready for that. At the | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
front of his mind is the hope that the prospect of an election will | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
instil some discipline in his party. I also found out that Jeremy Corbyn | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
is actually prepared to facilitate an early General Election, if | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Theresa May table a Commons motion calling for such an early election, | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
he would instruct his Labour MPs to vote for it because under the fixed | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
term Parliament act, that can only happen if two thirds of MPs vote for | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
it. A lot of this is around an attempt to unify the party but you | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
have news on his mission to do that as well. Jeremy Corbyn has been | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
involved in an exercise to try and woo back former frontbenchers. I | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
spoke to two former members of the Shadow Cabinet who said they would | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
accept an invitation, the former Shadow Welsh Secretary said that if | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
he wins it will be a time for everyone to be positive and another | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
former frontbencher who was very critical of Jeremy Corbyn at the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
time of those resignations, said it would be time to pull together. A | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
much larger group of former frontbencher say they regularly come | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
back if the national executive would consider to rival proposals, one | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
table by Tom Watson is to restore the old system, the second, a system | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
favoured by Jeremy Corbyn is to give party members are far greater say. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
The Tom Watson proposal is favoured by most of the former frontbenchers, | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
the Jeremy Corbyn proposal is favoured by a few. The election next | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
year, the idea of an election next year, it is not only Jeremy Corbyn | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
who is saying that is one to watch. I have been speaking to Paddy | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Ashdown, and he says that if Theresa May goes for a soft Brexit, when she | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
triggers the process to take us out early next year, he believes that | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
would lead to a civil war, which could bounce her into holding an | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
early election. This is what he told me. | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
If she chooses as I think she will, something that's in the best | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
interests of Britain, if it has to be Brexit, i.e. | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
continued access to the single market, she has 100 MPs | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
who are going to say, up with this we will not put. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
She then loses the majority in the House of Commons. | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
Sooner or later she has to bring that back to the house. | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
She will find herself in that conundrum. | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
Labour will say no for opportunistic reasons, they won't support her. | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
If she wants to get that through, she | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
So she doesn't think she wants an election, | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
I think she's honest in saying she won't get one. | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
But I'm not sure that the civil war in the Tory party, not | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
yet visible but will become increasingly visible as she | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
identifies that, will make that the only way | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
Paddy Ashdown's theory there. Thank you very much. | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
There is freedom of movement across Britain and the EU | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
at the moment, but back in May the Home Office qualified the right | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
of Europeans to reside here, by saying that those who have no | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
where to live, can be sent back to their own country. | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Now, this means EU citizens who are found living on the street | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
for whatever reason can be forcibly repatriated. | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
It is a way of reducing the number of street sleepers - | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
which have been boosted by foreigners struggling | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
Katie Inman has been looking at how the policy is working. | :27:11. | :27:57. | |
I would say that we would have around 50 to 60 people sleeping | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
rough and many of them would move out, only for the summertime, | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
because they are happy to live in these conditions | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
But some people have to stay all the time because they do not | :28:08. | :28:20. | |
Do they know anyone who has been removed or sent | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
They know some people who have been removed by immigration | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
TRANSLATION: If you're working, it is not a problem | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
but if you cannot find work to support yourself, it is hard. | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
If you're not paid, they will throw you out. | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
They are earning around ?50 a day and around ?35 is spent for food | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
and ?15 they then send back to their families in Romania. | :28:45. | :28:54. | |
We are looked down on and seen as bad as if we are here | :28:55. | :29:04. | |
When you came here from Latvia five years ago, what did you hope for? | :29:05. | :31:31. | |
It sort of was arranged but it did not work out. | :31:32. | :32:08. | |
I do not shoplift, I do not rob people, | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
I simply try to survive and someone is basically making a wrong | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
And so, I am being brushed with the same brush of other | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
homeless people, drug addicts and stuff. | :32:28. | :32:44. | |
The issue around whether or not somebody should be removed | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
is invariably nothing to do with economic inactivity, | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
but has always traditionally been associated with some sort | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
of criminalisation process, having been imprisoned, etc... | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
and one of the things that is clear is that you cannot remove someone | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
simply on the basis of poverty, but rather | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
Over at the Royal Society this evening, the Insight Investment | :33:04. | :33:33. | |
Brian Cox has been hosting the event, and the winner | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
is Andrea Wulf for a biography of the German explorer and | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
If you want to know one thing about Humboldt, it should be that | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
more things have been named after him than anyone else. | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
Well, this year's science book prize comes at a time of apprehension | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
for many in the science community, over funding and collaboration post | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
Brexit, and over the place of science in a world | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
in which there is diminishing deference to expert opinion. | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
I went down to the Royal Society earlier, to meet Andrea | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
Looking down the slopes and the mountain ranges in the distance, | :34:07. | :34:24. | |
everything Humboldt had seen in the previous years came together. | :34:25. | :34:26. | |
Everything that he'd ever observed fell into place. | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
This new idea of nature was to change the way people | :34:30. | :34:31. | |
The most common reaction I got when I said I | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
was writing a book about Humboldt was a blank face because very few | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
The weird thing is there are more people, places and plants named | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
There is a Humboldt current, Humboldt Penguin, | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
Even the state of Nevada was almost called Humboldt | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
when the name was discussed in the 1860s. | :34:55. | :34:56. | |
We would be saying Las Vegas, Humboldt, now. | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
I mean, Brian, he was doing his science at a time when | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
science, I mean, you make it sound fun but it was much more fun in his | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
day because there was so much you could discover. | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
You could be discovering acres of the world, | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
We've just been discussing this actually. | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
You saw it in Britain with people like | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
Joseph Banks and on through to Darwin, and you see | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
There is always a sense of regret, I think, that now | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
Regret is probably the wrong word because we have a vast amount of | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
knowledge that no one human being can get across, and it is very | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
Perhaps this time, the 1860s to the 1870s | :35:44. | :35:55. | |
was the last time you could do that. | :35:56. | :35:57. | |
I think he is really the last polymath. | :35:58. | :35:58. | |
He dies in 1859, that's really the last moment that one | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
person can hold all the knowledge in their head. | :36:02. | :36:03. | |
After that science is | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
specialised so much, scientists crawl into their narrowing | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
disciplines, and this kind of holistic view | :36:12. | :36:12. | |
It's rather interesting because in the | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
book you talk about Darwin and his relationship to Humboldt. | :36:17. | :36:18. | |
You say Darwin was standing on Humboldt's | :36:19. | :36:20. | |
Do we slightly overestimate Darwin's contribution | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
Given that quite a lot of it was there in the | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
work Humboldt had been doing, and others? | :36:33. | :36:33. | |
mistakes we tend to do is create these geniuses, these kind of | :36:34. | :36:41. | |
amazing figures in history, where actually they don't act out on their | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
own, they are very much part of what's going on around them. | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
They are not just coming up with | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
What Humboldt is doing is, for example, inspiring | :36:50. | :36:57. | |
Darwin to actually go to South America. | :36:58. | :36:58. | |
So Darwin says he would have never boarded the Beagle | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
If he'd not boarded the Beagle he would never have | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
But he's also using Humboldt's books as | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
an inspiration for his own writing, so they are very similar in style, | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
because Humboldt combines poetic landscape descriptions with hard | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
scientific data, very much like Darwin does | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
But he also learns about, Humboldt writes about the | :37:19. | :37:29. | |
But other scientists are also doing this. | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
I think we need to see them in the context. | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
The scientific community, the Royal Society has been | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
worried about Brexit, complete change of subject | :37:41. | :37:41. | |
Worried about Brexit implications for collaboration | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
The government can sort out the funding | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
and say we'll make sure you are funded, is that enough | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
to satisfy the scientific community about some | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
of the nerves there have been about Brexit? | :38:01. | :38:02. | |
No, I think the funding, although important, is secondary to | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
the freedom of movement of people, the freedom of movement of ideas. | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
That's always been central to the scientific endeavour. | :38:11. | :38:18. | |
I myself, for certain, it's | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
At the last count there were | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
something like 88 countries collaborating, it increases all the | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
There is the European Southern Observatory which is the world's | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
There are big international projects. | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
And if it turns out that people can't move freely to | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
study, move freely to cooperate, then I think that's more damaging. | :38:44. | :38:52. | |
We've always dealt with short-term variations in funding. | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
Funding goes up and down and we weather the storm. | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
If we, as a country, cut ourselves off, if we make it | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
more difficult to collaborate across national borders, | :39:06. | :39:07. | |
then I think that is something more serious. | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
The Brexiteers I'm sure will say that's | :39:14. | :39:15. | |
Before we go, some breaking news while we have been on air, an aid | :39:16. | :39:28. | |
convoy carrying emergency supplies of food and medicine has been | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
attacked by air strike in Syria. The convoy was bound for rebel held | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
areas of Aleppo. It's unclear who was responsible for the attacks but | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
it is a clear sign that the tentative ceasefire signed a week | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
ago, well, it appears to be over. At least 12 aid workers are believed to | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
have been killed. We'll follow that up in tomorrow's programme. But that | :39:51. | :39:52. | |
is it for tonight. We leave you with the work | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
of inventor and artist John Edmark. His speciality is spinning | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
round sculptures at a speed carefully synchronised with a strobe | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
light in a design strictly dictated by fibanacci | :40:03. | :40:04. | |
numbers, all in order to... # Round round get around | :40:05. | :40:06. | |
# I get around # Get around round round | :40:07. | :40:19. | |
# I get around # From town to town | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
# I get around # I'm a real cool head | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
# Get around round round | :40:28. | :40:29. | |
# I get around # I'm makin' real good bread | :40:30. | :40:31. | |
# Round round get around I get around | :40:32. | :40:33. | |
# Get around round round I get around | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
# Get around round round I get around | :40:37. | :40:42. |