:00:32. > :00:38.Good morning. Euro-election fever is upon us. Picture of the week must be
:00:39. > :00:42.the selfie captured in a Nandos when one diner spotted that the Prime
:00:43. > :00:49.Minister had popped in for a chicken peri-peri. She looks stunned. Not as
:00:50. > :00:53.stunned as the chicken, obviously. And joining me today for our review
:00:54. > :00:55.of the Sunday newspapers, the renowned foreign correspondent
:00:56. > :01:00.Christiane Amanpour who anchors a nightly programme on CNN. And the
:01:01. > :01:03.Times columnist David Aaronovitch. All the politicians are at it of
:01:04. > :01:07.course, giving interviews on trains, molesting innocent market stall
:01:08. > :01:10.keepers, nibbling babies. Following our interview with Msrs Edward
:01:11. > :01:13.Miliband and Nigel Farage last Sunday, the leader of the
:01:14. > :01:17.Conservative Party will be joining us live in the studio this morning.
:01:18. > :01:19.Just ten days to voting, can David Cameron transform our unhappy
:01:20. > :01:28.relationship with the European Union? Will he advise us to leave if
:01:29. > :01:31.he fails? And what about all those jobs at stake at AstraZenica as the
:01:32. > :01:36.American drug giant Pfizer circles them? Talking of jobs at stake, what
:01:37. > :01:39.about Barclays Bank? Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins announced
:01:40. > :01:45.plans to slash thousands of of jobs in Britain this week. And, unusually
:01:46. > :01:50.for senior bankers, he's agreed to come on television this morning.
:01:51. > :01:53.Joining us from the arts world, Johnathan Kent and Imelda Staunton,
:01:54. > :01:57.an actress described as as filling a cracking lead role to perfection for
:01:58. > :02:04.her current West End appearance. It's a play about class and poverty
:02:05. > :02:07.and it really is funny. With music from the wonderful Sir James Galway
:02:08. > :02:11.and his wife right here in the studio I hope you'll enjoy the hour
:02:12. > :02:17.ahead. First, as usual, to the news desk and Katherine Downes. Thank
:02:18. > :02:20.you, Andrew. Good morning. British forces have pulled out of their last
:02:21. > :02:24.outpost in Helmand province. It means Camp Bastion is the only
:02:25. > :02:27.remaining base for UK forces, ahead of the full withdrawal later his
:02:28. > :02:30.year. The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has been visiting the
:02:31. > :02:38.troops, and the BBC Afghanistan correspondent David Loyn was the
:02:39. > :02:42.only TV journalist with him. For the last time, a US helicopter lands on
:02:43. > :02:45.the rough Helmand province landscape carrying a British Defence
:02:46. > :02:49.Secretary. Philip Hammond came to see troops who had been sleeping in
:02:50. > :02:52.the open Sundays now with only bottled water to wash in the open
:02:53. > :02:57.Sundays now with only bottled water to washing. Since all the buildings
:02:58. > :03:03.intense been taken away. Given the high loss of life, and the dubious
:03:04. > :03:07.success of this operation, it's still a source of most of the
:03:08. > :03:14.world's a legal heroin. With a public support in future conflicts?
:03:15. > :03:18.I sense there is a touch of wall wariness but the British people are
:03:19. > :03:21.clear we came into Afghanistan to protect our own national interests
:03:22. > :03:27.first and foremost. And part of protecting that has been helping to
:03:28. > :03:30.build a credible Afghan state for the future. Having stability in this
:03:31. > :03:36.part of the world is very much in Britain's national interest. Troops
:03:37. > :03:42.been leaving by helicopter and by road everyday. Until this is just a
:03:43. > :03:46.bare hill again. Britain's Long engagement in Helmand is drawing to
:03:47. > :03:51.an end. The closure of this last base leaves only camp Bastian as
:03:52. > :03:57.Britain's base in Helmand and within a few months, that will also close.
:03:58. > :04:01.A row has broken out within the coalition over the funding of school
:04:02. > :04:04.places. Lib Dem sources claim 30,000 school places are being lost as
:04:05. > :04:08.money is diverted instead to free schools. They have accused the
:04:09. > :04:12.Education Secretary, Michael Gove, of lunacy. His office disputes the
:04:13. > :04:18.claim and calls the attack on Mr Gove pathetic. Voting is under way
:04:19. > :04:21.in eastern Ukraine, in a referendum on independence for the Donetsk
:04:22. > :04:24.region. The referendum has gone ahead despite calls earlier in the
:04:25. > :04:27.week from Russia's President Putin for it to be postponed. The
:04:28. > :04:32.Ukrainian government and the international community have said
:04:33. > :04:36.the vote is illegal. The number of billionaires living in Britain has
:04:37. > :04:39.risen to more than a hundred for the first time, according to the Sunday
:04:40. > :04:44.Times Rich List. At the top are the Indian-born Hinduja brothers, with a
:04:45. > :04:48.combined wealth of ?11.9 billion. 104 billionaires are now based in
:04:49. > :04:54.the UK. Three times the number resident here a decade ago.
:04:55. > :04:56.Austria's bearded drag Queen, Conchita Wurst, has won the
:04:57. > :05:01.Eurovision Song Contest, with her ballad, Rise Like A Phoenix. Russian
:05:02. > :05:04.politicians had described the act as perverse and corrupt. The audience
:05:05. > :05:08.in Copenhagen booed and jeered when it was Russia's turn to vote. There
:05:09. > :05:19.was disappointment for the UK's Molly Smitten-Downs, who came 17th.
:05:20. > :05:23.Sophie van Brugen reports. # Rise like a Phoenix. It was her night,
:05:24. > :05:27.favourite of the like a Phoenix. It was her night,
:05:28. > :05:32.bookmakers, she rose like a Phoenix to be declared in the clear winner
:05:33. > :05:42.of Eurovision. With 290 points. Austria, 12 points. She had a clear
:05:43. > :05:47.message. This night is dedicated to everyone who believes in a future of
:05:48. > :05:52.peace and freedom. CHEERING
:05:53. > :06:03.You know who you are. We are unity and we are unstoppable. Politics
:06:04. > :06:07.inevitably covers both the voting and the performances and this year,
:06:08. > :06:10.it was between Russia and Ukraine. There were audible booing amongst
:06:11. > :06:11.the audience whenever Russia were awarded points.
:06:12. > :06:20.the audience whenever Russia were AUDIENCE BOOS
:06:21. > :06:23.the audience whenever Russia were The competition is over for another
:06:24. > :06:26.year and no doubt Austria are already making plans as to how they
:06:27. > :06:33.want to host the competition for its 60th anniversary. That's all from
:06:34. > :06:39.me, for now. I'll be back with the headlines just before ten o'clock.
:06:40. > :06:45.Back to you, Andrew. Many thanks. Conchita Wurst, these
:06:46. > :06:50.are made up names, surely? Now to the papers. There is one big
:06:51. > :06:54.political story running which is the fight between Michael Gove and his
:06:55. > :06:57.Liberal Democrat rivals, allies, colleagues, whatever you call them,
:06:58. > :07:01.in the government, but the government, over shifting funds
:07:02. > :07:06.around. The Independent has a great front page here. There he is looking
:07:07. > :07:12.very zealous and slightly frightening. Interesting that zealot
:07:13. > :07:17.is now an equivocal term of abuse. The Sunday Telegraph has the other
:07:18. > :07:21.poetical story here. David Cameron tells Eurosceptics, trust me, I get
:07:22. > :07:25.it. We will be talking about later on. The Sunday Times is leading the
:07:26. > :07:30.super-rich story we heard about earlier on. This extraordinary story
:07:31. > :07:34.on the front of the mail on Sunday. The BBC sacking a disc jockey for
:07:35. > :07:38.playing the sun has got his hat on in the original version which has an
:07:39. > :07:41.offensive word. We would talk about that later with Christiane Amanpour
:07:42. > :07:50.and David Aaronovitch. Thank you for joining us. We will start off with a
:07:51. > :07:57.David Cameron story. The Sunday Telegraph has an article by him and
:07:58. > :08:00.the front page, trust me, I get it. I think it's an extremely bad sign
:08:01. > :08:04.when anybody is either asked to get it or say they get it. It is the end
:08:05. > :08:08.they are required to get which is wrong usually but nevertheless, you
:08:09. > :08:12.want to reassure people. He has written this article because the
:08:13. > :08:18.postal ballots are just about to come through letter boxes. And his
:08:19. > :08:22.phrases, with those readers whose fingers are hovering over the
:08:23. > :08:27.Conservative box, so this is what he is offering them, the idea that he
:08:28. > :08:30.alone, of course, will give them a referendum and he will get great
:08:31. > :08:35.changes inside Europe, deliver that to them, and therefore they should
:08:36. > :08:38.go for him. And a previous article on the Sunday express can we now
:08:39. > :08:41.know what is the man express can we now know what his demands are going
:08:42. > :08:48.to be, roughly speaking. Well, very roughly speaking. The one thing we
:08:49. > :08:52.do know is whatever he gets, he will attempt, if he is in power, and
:08:53. > :08:55.there was a referendum in 2017, he will say his demands are being met
:08:56. > :08:59.because he knows it will be a disaster for Britain to pull out of
:09:00. > :09:05.the EU in 2017, so whatever happens, he will be trying to convince you
:09:06. > :09:09.now that his demands can be met, and he will convince in 2017 they have
:09:10. > :09:13.been met because he will want a Yes Vote. The big problem is, large
:09:14. > :09:17.section of that conservatives are determined his demands will be met
:09:18. > :09:22.and they want a No Vote. Lots of fun to come, as we say. You have chosen
:09:23. > :09:25.the biggest international story at the moment, Boko Haram and the
:09:26. > :09:30.terrible abduction of these girls in Nigeria. Yes, it's a massive story
:09:31. > :09:34.obviously and for the right reasons. It's not just girls have
:09:35. > :09:38.been kidnapped and taken away. And as a vendor speed of Boko Haram
:09:39. > :09:42.who've gone on the air swaggering and laughing about having taken them
:09:43. > :09:47.and threatening to sell them. First of all, it's a massive human
:09:48. > :09:52.trafficking story. A massive story which has touched the whole world.
:09:53. > :09:57.We have the first Lady of USA who was joined the campaign. Britain,
:09:58. > :10:03.United States, France, , helping Nigeria with intelligence, hostage
:10:04. > :10:08.to go shooting expertise and maybe some military help. To try to fix
:10:09. > :10:14.this terrible thing which has gone wrong. On the one hand, a campaign
:10:15. > :10:19.like this is great because it mobilises people on the other hand,
:10:20. > :10:23.I'm a tiny bit concerned it's a bubble which collapses with nothing
:10:24. > :10:29.being done. The Internet has huge power but a short attention span.
:10:30. > :10:34.Yes, we will find it on our programme on CNN that Nigeria is
:10:35. > :10:39.100% saturated with social media, with such problems with electricity,
:10:40. > :10:43.being able to watch the news, they are all on social media, so this is
:10:44. > :10:46.getting to the people in Nigeria. The fact is, we have been reporting
:10:47. > :10:51.on these terrible disappearances for years and years and years. OK, now
:10:52. > :10:55.it's getting a lot of coverage and hopefully something will be done
:10:56. > :11:00.about it. Absolutely thought of to domestic politics, David, have
:11:01. > :11:06.chosen Michael Gove. That's a very scary photograph of Michael Gove and
:11:07. > :11:11.those of us who know him have not often team that face made, except in
:11:12. > :11:15.jest. I don't find the actual story of the day version of money so very
:11:16. > :11:19.surprising. It's not a huge amount of money in education budget and is
:11:20. > :11:22.not clear from context how many people will won't miss out as a
:11:23. > :11:25.consequence of it. I'm not diminishing it, but the importance
:11:26. > :11:32.of it in political terms of fact there is a row with Lib Dems who
:11:33. > :11:35.unnamed sources are prepared to absolutely put the boot into their
:11:36. > :11:39.coalition partners, which means it'll be put in the other way round.
:11:40. > :11:47.It feels as if it's coming from the top, around the Deputy Prime
:11:48. > :11:50.Minister? It's hard to judge but essentially the languages of
:11:51. > :11:54.extremely senior cabinet based Liberal Democrat sources. Of course,
:11:55. > :11:58.we have almost one year to go to the election. There will be distancing
:11:59. > :12:02.going on but it is a reminder and actually, in the Observer, they
:12:03. > :12:08.sternly in their leader, this is squabbling, unsightly squabbling,
:12:09. > :12:12.between the two coalition partners. And both will get it in the neck
:12:13. > :12:20.from the electorate if, by the time of the next election, if they have
:12:21. > :12:26.both been seen to knock each other for strictly electoral reasons. I'm
:12:27. > :12:29.ruthlessly using you to Julie international stories this morning
:12:30. > :12:35.and you have chosen Ukraine which gets nasty by the minute. There's a
:12:36. > :12:40.referendum in parts of eastern Ukraine which is going on this
:12:41. > :12:43.morning. Apparently, even define that Putin, although who knows what
:12:44. > :12:47.it means when he asked them to postpone it. This is a massively
:12:48. > :12:51.difficult problem for Ukraine and for the West to deal with in that
:12:52. > :12:55.part of the world, which has decided it wants to be independent and
:12:56. > :13:02.govern its own realities, but Russia is interfering so incredibly
:13:03. > :13:06.heavily. We saw this weekend, at the end of the week, Vladimir Putin in
:13:07. > :13:11.Crimea celebrating victory. We don't know what his next move is. I
:13:12. > :13:15.interviewed a commanding general of NATO said that they are trying to
:13:16. > :13:18.landlocked Ukraine, and the USA feels they're trying to do that as
:13:19. > :13:24.well and that would be very, very dangerous. What will that mean?
:13:25. > :13:27.Putting a barrier all the way round to death, and putting so much
:13:28. > :13:32.pressure on this country. People have now decided that I know what's
:13:33. > :13:38.in Peebles had done may not be invading it but to try to force it
:13:39. > :13:40.with the reality on Ukraine which matches what Vladimir Putin once. --
:13:41. > :13:47.Odessa. They will want maximum matches what Vladimir Putin once. --
:13:48. > :13:51.autonomy which flies in the face of the West and the Kiev authorities.
:13:52. > :13:56.One of the other papers is an interesting report from the pro-Kiev
:13:57. > :13:59.paramilitaries. There's no huge paramilitary unit on both sides
:14:00. > :14:02.fighting each other and the power war going on in the east, out of
:14:03. > :14:10.control from Moscow, I suspect. It is. The Kiev authorities spent a lot
:14:11. > :14:14.of time sitting on their hands and not provoking Vladimir Putin. They
:14:15. > :14:17.try to establish a central control but didn't want to give them an
:14:18. > :14:21.excuse to invade. There have been deaths, as you mentioned, and that
:14:22. > :14:26.it Putin has not moved in to save the poor bully good people of
:14:27. > :14:38.eastern Ukraine but what's really important for your viewers, eating
:14:39. > :14:46.kippers and mash, but... I love tapas but they do repeat. Anyway,
:14:47. > :14:49.these polls which are being conducted show overwhelmingly that
:14:50. > :14:54.75% of the Ukrainian people want to remain part of the United Ukraine,
:14:55. > :14:58.but also in the East, also among the pro-Russian speakers, 58%, a
:14:59. > :15:02.majority in anybody's mathematics, want to stay part of Ukraine so
:15:03. > :15:08.Vladimir Putin is really barking up the wrong tree in my view. He must
:15:09. > :15:12.be worried that these forces, because they're out of control,
:15:13. > :15:17.could themselves conduct their own massacre and he would get the blame.
:15:18. > :15:21.And how about Vladimir Putin suddenly seeing on his border, an
:15:22. > :15:27.Afghan style civil war like they had when they went into Afghanistan? It
:15:28. > :15:30.could bring him down. You did talk about Afghanistan and we both think
:15:31. > :15:34.one of the great things which just happened in Afghanistan was a
:15:35. > :15:37.successful election in which people defied these terrible Boko Haram
:15:38. > :15:43.style Taliban. These are the same people who terrified girls and
:15:44. > :15:48.normal people and yet women and men came out and voted in a democratic
:15:49. > :15:58.election. They came out and they didn't get hanged. Let's turn to a
:15:59. > :16:06.slightly less important story, didn't get hanged. Let's turn to a
:16:07. > :16:11.very strange one, the BBC has sacked a Devon DJ.
:16:12. > :16:21.They have sacked him, or rather he played this song, The Sun Has Got
:16:22. > :16:35.His Hat On, which somewhere contains the 'N' word. The Jeremy Clarkson
:16:36. > :16:40.word. Somebody played it, he issued an apology, but strangely she said,
:16:41. > :16:46.I can offer an apology or I will fall on my sword if you want. The
:16:47. > :16:52.BBC could have said, you didn't realise it was there, that is fine.
:16:53. > :16:57.They said, that is a good idea, fall on your sword. Never say to a BBC
:16:58. > :17:02.manager that you will fall on your sword if they want you to because
:17:03. > :17:07.you never know what they will say. David Cameron is on the front page
:17:08. > :17:18.of one of these newspapers urging a female head of the BBC, not a moment
:17:19. > :17:25.too soon. The BBC Trust, we should say. The BBC Trust, OK. We cannot
:17:26. > :17:36.make any racist comments or anti-Semitic comments, but this
:17:37. > :17:43.seemed... A natural mistake. In the Sunday Times, France says it
:17:44. > :17:48.confronts racism with a giggle and they are talking about a film where
:17:49. > :17:53.these bourgeois French families wanted their children to marry well
:17:54. > :18:00.within their same class and they all bring back the north African, a
:18:01. > :18:04.Jewish entrepreneur, and Asian businessman. It seems to have struck
:18:05. > :18:12.a chord with a lot of people in France. David, you are next. My last
:18:13. > :18:16.story constitutes the single worst piece of advice given to the Prime
:18:17. > :18:25.Minister this year, it is in the Sunday express. He will win
:18:26. > :18:30.thousands of millions of votes if he promises to bring back fox hunting
:18:31. > :18:37.because he will win back those UKIP supporters. I think most of those
:18:38. > :18:47.supporters are motivated by immigration. Nevertheless, there it
:18:48. > :18:54.is on the front page. You won't have time, maybe we can ask him
:18:55. > :19:16.afterwards. It is very popular in central London. You can hear the
:19:17. > :19:20.Tally Ho. They are talking about Prince Charles and these bills about
:19:21. > :19:27.trying to take away that little power that he has and there is a
:19:28. > :19:31.play on at Islington which is all about this. It is a brilliant
:19:32. > :19:36.production and I thought, life imitating art. There are a lot of
:19:37. > :19:43.good players we will be talking about, another one later in the
:19:44. > :19:49.programme. Was that another good Segway? It was!
:19:50. > :19:53.We had some pretty lively weather yesterday with the wind hurling rain
:19:54. > :19:57.at us. Let's find out what's in store for the rest of the weekend
:19:58. > :20:02.with Chris Fawkes in the weather studio.
:20:03. > :20:10.For the time being, it is a cloudy start with outbreaks of rain but
:20:11. > :20:13.there will be slow improvements in the weather. Fairly gradually we
:20:14. > :20:19.will see some brighter spells working in. There will be some heavy
:20:20. > :20:22.showers later this afternoon, probably the heaviest of them
:20:23. > :20:27.forming across parts of England, maybe the north Midlands with some
:20:28. > :20:38.slow-moving thunderstorms here. There will be gusts of wind up to 40
:20:39. > :20:43.mph, with temperatures degree also down on yesterday. Overnight those
:20:44. > :20:48.brisk winds continue, staying cloudy with further showers on and off
:20:49. > :20:53.through the course of the night. It will be fairly mild, between seven
:20:54. > :20:57.and nine Celsius. It will be a breezy start of the day with showers
:20:58. > :21:03.from the word go, some of those could turn heavier into
:21:04. > :21:09.thunderstorms. The temperature is recovering to a degree, looking at
:21:10. > :21:14.highs of 17 Celsius and that improvement in the weather will
:21:15. > :21:18.continue in the week ahead. High pressure will build from mid week
:21:19. > :21:25.onwards, with temperatures climbing into the low 20s for some from
:21:26. > :21:31.Wednesday and Thursday onwards. I will hold you to that.
:21:32. > :21:34.The Great Recession may be over, but the long unwinding of all the
:21:35. > :21:37.problems in the banking industry, which caused the financial crisis,
:21:38. > :21:41.goes on. The boss of Barclays has just announced a major re-think of
:21:42. > :21:44.the bank's future. So, is this the death knell for casino banking in
:21:45. > :21:48.this country? And should we all applaud its demise, or be a little
:21:49. > :21:53.worried? I'm joined now by the Barclays chief executive, Antony
:21:54. > :21:58.Jenkins. Good morning. Congratulations for coming in and
:21:59. > :22:02.having this conversation, most of your colleagues won't do it.
:22:03. > :22:06.Thousands of jobs around the world and in Britain going from the
:22:07. > :22:11.so-called casino banking, are you getting out of this business
:22:12. > :22:16.entirely? Lots of things investment banks do are very important to
:22:17. > :22:22.economies. Companies need to raise money, we need people to protect our
:22:23. > :22:26.investments and so on. This is about focusing Barclays on what really
:22:27. > :22:31.matters but it is also about saving the world of investment banking is
:22:32. > :22:35.changing dramatically. The amount of capital we hold means it doesn't
:22:36. > :22:40.make any sense to do that any more so this is a change in focus. There
:22:41. > :22:46.was a time when the banks were jostling against JP Morgan and
:22:47. > :22:52.Goldman Sachs and so forth. It does seem that has been a British retreat
:22:53. > :22:56.from that kind of game. The world of investment banking has changed
:22:57. > :23:01.greatly and we need to focus on the part of the business where we can
:23:02. > :23:07.make of difference. Size itself is not the objective. Having an
:23:08. > :23:13.investment bank that works is. You have got a lot of criticism after
:23:14. > :23:17.the shareholders meeting, about a third of them voted against the
:23:18. > :23:23.board on salary and enumeration, and particularly the pay-outs going to
:23:24. > :23:33.investment bankers. I think they rose by 10% which seems like the bad
:23:34. > :23:37.old days again. We knew that these very significant changes were coming
:23:38. > :23:42.and we wanted to protect the parts of the investment bank that are part
:23:43. > :23:46.of the future. It was a one-time thing, we will not be repeating the
:23:47. > :23:52.situation in which profits are down and the bonus pool goes up. We were
:23:53. > :23:57.told these million pound plus bonuses were stopping and yet it is
:23:58. > :24:02.still here, what would you say to people who say that this is insane,
:24:03. > :24:08.securely when the bank is going down in terms of profits? I can
:24:09. > :24:12.understand the concern, but the truth of the matter is that if we
:24:13. > :24:18.want to be in that business, and it is important for Britain, we need to
:24:19. > :24:25.be competitive. Are they so good that they can command the salaries?
:24:26. > :24:29.They can, and the way we are focusing the bank going forwards
:24:30. > :24:35.means we will get value for money. Can I turn to so-called high street
:24:36. > :24:42.banks, you have said there will be branch closures, can you give us a
:24:43. > :24:47.sense of the scale of that? This is driven by what customers want to do
:24:48. > :24:50.and we are in the middle of the technology change in banking because
:24:51. > :24:57.we all do things online and we want to do things at our convenience.
:24:58. > :25:00.This means the nature of retail banking is changing fundamentally.
:25:01. > :25:04.There will still be hundreds of branches and tens of thousands of
:25:05. > :25:08.people employed within them, but as customers do business differently we
:25:09. > :25:13.have to respond. We don't have a target for branch closures, in fact
:25:14. > :25:18.we are opening branches in supermarkets and other locations so
:25:19. > :25:22.it is really about how we can deliver the services customers want.
:25:23. > :25:29.On Friday this week, customers paid a check in to the bank using their
:25:30. > :25:39.mobile. An awful lot of your employees are worried about their
:25:40. > :25:41.futures, when will they learn? We have no scale so our colleagues in
:25:42. > :25:46.the branch network have nothing to have no scale so our colleagues in
:25:47. > :25:51.what they are doing. have no scale so our colleagues in
:25:52. > :25:59.ahead, do you think our high streets will have lots of banks on them, or
:26:00. > :26:03.it will be all call centres and mobile phones? I think a lot of
:26:04. > :26:08.business will be done on mobile phones but probably less in call
:26:09. > :26:12.centres. If you take a ten year horizon there will probably be fewer
:26:13. > :26:19.bank branches but there will still be the need for people to go in and
:26:20. > :26:24.talk about products. You said to me these guys being paid these huge
:26:25. > :26:24.bonuses are worth it, but bankers will
:26:25. > :26:30.bonuses are worth it, but bankers guys for as long as this goes on
:26:31. > :26:38.which is a big problem for the industry, isn't it? It is, and just
:26:39. > :26:43.collapsed after the crisis and it is our job to build that back. That is
:26:44. > :26:47.what we are committed to doing at Barclays. Thank you for joining us
:26:48. > :26:49.this morning. Imelda Staunton's career covers an
:26:50. > :26:52.enviable list of Blockbuster movies, an Oscar
:26:53. > :26:55.nomination, Olivier awards galore. In recent years, her stage success
:26:56. > :26:59.has been shared with the director Jonathan Kent. He directed her in a
:27:00. > :27:02.rave revival of Sweeney Todd and they're now reunited for a funny but
:27:03. > :27:05.gritty American play which has just transferred to London's West End.
:27:06. > :27:08."Good People" is set in Boston. Staunton plays an out-of-work mother
:27:09. > :27:14.whose desperation to survive in a grim economy gives rise to some
:27:15. > :27:18.spiky and uneasy scenes. I'm going to be talking to both Imelda and
:27:19. > :27:28.Jonathan in a moment, but first here's a glimpse of Good People. You
:27:29. > :27:34.worked hard, you're right, you escaped, I didn't. You had a little
:27:35. > :27:40.help but you did it. What does that mean? You were luckier than most
:27:41. > :27:45.people, you were smart and you had a dad that pushed you, I wouldn't be
:27:46. > :27:51.complaining. I'm just saying we struggled, life wasn't easy. For
:27:52. > :27:57.most people I know, that's just how it is. We are seeing a whole series
:27:58. > :28:00.of plays from the Americans at the moment about survival, people
:28:01. > :28:06.falling off the edge, why do you think it is the Americans are so
:28:07. > :28:11.good at this and we are doing less? We have done a lot of it in the past
:28:12. > :28:16.I think, we have done in class, we are riddled with it but it is a
:28:17. > :28:18.fairly new thing for them. There seems to be a new energy and
:28:19. > :28:26.American theatre and dealing with what were English preoccupations,
:28:27. > :28:34.class, race and the limits of opportunity. This is south Boston
:28:35. > :28:37.and eukaryote south Boston accent perfectly through the play. You came
:28:38. > :28:42.from an Irish background, I wonder whether there was a crossover
:28:43. > :28:49.between your understanding of the world growing up, and this play.
:28:50. > :28:54.Absolutely working class, but my family and my family friends, all
:28:55. > :28:59.Irish in the 1950s, they could all get a job but the difference with
:29:00. > :29:03.these people is that they cannot get a job. The politicians say that
:29:04. > :29:10.everyone can get a job, if you work hard enough you can get to where you
:29:11. > :29:15.want to be but it is not true now. Is it that you are making bad
:29:16. > :29:20.choices and failures, or is it luck that some people get out? There is
:29:21. > :29:27.this ghastly doctor that has made it out and you say it is just luck.
:29:28. > :29:33.What about yourself, is it great and hard work that has brought you to
:29:34. > :29:37.the top? It will be both for me and I think I was lucky in the fact that
:29:38. > :29:41.my mother was a hairdresser, she wanted me to go to a great school so
:29:42. > :29:50.I went to a little private convent because she wanted me to do better.
:29:51. > :29:55.She wanted me to get out or get up whatever. Jonathan, you have worked
:29:56. > :30:01.with Imelda on Sweeney Todd, how differently do you approach a play
:30:02. > :30:07.like this? It is a small set, very fast-moving totally different. In
:30:08. > :30:11.it's about telling a story and in truth, and that's what is great
:30:12. > :30:16.about working with Imelda. It is the pursuit of the truth of the
:30:17. > :30:20.character. Who picked to? Did you think I want to work with Imelda
:30:21. > :30:24.Staunton or did you think I want to work with Johnathan Kent? I don't
:30:25. > :30:27.work with her all the time. Nonetheless, you would be a fool not
:30:28. > :30:32.to want to work with Christiane Amanpour. We did Sweeney Todd and we
:30:33. > :30:36.got lucky. We are going to do something at the end of the year. We
:30:37. > :30:41.had a gap, and we thought, if anything we could do? This was
:30:42. > :30:46.lucky. You read the play and thought this is what I want to do? Yes.
:30:47. > :30:55.Hampstead Theatre club sent it to us. It was obvious the minute I read
:30:56. > :30:58.it that it was a great part for Imelda. It arrived in Hampstead
:30:59. > :31:02.Theatre and you got some great reviews. Did you know you could take
:31:03. > :31:07.to the West End then? No, it's always about availability of
:31:08. > :31:16.theatres. And you're going to go on until next together? We are going to
:31:17. > :31:22.do Gypsy, the great American classic movie from the 50s. Meanwhile,
:31:23. > :31:27.Maleficent is a new Disney film where you appear, not as a cartoon
:31:28. > :31:31.character. I haven't seen it yet. Would you like to see a little bit
:31:32. > :31:35.of it? That would be charming. We have to be big enough to look after
:31:36. > :31:41.this baby. Get ready. One, two, three, grow! That worked quite well.
:31:42. > :31:45.That's very nice. Now there will be no questions asked. We are no longer
:31:46. > :31:53.fairies. We are three peasant women raising our orphaned child in the
:31:54. > :31:57.woods. So no more flying. Peasant woman, is it credible that Angelina
:31:58. > :32:04.Jolie as the wicked witch? It's a stretch to say the least, isn't it?
:32:05. > :32:07.Not at all. She can do anything. I haven't seen her in it or anything
:32:08. > :32:11.so I'm rather excited about the prospect of it. It must be weird
:32:12. > :32:14.acting in something presumably against the blue screen and not
:32:15. > :32:20.seeing what is going to be like at the end? We spent three weeks of
:32:21. > :32:25.blue dots all over our faces, flying up and down, about the most exciting
:32:26. > :32:28.thing I've done for them it was absolutely glorious. And then to get
:32:29. > :32:31.to turn into your actual size, I'm small enough as it is, but I was
:32:32. > :32:38.made even smaller, so it was good fun. Thank you both very much indeed
:32:39. > :32:40.for joining us this morning. The Prime Minister faces an insurgency
:32:41. > :32:43.over Europe, both inside the Conservative Party, and from UKIP.
:32:44. > :32:46.The real question for millions of voters is whether they can trust
:32:47. > :32:51.David Cameron to negotiate a transformed relationship with the
:32:52. > :32:55.EU, and give Britain a referendum. What exactly are his demands? Are
:32:56. > :32:59.they realistic? And is this, as he says, one last chance for our
:33:00. > :33:07.European future? Good morning, Prime Minister. Good morning. Let's talk
:33:08. > :33:11.today about Europe largely today Saint of the big issue at the
:33:12. > :33:15.moment. First of all, can you give me a cast-iron guarantee that a
:33:16. > :33:21.David Cameron led government will give Britain and in ad referendum
:33:22. > :33:26.within two years? Yes, absolutely. We'll held by the end of 2017,
:33:27. > :33:32.referendum on and in ad bases, do we stay in a reformed European Union or
:33:33. > :33:35.to relieve? Whatever the outcome of the next election, of course I want
:33:36. > :33:39.an overall majority and I'm hoping and believing I can win an overall
:33:40. > :33:43.majority, but people should be in no doubt I will not become Prime
:33:44. > :33:48.Minister unless I can guarantee that we'll that referendum. If for
:33:49. > :33:51.instance the Conservatives are the largest party with a minority, that
:33:52. > :33:55.suggests he would not then be Prime Minister because you couldn't
:33:56. > :33:59.guarantee that referendum if you didn't have a referendum of House of
:34:00. > :34:03.Commons seats. I won't become Prime Minister unless I can guarantee that
:34:04. > :34:13.in ad referendum will be held. There's a good reason for this. The
:34:14. > :34:15.British public have not had a say since 1975 and yet we have the
:34:16. > :34:19.Maastricht Treaty, the Lisbon Treaty, the Nice Treaty, the
:34:20. > :34:24.Amsterdam Treaty, you can't help people in an organisation against
:34:25. > :34:28.their will, and now it's right that this renegotiation, this referendum,
:34:29. > :34:32.and that people have their say. I think it's right to have a
:34:33. > :34:34.renegotiation first. There are changes we can make this
:34:35. > :34:40.organisation to improve it and improve our membership of it. OK.
:34:41. > :34:44.There is only one party which actually has a plan to change Europe
:34:45. > :34:53.and allow people to have a say. And it is not UKIP. Labour and Liberal
:34:54. > :34:58.Democrats don't want to give you a referendum but the Conservatives
:34:59. > :35:02.will. You know the EU very well and how negotiations can drag on and
:35:03. > :35:05.drag on and drag on. You're not going to be sucked into a position
:35:06. > :35:09.where you can't come back in 2017 and say, I know I promised you a
:35:10. > :35:14.referendum that you have to wait another year. We will have a
:35:15. > :35:19.referendum whether or not I have successfully renegotiated. I believe
:35:20. > :35:22.I will be successful because others in Europe need to change to the
:35:23. > :35:29.European Union. The euro currency needs change because it needs a
:35:30. > :35:36.banking union, a fiscal union, so we are legitimate to ask for our
:35:37. > :35:38.changes and other leaders in Europe including Angela Merkel in Germany
:35:39. > :35:42.are not rejecting out of hand what Britain are saying, but saying we
:35:43. > :35:45.can discuss these issues and see what we can do. I think the
:35:46. > :35:50.reception from European leaders for what I have said and business
:35:51. > :35:55.leaders, many of whom are keen we stay in Europe, have been very
:35:56. > :35:58.positive. Looking ahead in your diary, have you got a date in 2017
:35:59. > :36:05.when you have the referendum will take place? I haven't, but it will
:36:06. > :36:10.be before the end of 2017. It could be the autumn. I think negotiations
:36:11. > :36:14.I'm undertaking will be successful and we are clear about what we want
:36:15. > :36:19.to achieve. Let's enter benefit tourism. Let's make sure the single
:36:20. > :36:22.market is properly safeguarded. Let's make sure Parliament gets
:36:23. > :36:25.together and blocks unwelcome proposal from the European
:36:26. > :36:29.Commission. Let's make a series of changes to make Europe more
:36:30. > :36:32.flexible, more competitive, these are the sorts of things I want to
:36:33. > :36:39.see. I have set them out in different places. Perhaps the most
:36:40. > :36:42.important is getting Britain out of the clause which says the European
:36:43. > :36:48.Union must be committed to an ever closer union. I don't accept that. I
:36:49. > :36:51.want to come back to this by want to be very clear that if you have this
:36:52. > :36:55.negotiation and you don't get what you want, you will each party into
:36:56. > :36:59.that referendum saying we have to leave Europe, it's no longer worth
:37:00. > :37:02.it? You won't sit on the fence. I'm confident I will achieve the
:37:03. > :37:05.objectives I have set out a knife in the right way to go into a
:37:06. > :37:15.negotiation is of confidence in a positive nation that nature, and I
:37:16. > :37:19.want to see Britain stayed in a reformed Europe. I will recommend
:37:20. > :37:26.the changes, I believe we should stay in this. If you haven't got
:37:27. > :37:30.those changes? You can't be sure. I have a very positive optimistic plan
:37:31. > :37:35.for this country. We have turned around Britain's economy. 1.5
:37:36. > :37:40.million more people in work, cut the deficit. Britain is growing faster
:37:41. > :37:45.than any other G-7 country, faster than America, we've shown we can
:37:46. > :37:50.make changes and I'm upbeat and optimistic about what Britain can
:37:51. > :37:53.achieve in terms of the economy and about our place in Europe. We have a
:37:54. > :37:57.plan and not the most important thing in politics, to show to people
:37:58. > :38:03.we have a clear plan for the economy, for the future. One last
:38:04. > :38:08.gentle and applied go, in that referendum, you will tell people to
:38:09. > :38:14.vote yes or no. You won't sit on the fence. Of course not. Will a cabinet
:38:15. > :38:21.have a free vote in the Conservative Party? The whole of the Conservative
:38:22. > :38:24.government, more than half, are all committed to this plan for a
:38:25. > :38:29.renegotiation and a referendum. We are all convinced it is possible to
:38:30. > :38:38.achieve these changes. We are going for those changes and will act on
:38:39. > :38:43.them. You mentioned the importance of getting out of ever closer union
:38:44. > :38:46.of Europe, the original founding Treaty of Rome would trade the whole
:38:47. > :38:52.thing. Do you think you can start again and read that up? Du think the
:38:53. > :38:55.EU will allow that to happen? That essentially doesn't apply to Britain
:38:56. > :39:02.and the Treaty is made clear it is an applied to Britain. I think if
:39:03. > :39:06.you go back... It'll be an addendum to the Treaty of Rome? Some other
:39:07. > :39:10.things require treaty change and that will be one of them. There was
:39:11. > :39:13.sent in our country which I understand in many ways ship that we
:39:14. > :39:19.wanted to be part of the single market, part of an organisation
:39:20. > :39:26.where nation states cooperate. We do not want to be part of a country
:39:27. > :39:29.called Europe. I understand that. It's not just symbolic because
:39:30. > :39:35.actually, the concept of ever closer union in forms so much about the
:39:36. > :39:39.European Union does. It's an optimistic outlook because UKIP are
:39:40. > :39:42.saying that at the barriers, we can't succeed and compete in the
:39:43. > :39:51.modern world. Let's give up on Europe altogether. We are the only
:39:52. > :39:58.party with a very clear view. Let's move on. You also mentioned an end
:39:59. > :40:02.to benefit tourism. The EU has more or less accepted a three month
:40:03. > :40:05.moratorium on people coming into this country before they can claim
:40:06. > :40:10.benefits. The organisations like migration watch of said five years
:40:11. > :40:17.before people can claim benefits. Is that the kind of thing in concrete
:40:18. > :40:22.terms you want? We need to make sure that the freedom to move to work is
:40:23. > :40:25.about that, to go and get a job, not to claim benefit for them I would
:40:26. > :40:31.like to see longer periods in terms of before you're allowed to claim
:40:32. > :40:40.benefits. How much? Certainly longer than what we have today. Several
:40:41. > :40:44.years? Today, if you travel and work from another European country into
:40:45. > :40:48.Britain, you can then claim child benefit and other benefits for your
:40:49. > :40:52.family back home, even though they are not living in the UK and going
:40:53. > :40:56.to UK schools and all the rest of it. Under the current rules, it
:40:57. > :40:59.seems extremely difficult if not impossible to change that. I haven't
:41:00. > :41:05.met anybody who thinks that the sensible thing. That's a big change.
:41:06. > :41:07.On the general principle of the free movement of people, Nigel Farage
:41:08. > :41:14.talk about 400 million people could come here, you have no proposals to
:41:15. > :41:19.end the free movement of people? I think it's important and needs to be
:41:20. > :41:23.returned to the original concept, which was freedom to be able to go
:41:24. > :41:28.and work in another country. Many British citizens go and work in
:41:29. > :41:31.other European countries. Many Europeans work here. Freedom to go
:41:32. > :41:36.and work in another country, that's one thing. What we have seen
:41:37. > :41:39.recently something else. Free movement of people would stay after
:41:40. > :41:43.the referendum in the way you have described? Let me turn to something
:41:44. > :41:48.else. It's related to that, the expansion of the EU. The board is
:41:49. > :41:53.always moving east and Britain have been among the countries supporting
:41:54. > :42:00.the accession of Turkey to the EU. You want longer transitional
:42:01. > :42:03.controls. They are just transitional controls so David Cameron could
:42:04. > :42:07.negotiate this deal successfully, have a successful referendum and
:42:08. > :42:10.then a few years down the line, everybody currently working in
:42:11. > :42:15.Turkey free to come and work here. I have argued clearly we need longer
:42:16. > :42:20.transitional controls and possibly transitional controls on a totally
:42:21. > :42:23.different basis. You get these big migrate free flow is when you have
:42:24. > :42:31.countries with different levels of income so the massive movement there
:42:32. > :42:38.was from Poland recently was based on the fact that the income levels
:42:39. > :42:40.were so different so you could have transitional influxes. Cedar at the
:42:41. > :42:45.freedom to move and get a job in another country until your level of
:42:46. > :42:52.income per capita is at a certain level, a way of avoiding some of the
:42:53. > :42:56.difficulties we had in the past. Is that doable? Yes, because all new
:42:57. > :43:01.countries joining the European Union have to be agreed by unanimity, so
:43:02. > :43:08.you have a block, Claire say about that issue. And again, I am rightly
:43:09. > :43:13.responding to what is happening in Europe in recent years -- clear
:43:14. > :43:20.faith. After 2004, about a million people moved from Eastern Europe to
:43:21. > :43:28.Britain, about 700,000, which has changed. It's changed our culture,
:43:29. > :43:31.and it is right... For better or worse? A lot of people are continued
:43:32. > :43:35.a lot in terms of working but I think it's absolutely right to grip
:43:36. > :43:42.this issue and have a plan for sorting it out. Let me make one last
:43:43. > :43:46.point. I think the other parties are forgetting that immigration policy
:43:47. > :43:50.is meaningless on its own. It's got to be accompanied by welfare reform
:43:51. > :43:54.so it pays for people in our own country to work rather than not work
:43:55. > :44:00.and it's got to be accompanied by robust educational reform so we are
:44:01. > :44:03.producing people who have got all of the skills necessary to compete in
:44:04. > :44:06.today's world and what you can see with this government is a long-term
:44:07. > :44:11.economic plan which includes schools and skills being the best in Europe
:44:12. > :44:18.for young people and also, a welfare revolution. Which is tougher? It
:44:19. > :44:23.already is. Some people would say tough, but actually, there's a very
:44:24. > :44:27.compassionate side to this. We are seeing around 100 people a week
:44:28. > :44:32.coming off benefits and into work, simply because of the welfare cap
:44:33. > :44:37.because it is working in terms of encouraging people to go out and
:44:38. > :44:44.work. And provide stability. I want to concentrate on Europe. You said
:44:45. > :44:53.you'd Britain to be forced join the euro of the Maastricht Treaty but
:44:54. > :44:56.there's no way we could. I sit in these European Council meetings with
:44:57. > :45:00.my 27 fellow heads of state and government and I've lost count of
:45:01. > :45:03.the times that it is stated by one or other member or indeed by the
:45:04. > :45:08.European Commission notes that the euro is the currency of the European
:45:09. > :45:12.Union and I keep saying, it is for some of you full it is in for some
:45:13. > :45:16.of us, and Britain, if I'm Prime Minister Erdogan will never join the
:45:17. > :45:20.euro. We should keep the pound as our currency, which gives
:45:21. > :45:25.flexibility. It's in our national interest. It's very important, as
:45:26. > :45:30.the euro zone changes and has new rules and regulations, we absolutely
:45:31. > :45:34.make clear you can be a full member of the European Union with all of
:45:35. > :45:37.your rights but not in the euro zone and the single market needs to be
:45:38. > :45:46.properly protected so this is actually again not a strawman very
:45:47. > :45:51.important. What about Britain's contributions?
:45:52. > :45:58.You have done a deal, you are not going to pick that, are you? No, I
:45:59. > :46:05.am confident. People said we would never cut the budget, we did that,
:46:06. > :46:14.and I also got us out of the Eurozone bailout funds. People can
:46:15. > :46:23.see a track record of the changes in Europe. What are the red lines on
:46:24. > :46:28.contributions? We want to embed this budget deal that was agreed.
:46:29. > :46:34.Interestingly UKIP MPs in Parliament voted against it. Elections are an
:46:35. > :46:37.opportunity to register a message or a protest but we are looking at
:46:38. > :46:40.sending men and women to the European Parliament to stand up for
:46:41. > :46:47.this country and that's why I want people to send Conservatives there.
:46:48. > :46:51.A new Parliamentary veto, that would apply to all parliaments, able to
:46:52. > :46:58.veto any European commission proposals? This is known as the red
:46:59. > :47:02.card system where European national parliaments can club together and
:47:03. > :47:08.say about a particular proposal, we don't want that. So you would have
:47:09. > :47:12.to get support from the German or French parliaments? We would have to
:47:13. > :47:21.work out the exact numbers we require in order to blocked
:47:22. > :47:29.proposals. Is there anything else on your agenda? We have managed to stop
:47:30. > :47:36.some parts of the working time directive, but there are more things
:47:37. > :47:41.like that. Some will say why should there be an uneven playing field on
:47:42. > :47:47.these matters? The working Time directive is part of that, you can
:47:48. > :47:53.pick this and that but this is going too far? The Eurozone countries need
:47:54. > :47:57.change and Britain is happy to agree to that change as long as we can
:47:58. > :48:02.make the broader changes to the European Union as well. Britain
:48:03. > :48:07.brings a huge amount of the European Union. We are big, free trading
:48:08. > :48:13.economy with links all over the world. When we are discussing the
:48:14. > :48:16.future of Ukraine, or Burma, Britain has got great strength and power
:48:17. > :48:22.that it brings to those discussions. I think people
:48:23. > :48:28.recognise, as Jose Manuel Barroso said last week, there are things we
:48:29. > :48:33.can bring to the table. I think some people will be saying, let him
:48:34. > :48:38.negotiate that, but I need to keep my foot on the Prime Minister's
:48:39. > :48:44.neck. I need to vote UKIP to put pressure on him, that is a logical
:48:45. > :48:53.thing to do, isn't it? In Europe, we need a strong Conservative minister
:48:54. > :49:00.that will be taken seriously by our European partners. The problem with
:49:01. > :49:08.sending Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs is that they don't want change,
:49:09. > :49:12.and members of UKIP are not taken seriously. If you want to change,
:49:13. > :49:19.you need to vote for change and I have this clear plan that I can
:49:20. > :49:22.deliver. If you decided to Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca was not in the
:49:23. > :49:29.interests of this country, could you stop it? Firstly I would speak out
:49:30. > :49:33.very clearly. I think it is right to engage and get stuck in with these
:49:34. > :49:39.companies to make sure we get good guarantees and the best deal for
:49:40. > :49:46.Britain. Which you haven't yet. We have made good progress. Frankly it
:49:47. > :49:49.has been instructive how different politicians have reacted. As soon as
:49:50. > :50:00.I heard this happening, I asked Cabinet ministers to engage with
:50:01. > :50:09.AstraZeneca and Pfizer. You engaged more with Pfizer. That is not the
:50:10. > :50:12.case. Ministers spoke to AstraZeneca before Pfizer. Don't underestimate
:50:13. > :50:17.what they have said, for example making sure that 20% of their
:50:18. > :50:22.research and development jobs will be in the UK. I want more but it is
:50:23. > :50:27.interesting that the Labour leader's reaction, when asked to
:50:28. > :50:33.engage with Pfizer, he said he was too busy because he wanted to stand
:50:34. > :50:43.on the sidelines and score political points. A lot looking at Pfizer's
:50:44. > :50:54.record will say that is a good thing too. They are praying mantis. Can
:50:55. > :50:59.you stop it? There will be a report to Parliament, but I will do
:51:00. > :51:04.whatever is right for Britain. I will always stand up for British
:51:05. > :51:08.jobs, science, research and development, but it is important to
:51:09. > :51:13.make this point which is that Britain benefits massively by being
:51:14. > :51:19.an economy that is open to overseas investment. Think of Jaguar Land
:51:20. > :51:24.Rover bought by the Indians, it has created 9000 jobs in the Midlands
:51:25. > :51:28.since I have been Prime Minister. Companies like AstraZeneca benefit
:51:29. > :51:35.by being able to go into other countries. Don't think there is some
:51:36. > :51:39.pull up the drawbridge... Still on the subject of efficiency and so
:51:40. > :51:44.forth, there have been proposals for a change in the law on public sector
:51:45. > :51:49.strikes to raise the bar for the number of people voting. Is this
:51:50. > :51:53.something you are attracted by? Yes, I think in the essential
:51:54. > :52:01.services like the London Underground, the pain caused to
:52:02. > :52:05.people trying to get to work, caused by the strikes, often supported by a
:52:06. > :52:10.small percentage of people who work the London Underground, I think it
:52:11. > :52:16.is hugely damaging. The time has come to set a threshold in strike
:52:17. > :52:20.ballots. It is not something I can achieve in a coalition government,
:52:21. > :52:25.it will be in our manifesto. There has been a row in the papers between
:52:26. > :52:32.Michael Gove and his colleagues about school budgets, is the
:52:33. > :52:36.Coalition going through a really bad for year itch now? The Coalition
:52:37. > :52:40.works well at delivering the long term economic plan, and on education
:52:41. > :52:47.and I'm happy to be judged on the record of what we have done. 250,000
:52:48. > :52:52.fewer children in failing schools, more highly qualified teachers going
:52:53. > :52:56.into schools, a real war on raising standards that you can see across
:52:57. > :53:01.the pitch. On the specific issue of this story, we are spending ?5
:53:02. > :53:07.billion on new school places, twice what Labour spent in the previous
:53:08. > :53:18.four years. How do you feel about a senior Cabinet Minister
:53:19. > :53:25.disrespecting Michael Gove? You get these stories in newspapers but let
:53:26. > :53:28.me make this point, free schools are an excellent innovation and two
:53:29. > :53:34.thirds of the first three schools got good or excellent ratings from
:53:35. > :53:38.Ofsted. Thank you for joining us. I'm afraid we have to move on now.
:53:39. > :53:42.Now over to Katherine for the news headlines. David Cameron has
:53:43. > :53:46.reiterated his guarantee that he will not become Prime Minister after
:53:47. > :53:51.the next general election unless he can deliver in in-out referendum on
:53:52. > :53:54.Europe by 2017. He said he was confident he could achieve a
:53:55. > :54:00.successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU
:54:01. > :54:04.including an exemption from the aim of ever closer union.
:54:05. > :54:08.Voting is under way in eastern Ukraine, in a referendum on
:54:09. > :54:11.independence for the Donetsk region. The referendum has gone ahead
:54:12. > :54:15.despite calls earlier in the week from Russia's President Putin for it
:54:16. > :54:18.to be postponed. The Ukrainian government and the international
:54:19. > :54:23.community have said the vote is illegal. That's all from me. The
:54:24. > :54:27.next news is on BBC One at one o'clock. Back to Andrew in a moment.
:54:28. > :54:37.First, a look at what's coming up immediately after this programme. We
:54:38. > :54:45.will be in London at ten o'clock, debating zero hour contracts, races
:54:46. > :54:52.in the Church of England, and men - are dads pulling their weight? The
:54:53. > :54:57.Prime Minister is still here and Christiane Amanpour and David
:54:58. > :55:05.Aaronovitch have returned. Are going to have British troops
:55:06. > :55:08.involved in Nigeria, Prime Minister? We have offered to send out a team
:55:09. > :55:14.to work alongside the bigger American team going out there. We
:55:15. > :55:19.stand ready to do anything more that the Nigerians would want. We cannot
:55:20. > :55:23.just pile in and do whatever we would like. It is immensely
:55:24. > :55:28.complicated because they are in this deep area of jungle that is three
:55:29. > :55:34.times the size of Wales but we will do what we can. We were mentioning
:55:35. > :55:40.the Michelle Obama moment that has gone around the world. This has gone
:55:41. > :55:48.viral, bring back our girls, and it is because of this that the world
:55:49. > :55:55.viral, bring back our girls, and it don't know if you would like to hold
:55:56. > :55:59.this and join the campaign? I think one of the things that really
:56:00. > :56:11.matters is that we recognise this is not just a problem in Nigeria. We
:56:12. > :56:17.are seeing this violent extremist Islamism in Africa, parts of the
:56:18. > :56:24.Middle East, and even here in the UK. And targeting women and girls,
:56:25. > :56:29.which is particularly frightening. There are circumstances in which we
:56:30. > :56:34.might use British troops to help, if we were asked to. That is unlikely
:56:35. > :56:38.but we have worked with Nigerians in the past in hostage rescue
:56:39. > :56:47.operations were special forces have helped and advised and the rest of
:56:48. > :56:52.it. I say to President Jonathan, if asked we will see what we can do.
:56:53. > :56:57.British helpers and advisers have asked we will see what we can do.
:56:58. > :57:03.been working with Nigerian police and military on other issues so they
:57:04. > :57:08.know us, they have worked with us. We have run out of time, I'm afraid.
:57:09. > :57:13.Do join me again at the same time next week on BBC One. I'll be
:57:14. > :57:16.talking to the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and that doyenne of
:57:17. > :57:20.celebrity interviewers, Lynn Barber. So, the Andrew Marr Show. Lots of
:57:21. > :57:23.wind. But this morning, lots still to come. For 50 years, Sir James
:57:24. > :57:26.Galway's playing has helped popularise classical flute music
:57:27. > :57:28.around the world. Known as "the man with the golden flute", he's
:57:29. > :57:32.performed for popes, princes, presidents, and of course prime
:57:33. > :57:33.ministers. His great body of recordings has just been re-issued
:57:34. > :57:39.together in recordings has just been re-issued
:57:40. > :57:44.time - 71 CDs, no less. We leave you now with Sir James and Lady Galway
:57:45. > :57:50.and Schultze's Sonata for Two Flutes. Goodbye.