24/02/2017

:00:16. > :00:16.Hello, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

:00:17. > :00:20.A Conservative win in the Copeland by-election in Cumbria.

:00:21. > :00:23.The Tories beat labour in an area they have held since the 1930s.

:00:24. > :00:24.New MP Trudy Harrison called it historic.

:00:25. > :00:33.What has happened here tonight is a truly historical event. You would

:00:34. > :00:39.have to go back more than a century to find an example of the governing

:00:40. > :00:44.party taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like

:00:45. > :00:46.this. And in Stoke on Trent Central

:00:47. > :00:48.labour Gareth Snell beat Ukip's Paul Nuttall to hold the seat

:00:49. > :00:52.known as the capital of Brexit. We will have all the political

:00:53. > :01:01.reaction to both by-elections. The morning after the night before

:01:02. > :01:05.and a massive boost for Theresa May while in Stoke, a crunch question

:01:06. > :01:08.for Ukip. Are they on the ropes after they failed to beat Labour in

:01:09. > :01:12.this big Brexit seat? Remember these scenes

:01:13. > :01:14.as Leicester City defied odds of 5000-1 to become

:01:15. > :01:19.Premier League winners. Well, just nine months later

:01:20. > :01:23.the club has sacked their manager Claudio Ranieri in a decision

:01:24. > :01:25.they say was "painful but necessary" as results just

:01:26. > :01:32.weren't good enough. Red carpets are being rolled

:01:33. > :01:35.out ahead of the 89th We will be getting all the Oscars

:01:36. > :01:40.gossip from LA and chatting with showbiz columnist Perez Hilton

:01:41. > :01:42.about all the goings Hello, welcome to the programme,

:01:43. > :01:58.we're live until 11 this morning. We are going to talk to some

:01:59. > :02:01.of our Leicester City super fans who made diaries for us

:02:02. > :02:05.about their beloved club and what they think about the man

:02:06. > :02:08.they thought was a hero being sacked Do get in touch on all the stories

:02:09. > :02:15.we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:02:16. > :02:18.and if you text, you will be charged the words of new Conservative MP

:02:19. > :02:26.Trudy Harrison after winning the Labour seat of Copeland in last

:02:27. > :02:29.night's by-election. It's the first gain

:02:30. > :02:34.by a governing party since 1982. In the night's other result Labour

:02:35. > :02:38.held on to Stoke Central, with Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

:02:39. > :02:41.finishing in second place. Our Political Correspondent Tom

:02:42. > :02:45.Bateman sent us this report. Harrison, Trudy Lynne,

:02:46. > :02:49.the Conservative Party candidate, Voters here had chosen a Labour MP

:02:50. > :03:00.for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic

:03:01. > :03:03.night as the Conservatives took What has happened here tonight

:03:04. > :03:11.is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

:03:12. > :03:15.than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:03:16. > :03:19.from the opposition party Labour had said the vote

:03:20. > :03:28.was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat,

:03:29. > :03:30.their departing candidate The first time a Conservative has

:03:31. > :03:37.represented the area But serious questions for Labour

:03:38. > :03:45.under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move

:03:46. > :03:48.of visiting a by-election seat It was a hard-fought campaign over

:03:49. > :03:55.nuclear jobs and hospital services. The result leaves Labour

:03:56. > :04:02.assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news

:04:03. > :04:04.for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another

:04:05. > :04:07.traditional seat for the party. They held on with

:04:08. > :04:10.a reduced majority. This by-election was a test for Ukip

:04:11. > :04:14.in a working-class area that voted It just managed second place,

:04:15. > :04:20.but did increase its vote share. This seat was, what,

:04:21. > :04:30.number 72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know,

:04:31. > :04:41.we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation

:04:42. > :04:43.for Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn promised

:04:44. > :04:48.he would reconnect with voters. He may have to try in spite

:04:49. > :04:50.of futher opposition Our political correspondent

:04:51. > :05:02.Iain Watson is in Copeland, and our political guru Norman Smith

:05:03. > :05:11.is in Stoke. Ian first of all in Copeland, what

:05:12. > :05:18.is your analysis of the implications of this result? Yes, not just my

:05:19. > :05:22.analysis that talking to Labour MPs who have been campaigning here, the

:05:23. > :05:26.one thing they have said time and again is Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

:05:27. > :05:32.has come up on prompted on the doorstep. When I say Labour MPs, as

:05:33. > :05:38.you will note 85% of his own MPs voted for no confidence in him but I

:05:39. > :05:41.am talking about people on the left of the Labour Party, some of them

:05:42. > :05:46.have worked very closely with Jeremy Corbyn. They said there is no point

:05:47. > :05:50.in pretending to you that this is not the case. Labour says there are

:05:51. > :05:54.reasons why it did so badly here. Tom Bateman has talked about the

:05:55. > :05:59.historical nature of this. But this is a swing of almost 7% from the

:06:00. > :06:04.opposition party to the governing party. Nothing like that have

:06:05. > :06:14.happened at least since 1982, possibly since 1960. If that

:06:15. > :06:17.happened across the country, neighbour already 100 seats behind,

:06:18. > :06:19.the Conservatives would probably lose around another 50 seats. Labour

:06:20. > :06:23.say that the Conservatives put that misinformation about the nuclear

:06:24. > :06:27.industry. Sellafield is the biggest employer in this constituency. But

:06:28. > :06:32.Jeremy Corbyn's opponents say that as an excuse and not a reason. The

:06:33. > :06:37.official Labour Party policy is pro-nuclear. Jeremy Corbyn said he

:06:38. > :06:41.was in favour of new nuclear so the bigger question for Jeremy Corbyn is

:06:42. > :06:46.if he is saying that he believes in the nuclear industry, why don't they

:06:47. > :06:49.trust him when he says it? That question of trust will be hanging

:06:50. > :06:54.over the leadership. I don't expect him to throw in the towel because of

:06:55. > :06:59.this result, I simply expect pressure on him to increase. And

:07:00. > :07:06.Norman in Stoke, defeat for Ukip, what does it mean for Paul Nuttall?

:07:07. > :07:11.A very good question. People will be asking what future for Paul Nuttall

:07:12. > :07:15.and what future for Ukip? This was a seat which should have been an

:07:16. > :07:20.absolute plum seat for Ukip. It was probably one of the biggest

:07:21. > :07:26.pro-Brexit seats in the country. It was a traditional working-class

:07:27. > :07:29.Labour seat, the sort of seat where they said Wright, we will go after

:07:30. > :07:32.these seats, this is where we can really capitalise. In the event they

:07:33. > :07:38.have made almost zilch progress. Their vote went up 2%, hardly

:07:39. > :07:42.anything at all. As for Mr Nuttall himself, he suffered a right old

:07:43. > :07:47.roughhouse of a campaign and he sort of scuttled out of here with his

:07:48. > :07:50.tail between his legs I think. The problem they face is where do they

:07:51. > :07:56.go now? If they can't make any inroads here, where do they make

:07:57. > :08:01.inroads? Inevitably, people will argue now we have Brexit, now we

:08:02. > :08:05.have Nigel Farage has gone, now Theresa May has sort of shifted the

:08:06. > :08:10.Tory party onto a lot of Ukip territory, what is the point in

:08:11. > :08:13.Ukip? I think they will face some very tough questions about whether

:08:14. > :08:20.they are actually on the cusp of steady decline. Norman, thank you.

:08:21. > :08:26.We will speak to the Ukip party chairman and also some MPs about

:08:27. > :08:29.their take on what has happened in the by-election. Let's catch up with

:08:30. > :08:30.the rest of the news. Annita is in the BBC Newsroom

:08:31. > :08:33.with a summary of the rest Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:08:34. > :08:37.an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

:08:38. > :08:39.in the red. The figure represents a hefty

:08:40. > :08:41.increase on the ?2 billion loss the bank reported last

:08:42. > :08:44.year and is one of the group's biggest since its Government

:08:45. > :08:46.bailout in 2008. Iraqi security forces have

:08:47. > :08:56.recaptured Mosul airport, IS continued to fire mortars

:08:57. > :09:00.at the airport from further inside the city after losing

:09:01. > :09:04.the ground to the army. The east and much of

:09:05. > :09:06.the south-west of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked manager

:09:07. > :09:11.Claudio Ranieri just nine months after he led the club's to its first

:09:12. > :09:20.Premier League title. The Foxes are only one point

:09:21. > :09:34.above the relegation zone. Lester's board said the change was

:09:35. > :09:46.painful but highly necessary. Malaysian police say the highly

:09:47. > :09:48.toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face

:09:49. > :09:51.of Kim Jong Nam - the murdered half-brother

:09:52. > :09:53.of North Korea's leader. VX is an extremely toxic Chemical

:09:54. > :09:55.warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women

:09:56. > :09:59.briefly holding something over Kim Jong Nam's face

:10:00. > :10:01.while he was preparing to board a flight at

:10:02. > :10:03.Kuala Lumpur airport last week. Our correspondent Rupert

:10:04. > :10:05.Wingfield Hayes has more. They say they found traces of this

:10:06. > :10:08.VX nerve agent on those swabs, and that is a very, very serious

:10:09. > :10:12.thing to have found out, because VX is considered to be the most toxic

:10:13. > :10:14.nerve agent ever invented. It was actually invented

:10:15. > :10:16.in Britain in the 1950s. Large quantities of it were produced

:10:17. > :10:20.in America and in the Soviet Union during the Cold War,

:10:21. > :10:22.but it has subsequently been banned under UN Chemical Convention,

:10:23. > :10:25.and so the fact that it's been used here in this killing,

:10:26. > :10:28.makes a whole new level Donald Trump says he wants to expand

:10:29. > :10:35.America's nuclear arsenal. In his first comments on the issue

:10:36. > :10:38.since taking office, Mr Trump said it would be

:10:39. > :10:42."wonderful" if no nation had nuclear arms, but otherwise the US must

:10:43. > :10:47.be "top of the pack". Police investigating the escape

:10:48. > :10:49.of a convicted murderer from custody have arrested two people

:10:50. > :10:51.on suspicion of Merseyside Police detained

:10:52. > :10:56.a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman in Liverpool in connection

:10:57. > :11:00.with Shaun Walmsley's escape. Walmsley went on the run when two

:11:01. > :11:03.armed men confronted prison officers guarding him at a hospital

:11:04. > :11:08.on Tuesday afternoon. More universities in England will be

:11:09. > :11:12.soon be able to offer degree courses which last for just two years

:11:13. > :11:15.under new plans. In return they will be able

:11:16. > :11:18.to increase annual tuition fees to more than ?13,000 -

:11:19. > :11:21.although the overall cost of a degree will still

:11:22. > :11:26.be capped at ?27,000. The clear-up continues this morning

:11:27. > :11:29.after Storm Doris battered much of the UK leaving one woman dead

:11:30. > :11:34.after being hit by flying debris. Winds of up to 94mph caused power

:11:35. > :11:38.cuts and travel chaos as flights were grounded

:11:39. > :11:42.and train services disrupted. Drivers are being warned to be

:11:43. > :11:45.wary of ice on the roads in Scotland, Northern Ireland,

:11:46. > :11:55.and North West England. It's been discovered bumblebees can

:11:56. > :11:58.teach each other how to score goals with a tiny ball,

:11:59. > :12:00.displaying a learning ability They surprised scientists by working

:12:01. > :12:04.out how to obtain a food reward In the experiment, the bees

:12:05. > :12:08.were placed on a platform and had to roll a yellow ball to a specific

:12:09. > :12:11.location in order to Those that observed the success

:12:12. > :12:16.of other bees were better at learning the task than those that

:12:17. > :12:21.didn't. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:12:22. > :12:36.News - more at 9.30. I absolutely love that story! That

:12:37. > :12:41.is so cool. Vinnie says I am an Arsenal supporter and the sacking of

:12:42. > :12:45.Claudio Ranieri is wrong. Blame the players who got big-money contracts

:12:46. > :12:53.and cars. What do you think about him being sacked just nine months

:12:54. > :12:58.after Leicester City defied the odds to win the Premiership. Let us know

:12:59. > :13:00.your thoughts. We will weave them into our discussions. We will talk

:13:01. > :13:03.to our super fans later. Do get in touch with us

:13:04. > :13:06.throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:13:07. > :13:09.and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport now

:13:10. > :13:20.with Hugh Woozencroft - Hero to zero in such a short period

:13:21. > :13:22.of time? Yes, that is right.

:13:23. > :13:25.The story covering every single back page today is of course

:13:26. > :13:27.the sacking of Claudio Ranieri as Leicester City manager.

:13:28. > :13:29.It comes with the current Premier League Champions

:13:30. > :13:32.sitting 17th in the table, just one point above the drop zone.

:13:33. > :13:35.But after their miraculous season last year, the club now see survival

:13:36. > :13:38.as its primary target, despite still being in the European

:13:39. > :13:41.Let's speak now to BBC Leicester's football commentator

:13:42. > :13:42.Ian Stringer, who is outside the

:13:43. > :13:54.Ian, this seems to have been reacted to with a lot of shock. What have

:13:55. > :14:00.you made of it and the fans you have spoken to? Morning. It is a pretty

:14:01. > :14:04.quiet King Power Stadium over my shoulder this morning. People have

:14:05. > :14:08.been winding down their windows and singing Claudio Ranieri's name. You

:14:09. > :14:12.mentioned in the introduction hero to zero but he will always have the

:14:13. > :14:16.hero status here after lifting the trophy which the club had not won in

:14:17. > :14:32.132 years. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the

:14:33. > :14:35.Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome

:14:36. > :14:38.their heroes led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this

:14:39. > :14:40.club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a

:14:41. > :14:45.motion in the city and there is upset. There is some anger as well.

:14:46. > :14:54.Cloudy over is still a hero in many people's eyes. -- Claudio is still a

:14:55. > :14:58.hero. Everyone can remember the trophy being hoisted aloft but the

:14:59. > :15:01.search for a new manager begins. There are suggestions today that a

:15:02. > :15:05.breakdown in his relationship with the players was at the heart of this

:15:06. > :15:09.dismissal. What you make of those claims?

:15:10. > :15:17.He clearly had support from... Support from the dressing room was

:15:18. > :15:21.dwindling, that's been quite clear. There have been suggestions for a

:15:22. > :15:28.couple weeks, were they playing for Claudio Ranieri? There are banners

:15:29. > :15:31.here for Wes Morgan, cash but Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy, with

:15:32. > :15:37.champions etched on the side of the stadium. This stadium is wrapped in

:15:38. > :15:40.some of these heroes. Many of those are the senior players you

:15:41. > :15:44.mentioned. I understand the sentiment and the point. Whether

:15:45. > :15:47.there was an irretrievable breakdown of a relationship or not, I'm not

:15:48. > :15:50.sure we will ever know but it was quite clear there were problems in

:15:51. > :15:55.the dressing room and with some of the players and with a relationship

:15:56. > :16:00.with the manager. Were they still playing for Claudio that remains to

:16:01. > :16:07.be seen. The fact remains they were only 2-1 down to Sevilla in the

:16:08. > :16:11.Champions League. This time a few days ago I was at the Apple

:16:12. > :16:15.reflecting on a good 2-1 defeat, they are still in that tie. The

:16:16. > :16:21.Italian has got Leicester City to the last 16 of the Champions League

:16:22. > :16:24.and now has been sacked. Just before you go, just quickly, who are the

:16:25. > :16:31.men being mentioned as a potential replacement? Roberto Mancini's name

:16:32. > :16:40.has been mentioned a lot in the city this morning. The King Power Stadium

:16:41. > :16:44.was built in the early 2000s. Roberto Mancini played four times

:16:45. > :16:49.for the foxes in 2001 in a loan spell. I remember watching himself

:16:50. > :16:52.as a boy, great touch and experienced professional. There is

:16:53. > :16:55.talk he may be the favourite but there are lots of names being

:16:56. > :16:59.bandied around in the city of Leicester. To be honest, we're only

:17:00. > :17:03.just getting over the divorce with Claudio Ranieri, a new relationship

:17:04. > :17:09.seems a long, long way away at the moment. Thank you. We will see what

:17:10. > :17:12.the club decides in the future. Joanna, that is all the sport for

:17:13. > :17:13.now but more on this coming up at ten o'clock.

:17:14. > :17:14.Thank you very much, see you later. The Conservatives have pulled off

:17:15. > :17:17.an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian

:17:18. > :17:20.seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned

:17:21. > :17:25.a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes

:17:26. > :17:27.to Labour's Gillian But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent

:17:28. > :17:34.Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600

:17:35. > :17:43.votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped

:17:44. > :17:46.to become his party's second MP. the former Health Minister

:17:47. > :18:12.and Conservative MP Dr Dan Poulter Dan, a stunning Tory victory, first

:18:13. > :18:20.win by governing party there for many years. What do you put it down

:18:21. > :18:22.to? Certainly it's a very good result for the Conservative Party

:18:23. > :18:27.and a good result for the government. What we have seen is

:18:28. > :18:30.that it's very difficult for a governing party to win a

:18:31. > :18:33.by-election, as you say for the first time in 30 or 40 years this

:18:34. > :18:39.government has managed to achieve that. That is a strong endorsement

:18:40. > :18:44.of Theresa May and a strong endorsement of Trudy Harrison, the

:18:45. > :18:48.candidate who won the election. Was it special circumstances? In a

:18:49. > :18:52.constituency where thousands of jobs depend on the nuclear industry and

:18:53. > :18:56.Jeremy Corbyn's historic opposition to that proved to be a problem for

:18:57. > :19:00.Labour? Well, of course in any by-election

:19:01. > :19:04.there are factors in place. Some of those local factors on some national

:19:05. > :19:08.factors. It's always expected the main opposition does well in

:19:09. > :19:12.national by-elections. That wasn't the case. What this by-election has

:19:13. > :19:16.shown, from what I believe, and what I pick up in my own constituency and

:19:17. > :19:20.elsewhere in the country, is there is a very strong belief in Theresa

:19:21. > :19:25.May as our Prime Minister and that is something that was borne out of

:19:26. > :19:30.this election result today. You see it more as a victory for

:19:31. > :19:36.Theresa May than a vote against Labour and Jeremy Corbyn

:19:37. > :19:39.specifically? Well, certainly... I don't

:19:40. > :19:47.particularly like to pass comment on other political parties... But the

:19:48. > :19:51.politics is won by building a coalition of voters. It's very

:19:52. > :19:55.important that any party that wants to be in government can build a

:19:56. > :20:00.coalition of voters that includes middle ground voters. That's

:20:01. > :20:02.something David did very successfully in considering

:20:03. > :20:06.delivering a Conservative majority at the last election, something

:20:07. > :20:11.Theresa May has achieved. I'm not sure Jeremy Corbyn is appealing to

:20:12. > :20:16.those people outside of the very hard left of the Labour vote. That's

:20:17. > :20:18.something that will prove a real challenge for Labour, if they ever

:20:19. > :20:27.want to become a party of government again. Andrew Green, seven years of

:20:28. > :20:34.austerity under Tory government. Previously coalition government as

:20:35. > :20:38.well. A row in the constituency over the closure of maternity services in

:20:39. > :20:40.hospital and still Labour could not pull it off.

:20:41. > :20:45.Of course, we had a disappointing night here in Copeland at a mixed

:20:46. > :20:50.fixture across the country. Gareth Snell became a new member of

:20:51. > :20:54.Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. But that's not to say that

:20:55. > :21:01.here in Copeland we ended up with the result that we would sooner not

:21:02. > :21:06.have had. But, of course, I've been here since the start of January.

:21:07. > :21:10.What I've seen is one of the most polarised election campaigns that

:21:11. > :21:14.I've ever known, basically centred around two issues. One, as you

:21:15. > :21:19.rightly say, the potential downgrade of NHS services at West Cumberland

:21:20. > :21:24.Hospital. The other was the nuclear industry. We were able to convince

:21:25. > :21:28.people to come out and vote to try and save their NHS services here in

:21:29. > :21:33.West Cumbria, but at the end of the day we weren't able to convince

:21:34. > :21:40.enough people that the Labour Party is a pro-civil nuclear party. Who

:21:41. > :21:46.takes the blame for that? What are the lessons to be learned? Where do

:21:47. > :21:51.you put the problem? Well, the point is we have a job now, to reconnect

:21:52. > :21:56.with communities like Copeland. That is the challenge for the Labour

:21:57. > :22:01.Party going forward... Sorry, looking back to the campaign for a

:22:02. > :22:09.moment. You said that Labour failed to convince voters on the issue of

:22:10. > :22:14.nuclear. Whose fault is that? It was a very heavily fought campaign. It

:22:15. > :22:23.was a vicious campaign in many respects, on both of those different

:22:24. > :22:28.issues. We were unable to convince enough people that the Labour Party

:22:29. > :22:32.not only backs civil nuclear as part of an important energy mix, in order

:22:33. > :22:37.to keep the lights on, but also that the Labour Party was the only party

:22:38. > :22:45.that was committed to using a public equity in order to secure the future

:22:46. > :22:51.jobs at the new power station, chateau Sheba pull-out. Sorry to

:22:52. > :23:00.interrupt again, but the reason... -- should dump a pull-out. The

:23:01. > :23:04.reason it was an issue for the Labour Party is Jeremy Corbyn's

:23:05. > :23:09.leadership and his historic position on this. Does Jeremy Corbyn take the

:23:10. > :23:14.blame for the fact the party lost? Look, this isn't about one person.

:23:15. > :23:18.The point is we've had two years of introspection in the Labour Party

:23:19. > :23:22.with two leadership contest. The last thing the Labour Party needs

:23:23. > :23:28.going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years

:23:29. > :23:31.ahead. What we've got to do is reconnect with communities like

:23:32. > :23:34.Copeland, that's a challenge, but we've got to be able to show we're

:23:35. > :23:40.listening to people here on the ground and that we are building

:23:41. > :23:44.policies ahead of the 2020 general election, and that we are speaking

:23:45. > :23:48.up for working communities, whether it is here in the north-west of

:23:49. > :23:52.England or in the Midlands in Stoke-on-Trent or elsewhere in the

:23:53. > :23:56.country. That is something for Labour Party now has to do. It has

:23:57. > :24:01.to dust itself down after Copeland, we have to look at the success in

:24:02. > :24:06.Stoke and to learn lessons there as well, about how we've seen off Ukip.

:24:07. > :24:16.But we've got to make sure that we are fully reconnected with those

:24:17. > :24:19.communities that we seek to serve. Paul Oakden, chairman of Ukip. 70%

:24:20. > :24:21.of voters in Stoke voted for Brexit. You might have thought Ukip were a

:24:22. > :24:29.shoo-in in the by-election but Labour took it, what went wrong for

:24:30. > :24:32.Ukip? Incorrectly assumed we were clear favourites to win. We thought

:24:33. > :24:36.we had a good chance and we went into yesterday with high hopes and

:24:37. > :24:41.optimism. Sadly, the four week campaign we had wasn't enough to

:24:42. > :24:45.introduce ourselves and our newly dead to the voters in Stoke-on-Trent

:24:46. > :24:48.Central, but we are please coming out of yesterday. Disappointed but

:24:49. > :24:57.pleased we managed to improve on our vote result in 2015... By 2%. 2% is

:24:58. > :25:01.a step forward and not a step back. Given that the last time we fought

:25:02. > :25:05.campaign in Stoke it was pre-referendum, with Nigel Farage as

:25:06. > :25:09.the leader. Both of those things have now come and gone. We have a

:25:10. > :25:16.new leader who has only been in the post for 12 weeks. I thought it was

:25:17. > :25:20.incredibly brave for him to put himself forward as a candidate. We

:25:21. > :25:24.improved on our vote share and our party came together in a way hasn't

:25:25. > :25:27.done for a long time to rally around our candidate and leader, Paul

:25:28. > :25:31.Nuttall. There's a lot to be hopeful for. It's a stepping stone. It was a

:25:32. > :25:36.disappointing night because we thought we might win but it gives us

:25:37. > :25:38.optimism for the future. What about that row over Hillsborough and the

:25:39. > :25:43.false claim he personally knew people died at Hillsborough? How

:25:44. > :25:49.much did that overshadow what happened there and how much does it

:25:50. > :25:51.tarnish him as leader? From Paul Nuttall's perspective it

:25:52. > :25:56.overshadowed a campaign he was looking forward to with optimism and

:25:57. > :26:00.vigour. He took responsibility for something that was put onto his

:26:01. > :26:04.website that he hadn't seen. He took responsibility for that. The person

:26:05. > :26:07.that wrote and published it took responsibility for doing that, too.

:26:08. > :26:13.It was very unfortunate on a very sensitive issue that Paul feels very

:26:14. > :26:18.deeply. That will have had an impact on him. To what extent that impacted

:26:19. > :26:22.on the referendum campaign, who knows? On the doorsteps of Stoke

:26:23. > :26:25.Hillsborough was something mentioned to us very much at all. There were

:26:26. > :26:30.other things people wanted to talk about. Yes, it took something away

:26:31. > :26:33.from our campaign and that was regrettable, but I wouldn't blame

:26:34. > :26:39.that media narrative for costing us the election. Ukip came in second

:26:40. > :26:45.place but actually only 79 votes ahead of the Tories. The Ukip

:26:46. > :26:49.narrative was that Ukip would be representing Labour voters and

:26:50. > :26:53.taking away votes from Labour. You didn't do that. The Tories are now

:26:54. > :27:01.pushing forward with Brexit, which was previously the raison d'etre for

:27:02. > :27:08.four Ukip, what is the next step for Ukip, where does it go as a party?

:27:09. > :27:11.As we've said quite widely this morning, Stoke on Central was a key

:27:12. > :27:14.seat we were looking out with interest in 2015 but there were

:27:15. > :27:18.several other seats we had better hopes for ahead of the general

:27:19. > :27:25.election last time. So why did Paul Nuttall stand there? Why did he

:27:26. > :27:27.staked his reputation and standing now? Because Paul Nuttall believes

:27:28. > :27:30.in leading from the front and that's what he did by making himself a

:27:31. > :27:35.candidate in this election. That's why it was a courageous thing to do

:27:36. > :27:38.and why our party are wholesome in their support of him as a leader

:27:39. > :27:42.this morning. When Paul got back to eye headquarters last night after

:27:43. > :27:47.the count he was greeted by several standing ovations from members. I

:27:48. > :27:52.think you did the right thing by standing and the right thing in this

:27:53. > :27:56.campaign by fighting the campaign it was a very positive campaign. At no

:27:57. > :27:59.point did we say anything negative about the Labour candidate,

:28:00. > :28:05.something I'm proud of. It didn't get as to where we wanted to go but

:28:06. > :28:07.I'm sure next time it will. Thank you all very much indeed for joining

:28:08. > :28:08.us. Iraqi forces continue

:28:09. > :28:13.their advance into Mosul. We'll be hearing from people

:28:14. > :28:19.across the country. And Leicester City manager Claudio

:28:20. > :28:23.Ranieri has been sacked by the club, nine months after leading them

:28:24. > :28:26.to the Premier League title. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:28:27. > :28:35.with a summary of todays news. The Conservatives have won

:28:36. > :28:41.the the Cumbrian seat of Copeland, which had been in Labour's hands

:28:42. > :28:43.for more than 80 years. Trudy Harrison took the seat

:28:44. > :28:46.with a majority of more than 2000. Labour held Stoke Central

:28:47. > :28:48.in the night's other by-election, with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

:28:49. > :28:54.finishing in second place. Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:28:55. > :28:57.an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

:28:58. > :29:00.in the red. The figure represents a hefty

:29:01. > :29:04.increase on the ?2 billion pound loss the bank reported last year

:29:05. > :29:07.and is one of the group's biggest since its Government

:29:08. > :29:10.bailout in 2008. Iraqi forces says they have now

:29:11. > :29:14.moved into west Mosul for the first time, a day after capturing

:29:15. > :29:16.the city's airport from Yesterday's operation

:29:17. > :29:20.took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars

:29:21. > :29:26.at the airport from further from further inside the city,

:29:27. > :29:28.after losing the ground to the army. The east and much of the south-west

:29:29. > :29:31.of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked

:29:32. > :29:34.manager Claudio Ranieri - just nine months after he led

:29:35. > :29:36.the club to the The win was the biggest

:29:37. > :29:41.triumph for the Foxes But the team is currently one place

:29:42. > :29:47.above the relegation zone. Leicester's board said the change

:29:48. > :29:51.was "painful but necessary". Malaysian police say the highly

:29:52. > :29:55.toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face

:29:56. > :29:58.of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half-brother of North Korea's

:29:59. > :30:02.leader. VX is an extremely toxic chemical

:30:03. > :30:05.warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women

:30:06. > :30:09.briefly holding something over Kim Jong-nam's face

:30:10. > :30:12.while he was preparing to board a flight at Kuala Lumpur

:30:13. > :30:18.airport last week. A group of conservation charities

:30:19. > :30:20.is launching its biggest ever recruitment drive to help protect

:30:21. > :30:24.the native red squirrel. A total of 5,000 volunteers

:30:25. > :30:27.are required across England, They will help protect resident

:30:28. > :30:31.squirrel populations. Researchers say the species remains

:30:32. > :30:33.under threat because of disease and competition for food from larger

:30:34. > :30:41.grey squirrels, from north America. That's a summary of the latest

:30:42. > :31:04.BBC News - more at 10. Thank you. Loads of you getting in

:31:05. > :31:07.touch. Someone says I am a season ticket holder for many years at

:31:08. > :31:13.Leicester. I am ashamed of what they have done. Don't blame Claudio,

:31:14. > :31:17.blamed the lazy complacent players for the results. Another says I am

:31:18. > :31:21.very shocked and sad, where is the loyalty? I hope the players feel

:31:22. > :31:25.ashamed. Another said I hate football and even I think the

:31:26. > :31:30.sacking of Claudio Ranieri is wrong. He took a nowhere team to the top

:31:31. > :31:36.and this is how he is treated. Blame the money that went to the players'

:31:37. > :31:40.heads. And Kevin says he deserves to be kept to the end of the season. He

:31:41. > :31:46.and back and a change of manager at this stage of the season is probably

:31:47. > :31:50.less likely to see improvement. Thank you for all of those comments,

:31:51. > :32:02.do keep them coming in. Now more with you.

:32:03. > :32:09.Interestingly, Leicester were one of the richest clubs in Europe. In

:32:10. > :32:12.terms of the money, Claudio Ranieri brought in a lot of that.

:32:13. > :32:14.Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss is the early

:32:15. > :32:16.favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester.

:32:17. > :32:18.It's being reported the club have made an approach

:32:19. > :32:26.for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001.

:32:27. > :32:29.A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress

:32:30. > :32:34.They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked

:32:35. > :32:37.Manchester United will be the only British team

:32:38. > :32:41.French side Catalan Dragons are the new leaders

:32:42. > :32:46.They won 16-14 in a bruising encounter away at Hull FC

:32:47. > :32:49.and there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner

:32:50. > :32:53.Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled

:32:54. > :33:00.out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune.

:33:01. > :33:04.I will be back with more sport just after ten o'clock.

:33:05. > :33:07.See you then. Thank you. Iraqi forces have begun their attack

:33:08. > :33:10.on the western part of Mosul. This is just hours after

:33:11. > :33:12.the significant breakthrough of capturing the city's airport

:33:13. > :33:14.from Islamic State fighters. Capturing the airport was very

:33:15. > :33:17.significant in the push to regain control of the western part

:33:18. > :33:20.of the city. The eastern half was re-taken

:33:21. > :33:23.by government forces last month. After a night heavy of airstrikes,

:33:24. > :33:26.troops are now moving from the surrounding desert

:33:27. > :33:30.and farmland to the city itself. In a moment we'll speak to people

:33:31. > :33:34.in Iraq but before here's the latest on the battle in Mosul and why it

:33:35. > :33:39.matters. They spared no chance to hurt

:33:40. > :33:43.the people, whether physically or She told me that her dream

:33:44. > :33:49.was to eat one piece of bread once again and to live

:33:50. > :34:43.and forget the memories of the war. Beheading was the new ghost,

:34:44. > :34:48.haunting the city for so many There were a lot of rules that

:34:49. > :34:57.you have to obey them, otherwise you are guilty and you may

:34:58. > :35:03.even face death. They are not afraid

:35:04. > :35:06.of what is happening, they are afraid of Isil that can

:35:07. > :36:45.break into their home at any time. My message to the whole world,

:36:46. > :36:51.to the decision-maker of the world, for those who can make a change,

:36:52. > :36:58.please help in liberating the whole Mosul has been

:36:59. > :37:12.suffering for too long. We can now speak to Jumana Mumtaz,

:37:13. > :37:15.an Iraqi blogger based in Baghdad, who has family trapped

:37:16. > :37:19.in Western Mosul, Cengiz Yar, a photojournalist

:37:20. > :37:21.who was with the Iraqi federal police

:37:22. > :37:24.as they took control of the city's airport yesterday

:37:25. > :37:37.and Bruno Geddo from the UNHCR. Thank you very much for joining us.

:37:38. > :37:43.Cengiz Yar, tell us what it was like as control was taken of the airport.

:37:44. > :37:48.There was a lot of incoming and outgoing shelling yesterday. The day

:37:49. > :37:54.before was mainly outgoing. Forces moved in rather quickly. I think

:37:55. > :37:57.more quickly than everyone expected. And there was heavy fighting

:37:58. > :38:02.throughout the day. In the afternoon it seemed to calm down a little bit.

:38:03. > :38:08.And tell us more about what you have been doing as you got to this point.

:38:09. > :38:20.You have been involved in raids on IS sleeper cells in eastern Mosul? I

:38:21. > :38:22.have been covering the Mosul offensive for the past four months.

:38:23. > :38:24.It is wave after wave, as they move further into the city, different

:38:25. > :38:28.challenges that the forces are facing, whether it be helping

:38:29. > :38:35.civilians escape, keeping them safe on dealing with car bombs and IDDs.

:38:36. > :38:40.In the newly recaptured territory, we are seeing security forces trying

:38:41. > :38:45.to find the remaining Isis sleeper cells that had stayed behind of the

:38:46. > :38:52.units retreated into the western areas of the city. Jumana, I said

:38:53. > :38:56.you are a blogger based in Baghdad. You are originally from Mosul and

:38:57. > :39:00.you have family there. Tell us what contact you have been able to have

:39:01. > :39:10.with family there? I tried yesterday to call my relatives there. They

:39:11. > :39:14.were living in the east bank but when the Iraqi offensive started

:39:15. > :39:19.they moved to the West because they thought the situation there would be

:39:20. > :39:32.more stable for them, but actually they are now facing a very hard

:39:33. > :39:39.starvation and actually, it is lower and there is not enough fuel or

:39:40. > :39:49.anything to keep them warm so they burned their furniture. But my

:39:50. > :39:52.relatives also they have been displaced from the east bank to the

:39:53. > :39:56.West Bank so they don't have any furniture and they have nothing to

:39:57. > :40:06.eat any more. They lost their health and also there is no protection in

:40:07. > :40:11.their house. The houses in the old city of Mosul have no protection.

:40:12. > :40:17.They are afraid of Isil that at any moment they can break into their

:40:18. > :40:28.home. We don't know what will happen with the next couple of days or

:40:29. > :40:34.couple of weeks, because it is showing that the battle will take

:40:35. > :40:43.more time. As we talk to you, we are seeing live pictures of the battle

:40:44. > :40:46.for Mosul. Bruno Geddo, there are 650,000 civilians trapped in western

:40:47. > :40:53.Mosul, what are your concerns for them? We have two major concerns.

:40:54. > :41:00.The first one is that we hope to continue to benefit from the

:41:01. > :41:07.commitment of the Iraqi security forces who are upholding

:41:08. > :41:11.international humanitarian law, which means putting civilians at the

:41:12. > :41:15.centre of their operation. This was done in the East successfully,

:41:16. > :41:22.because we had a very manageable outflow in total of 220,000 people,

:41:23. > :41:26.because fighting was carried out with small weapons, not heavy

:41:27. > :41:34.artillery. The destruction of property was limited so civilians

:41:35. > :41:39.did not feel compelled to flee. The West has additional problems because

:41:40. > :41:47.wherein the east of the population was more scattered, in the West,

:41:48. > :41:51.there are areas which are densely populated and the old city is built

:41:52. > :41:58.in a labyrinthine way with narrow alleys. So it may require fighting

:41:59. > :42:03.house by house, hand by hand, on foot rather than going in with

:42:04. > :42:08.armoured vehicles, so this is the first concern. The Iraqi security

:42:09. > :42:13.forces will be able to uphold detection even in a fighting

:42:14. > :42:17.environment which is more complex than in the East. The second problem

:42:18. > :42:23.is by the sheer number of people at risk, possibly more than 700,000, we

:42:24. > :42:31.have a worst-case scenario of 400,000 fleeing. We are planning for

:42:32. > :42:38.250,000. We need more capacity, more space, not only in the East where

:42:39. > :42:49.the existing camps are at capacity, but also in the south, where we are

:42:50. > :42:57.running against the clock to help the additional 10,000 families.

:42:58. > :43:01.Thank you very much indeed, that is Cengiz Yar, Jumana Mumtaz and Bruno

:43:02. > :43:05.Geddo, thank you. We are just getting some breaking news from the

:43:06. > :43:11.Electoral Commission. We are hearing that investigations are being

:43:12. > :43:16.launched into the spending returns in both campaigns in last year's EU

:43:17. > :43:20.referendum. That has been announced by the Electoral Commission which is

:43:21. > :43:22.looking into the spending returns into both of the lead campaigns in

:43:23. > :43:27.the referendum last year. The Welsh football legend

:43:28. > :43:30.Gareth Bale talks to the BBC about football, advice

:43:31. > :43:32.for youngsters and why Nine months ago he was hailed a hero

:43:33. > :43:40.when he took Leicester City It was like a fairy-tale

:43:41. > :43:44.for the Foxes, as they're also known, and for manager Claudio

:43:45. > :43:46.Ranieri. He was sacked by Leicester's

:43:47. > :43:51.board on Thursday The dream has become a nightmare

:43:52. > :43:55.with Leicester City now ranked just But here's a reminder

:43:56. > :44:03.of the club's finest season. Let's start with this,

:44:04. > :44:06.Claudio Ranieri is back. The Tinker Man is the brand-new

:44:07. > :44:09.manager of Leicester City. I don't think you'd have put him

:44:10. > :44:14.at the top of anyone's They're going to be one

:44:15. > :44:18.of seven or eight teams that are going to be down there,

:44:19. > :44:20.scrapping for every point. Leicester City have come back

:44:21. > :44:27.from two goals down. If they finish in the top six

:44:28. > :44:33.this year, they will And that is Vardy's goal in an 11th

:44:34. > :44:42.consecutive league match! They may well be top

:44:43. > :44:53.of the tree at Christmas time. It would be one of the most

:44:54. > :45:05.extraordinary stories of all time. Now Leicester are bound

:45:06. > :45:15.for the Premier League title! When Hazard scored that absolute

:45:16. > :45:18.worldy into the top, I went mental. You're a grown man, you've

:45:19. > :45:25.got tears in your eyes. The impossible dream

:45:26. > :45:30.is now a reality. Are you saying to me,

:45:31. > :45:33."Have they been the best They have blown apart

:45:34. > :45:37.the established order It's the biggest ever sporting

:45:38. > :45:45.achievement in Britain, 2016, in the Premier League,

:45:46. > :46:00.it's the Year of the Fox! The most improbable result meant

:46:01. > :46:08.that Match of the Day host and Leicester fan had a keep

:46:09. > :46:11.a promise to host episode of the new season in his pants,

:46:12. > :46:21.if his side won the Premier League. This morning a very sombre Gary

:46:22. > :46:23.Lineker gave his reaction to the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

:46:24. > :46:26.Well, it's a sign of modern football but what happened last season

:46:27. > :46:28.was truly extraordinary under Claudio Ranieri.

:46:29. > :46:34.I think the lack of gratitude from the owners of the club

:46:35. > :46:36.and who knows who else is involved in such a decision, it

:46:37. > :46:43.Yes, in recent times we have seen a few managers lose their jobs

:46:44. > :46:47.after winning the Premier League, but they were managers of clubs that

:46:48. > :46:51.expected to win titles and spend enough money on their clubs just

:46:52. > :46:55.to, I suppose they can kind of justify that.

:46:56. > :46:58.We have seen it in some of the big clubs in the world,

:46:59. > :47:04.the Real Madrids etc, but for a club like Leicester to win

:47:05. > :47:07.the league last season and the magnificence of that story,

:47:08. > :47:08.and the likeability of that club, especially

:47:09. > :47:11.under Claudio Ranieri, the ultimate gentleman,

:47:12. > :47:17.It takes away from the glory of last season and where is Leicester

:47:18. > :47:19.were hugely popular with everyone right around the world,

:47:20. > :47:22.to do something like this now I think loses a lot

:47:23. > :47:30.That season will remain with us forever and it was truly special.

:47:31. > :47:32.A lot of that was, of course, down to the management.

:47:33. > :47:37.The same guy now can't be considered incapable of doing his job

:47:38. > :47:39.just a few months later, having achieved what was, for me,

:47:40. > :47:44.But for me, I shed a tear last night.

:47:45. > :47:47.I shed a tear for Claudio, I shed a tear for football

:47:48. > :47:58.It is inexplicable to me and it is inexplicable to a lot

:47:59. > :48:03.of football fans who love the game, but I suppose in some ways,

:48:04. > :48:06.you can explain it in terms of a panic decision and, for me,

:48:07. > :48:13.Gary Lineker. How much has changed in nine months?

:48:14. > :48:15.In a moment we'll some reaction from passionate

:48:16. > :48:18.and shocked Leicester fans, and from the former Leicester

:48:19. > :48:19.player Steve Claridge, but first we can speak

:48:20. > :48:22.to John Percy, the Midlands Football reporter from the Daily Telegraph.

:48:23. > :48:29.Why has he gone? I think it's been coming, I really

:48:30. > :48:34.do. Despite our season, remarkable story, the fairy tale, this season

:48:35. > :48:39.has been dreadful. Performances have been or for other team tactics have

:48:40. > :48:43.been bewildering, team tactics have confused the players. I don't think

:48:44. > :48:45.it is a panic issue, since November there have been problems and

:48:46. > :48:50.performances have completely dropped. I understand the outrage

:48:51. > :48:53.and you have to question the timing, after the defeat in Sevilla that

:48:54. > :48:56.felt like a turning point, but I feel it has been coming and they are

:48:57. > :49:02.terrified of being relegated, which is the ultimate fear. We are getting

:49:03. > :49:08.loads and loads of comments via social media from fans. People are

:49:09. > :49:12.criticising the players are not the manager. I can understand that. The

:49:13. > :49:15.players, many of them highly rewarded in the summer for the title

:49:16. > :49:19.win. They have completely dropped off. I'd say there have only been

:49:20. > :49:23.one or two that have maintained the standards from our season. They have

:49:24. > :49:31.to look themselves in the eye. Lots of talks of that. But the things no

:49:32. > :49:37.one will be surprised about is if they play Liverpool on Monday night

:49:38. > :49:40.and when. What about the view of the chairman? The tide family have come

:49:41. > :49:45.in, spent a lot of money and supported the club, the club the

:49:46. > :49:53.24th richest club in Europe, which is amazing. -- the Thai family. But

:49:54. > :49:58.now they have done this which will be unpopular with the fans? Yes, but

:49:59. > :50:03.looking at Twitter last night not as much outrage as perhaps expected.

:50:04. > :50:07.They put a lot of money in. A few years ago they predicted a top six

:50:08. > :50:11.club, relegation wasn't on the menu. They must be feeling awful today.

:50:12. > :50:18.They didn't want to do it. It's like Lou shot Bambi. They didn't want to

:50:19. > :50:20.do it, they've had five wins all season. From champions to the

:50:21. > :50:22.championship, they can't allow that to happen. Thank you very much,

:50:23. > :50:23.John. Steve Claridge is a former

:50:24. > :50:25.Leicester player - who scored the winning goal

:50:26. > :50:28.in their League Cup final in 1997 - the last time Leicester

:50:29. > :50:37.won a trophy. What is your reaction to the

:50:38. > :50:43.sacking? Sadness, disappointment and possibly in the way it's been done,

:50:44. > :50:48.the fact he's been sacked rather than moved upstairs, someone brought

:50:49. > :50:53.in to help. Not really shocked, because staying in the premiership

:50:54. > :50:59.now is the be all and end all. It's been tough going this year. The team

:51:00. > :51:04.has been completely different, the polar opposite to what we saw last

:51:05. > :51:07.year. Probably more of what was expected, rather than what we

:51:08. > :51:12.imagined would happen. What do you put that down to? Obviously all came

:51:13. > :51:17.together in this alchemy last year and it has fallen apart so quickly.

:51:18. > :51:26.It did. I think it is a different team now... I know Kante is out,

:51:27. > :51:29.gone on a big loss. When you get the situation they had last year, you

:51:30. > :51:33.know everyone is working at full capacity. Nobody could have played

:51:34. > :51:36.any better. Now all of a sudden you had decent players playing

:51:37. > :51:41.incredibly well and maybe everybody else in the division may be not at

:51:42. > :51:45.their best. This year you have good players playing incredibly poorly.

:51:46. > :51:49.More is being asked of the manager this year than it was last year. And

:51:50. > :51:54.you have to say, in certain circumstances he has come up short.

:51:55. > :51:58.It has been a different job, a different job role with a different

:51:59. > :52:01.jobs back to what he had to do last year you felt things looked after

:52:02. > :52:05.themselves and he was wonderful at what he had to do, took a lot of

:52:06. > :52:10.pressure off the players, oversaw everything, kept everything ticking

:52:11. > :52:13.along brilliantly. As you say, he is a true gentleman. He is the last

:52:14. > :52:17.person in football anyone would have liked this talented, but maybe it

:52:18. > :52:21.was a different role this year that was required and in some respects he

:52:22. > :52:26.has come up a little bit short. I don't think yet again, that is a

:52:27. > :52:33.major surprise. Sorry to interrupt. It's easy to sack the manager in

:52:34. > :52:37.football, and that's... Players have contracts that are written in stone.

:52:38. > :52:40.You can sack manager and a manager can walk out of his contract.

:52:41. > :52:45.Players you can't sack and they can't walk out of their contracts.

:52:46. > :52:48.The two contracts are completely different, one is written in stone

:52:49. > :52:52.and one is written on a little bit of paper you can throw into the

:52:53. > :52:56.wind. Totally different circumstances. Is he the fall guy,

:52:57. > :53:00.I'm fairly? I think there is certainly a case for him to stay and

:53:01. > :53:03.a case for him to go. We've seen it time and time again in cup

:53:04. > :53:09.competitions. The FA Cup, that's been denigrated by clubs taking that

:53:10. > :53:13.less seriously than they should do because, the perception is if they

:53:14. > :53:17.win the FA Cup they will get relegated, which is silly. Being in

:53:18. > :53:22.the premiership is the be all and end all. There is no room for

:53:23. > :53:26.sentiment, there is no loyalty, unfortunately, from anybody. I just

:53:27. > :53:30.wish somebody, a true gentleman, it could possibly have been done a bit

:53:31. > :53:32.differently. Sacking, I think, does him a bit of a disservice. Thank

:53:33. > :53:34.you, Steve. We followed Leicester's progress

:53:35. > :53:37.all last season with a couple of super fans recording

:53:38. > :53:39.video diaries for us - here's a little reminder of how

:53:40. > :53:56.the journey ended. # Championes, Championes,

:53:57. > :54:12.Ole, Ole, Ole!#. All we could do is hope and dream,

:54:13. > :54:18.and the dream's just getting bigger and bigger and more fraught and it

:54:19. > :54:26.culminates in what has been the most fantastic season for

:54:27. > :54:28.a Leicester City supporter that I've known in 53 years of coming

:54:29. > :54:30.down to support them. The stuff dreams are made she said.

:54:31. > :54:52.She joins us now along with Martin Morley, and Matt Davies who's

:54:53. > :55:01.the vice chair of the Sandra, how much has changed in nine

:55:02. > :55:06.months? What do you think about the sacking of Claudio Ranieri? I'm

:55:07. > :55:12.absolutely disgusted, not the fact he's had to go, but just the way

:55:13. > :55:14.it's been done. It's totally devastated us.

:55:15. > :55:18.So what do you think should have been done?

:55:19. > :55:23.I think he should have been taken to one side, I think the players should

:55:24. > :55:26.have been taken out and birch done told how to play properly and at

:55:27. > :55:30.least try to support the manager, because he supported them all the

:55:31. > :55:34.way through. He's made mistakes and we know that, but at the end of the

:55:35. > :55:37.day it's a game of football. He hasn't got two legs on the pitch,

:55:38. > :55:40.the players have and they haven't performed.

:55:41. > :55:44.Why do you think that is? You are clearly angry with these players who

:55:45. > :55:49.we were all completely in love with last year?

:55:50. > :55:53.In love with them... Bigger contracts, more money, fancy cars

:55:54. > :55:57.and allegedly they are complaining about no chicken burgers on the

:55:58. > :56:01.menu! I don't know who they think they are. We, the fans, have spent

:56:02. > :56:05.thousands this season supporting them, made a lot of effort

:56:06. > :56:08.travelling and whatever, and there's been some of the matches where they

:56:09. > :56:13.might as well have been having their hair done.

:56:14. > :56:20.Gosh, you are so angry, obviously. Do you feel really let down?

:56:21. > :56:24.I feel really let down. Claudio did his job last year. OK, this year, he

:56:25. > :56:27.should have been supported in what he had to do this year and the

:56:28. > :56:32.players have let him down. Martin. Sandra is putting the blame

:56:33. > :56:36.with the players, how do you see things?

:56:37. > :56:42.First of all as a Leicester fan all of my life I'd like to thank Claudio

:56:43. > :56:47.For a dream, a dream as a football fan. All I expected Leicester to win

:56:48. > :56:50.with the FA Cup fourth. For him to galvanise the city where a quarter

:56:51. > :56:55.of a million people turned out when they arrived back with the

:56:56. > :56:59.premiership trophy... And first of all, to the owners, two weeks ago

:57:00. > :57:03.they came, made the journey and said they gave him a vote of confidence.

:57:04. > :57:08.I think it was a done deal before this game with Sevilla but he put

:57:09. > :57:14.Leicester on the map like know any other event. I'd like to say, I'm

:57:15. > :57:17.hearing about the players, splits in the changing rooms... If these were

:57:18. > :57:23.splits in the changing room, these are not household names before they

:57:24. > :57:27.won the league, perhaps Jamie Vardy, but he's brought them to the summit

:57:28. > :57:32.and unfortunately now he's gone. I completely agree with what Gary

:57:33. > :57:36.Lineker says, he's a fan like me and Michael Leicester fans. We were

:57:37. > :57:40.going nowhere as far as I was concerned, but if someone had said

:57:41. > :57:44.to me at the beginning of this season -- last season that they were

:57:45. > :57:49.again win the premiership and then get relegated I would have snapped

:57:50. > :57:53.their hand. I had a dream and it's been the field. Claudio, on behalf

:57:54. > :58:00.of me most of Leicester, thank you very much for what you did. Matt,

:58:01. > :58:04.we're hearing the same theme over and over again, how do you see it?

:58:05. > :58:08.I think a lot of it has been said already. I'd sum it up like this, if

:58:09. > :58:14.at the end of the great escape season I was given a Leicester City

:58:15. > :58:20.genie and the option of next season you will win, you will get to the

:58:21. > :58:24.top, you will win, you will have a quarter of a million people actually

:58:25. > :58:26.celebrating you, you will have a wonderful season and the season

:58:27. > :58:32.after that you won't farewell at all, I'd have taken it, to be

:58:33. > :58:36.honest. Being a fan and watching them 39 seasons, to me, what he

:58:37. > :58:39.achieved last year, and it has already been said by your other

:58:40. > :58:43.callers, was absolutely fantastic. I'm so sorry that the fairy tale has

:58:44. > :58:47.ended. You take the rough with the smooth. Does that mean because he

:58:48. > :58:52.achieved what he did, he should have just been able to kind of go through

:58:53. > :58:55.a bad season and just see where things went?

:58:56. > :59:02.I have to be honest, I would have stuck with him. We needed to find

:59:03. > :59:06.another 19 points in 13 games. I started to see, I don't know if it

:59:07. > :59:10.was my heart ruling my head, but I started to see a chink in the

:59:11. > :59:13.Champions League game. That goal that Jamie Vardy scored was typical

:59:14. > :59:17.of some of the goals we were scoring towards the end of last season and I

:59:18. > :59:21.started to see a chink and I thought, we go. Hopefully we're just

:59:22. > :59:31.starting to a corner now, we've got the likes of Sunderland and Hull to

:59:32. > :59:35.play... We'll camp and it round. Thank you all. I just want to read a

:59:36. > :59:39.quick e-mail, Leicester City 's teaching kids that if you do

:59:40. > :59:43.something really amazing and then can't repeat it again, you get

:59:44. > :59:46.sacked. Do keep your thoughts coming in. Lots of you getting in touch on

:59:47. > :59:50.we'd love to hear from you on everything we are talking about as

:59:51. > :59:56.always. But now, the weather with Nick. Doris has gone that has left

:59:57. > :00:00.her mark. Absolutely, still some disruption

:00:01. > :00:01.and plenty of clearing up to do but it's certainly a different weather

:00:02. > :00:09.picture across the UK today. A much quieter story. Clearly the

:00:10. > :00:13.calm after the storm from your weather watcher pictures so far

:00:14. > :00:18.today. Some lovely sunrise shots from earlier and it is looking much

:00:19. > :00:21.more settled. It is colder, some of us had frost this morning, some

:00:22. > :00:27.patchy ice in the northern half of UK. Where has Doris gone? Swept away

:00:28. > :00:32.further east, gone through Germany and Poland overnight. We have some

:00:33. > :00:35.high pressure building into the UK, although there is another Westerner

:00:36. > :00:40.system coming our way that is not as powerful as Doris. For Northern

:00:41. > :00:44.Ireland there will be outbreaks of rain spreading in, that should be

:00:45. > :00:47.across most of us going into the first part of the afternoon. It

:00:48. > :00:50.pushes into western Scotland with a freshening breeze. Elsewhere, if you

:00:51. > :00:55.started with plenty of sunshine, some cloud building and you may

:00:56. > :00:59.catch an isolated shower. This is the picture at three o'clock this

:01:00. > :01:02.afternoon. There is the rain into Northern Ireland, pushing into

:01:03. > :01:06.western Scotland. The breeze picking up. Later today in north-west

:01:07. > :01:11.Scotland there will be gales. Tonight, as the rain pushes across

:01:12. > :01:14.Portland stone mills before it turns back to rain. Cloud increasing into

:01:15. > :01:19.north-west England and West counties of Wales. Elsewhere ploughed on some

:01:20. > :01:22.sunny spells, still the odd shower in the Midlands but the vast

:01:23. > :01:27.majority will stay dry. Single figure temperatures for many of us.

:01:28. > :01:30.The weekend, the south-westerly wind coming back and it will turn milder

:01:31. > :01:35.again. The wind will pick up once more but not on the scale of Storm

:01:36. > :01:39.Doris. There will be rain around at times and quite heavy in the hills

:01:40. > :01:43.of western Scotland, into the higher ground of Cumbria, where there could

:01:44. > :01:46.be a lot of rain this weekend. Not much in the south-east. Although the

:01:47. > :01:50.weather turns unsettled again nothing on the scale of Storm Doris.

:01:51. > :01:56.The Conservatives unseat Labour in the Copeland by-election, causing

:01:57. > :02:00.But Labour hangs on to Stoke Central, fending off

:02:01. > :02:22.The new Tory MP Trudy Harrison says Labour no longer represent the local

:02:23. > :02:25.people. We have had Labour here for eight years but it is clear that

:02:26. > :02:27.Jeremy Corbyn does not represent them.

:02:28. > :02:29.He's one of the world's most expensive footballers -

:02:30. > :02:33.Gareth Bale opens up about the Wales' amazing run

:02:34. > :02:36.at the Euros last year and what's next for him.

:02:37. > :02:43.My ultimate dream was to play in a major competition for Wales and

:02:44. > :02:47.obviously, we achieved that and more, I suppose. But I suppose you

:02:48. > :02:52.have to go back to the drawing board and put some more dreams on that.

:02:53. > :02:55.For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup or

:02:56. > :03:01.As the stars dust off their tuxedos and make final tweaks

:03:02. > :03:03.to their glamourous outfits before the Oscars this weekend,

:03:04. > :03:09.we'll bring you up to speed on the latest Hollywood gossip.

:03:10. > :03:16.The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:03:17. > :03:19.which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years.

:03:20. > :03:21.Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority

:03:22. > :03:24.Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election,

:03:25. > :03:27.with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place.

:03:28. > :03:28.Labour's election strategist warned the party against

:03:29. > :03:43.We have had two years of introspection in the Labour Party

:03:44. > :03:47.with two leadership contests. The last thing the Labour Party needs

:03:48. > :03:51.going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years

:03:52. > :03:54.ahead. What we have to do is reconnect with communities like

:03:55. > :03:59.Copland. That is a challenge but we have got to be able to show that we

:04:00. > :04:03.are listening to people here on the ground and that we are building

:04:04. > :04:06.policies ahead of the 2020 general election.

:04:07. > :04:08.Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both

:04:09. > :04:13.the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum.

:04:14. > :04:19.The Electoral Commission has published the detail of where ?27

:04:20. > :04:22.million which was spent on the referendum went. However, the

:04:23. > :04:26.commission is concerned that both campaigns have not sent in all their

:04:27. > :04:30.invoices and receipts to show where the money went to. It is not yet

:04:31. > :04:31.clear whether any offences have been committed.

:04:32. > :04:34.Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion,

:04:35. > :04:36.its ninth consecutive year in the red.

:04:37. > :04:39.The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss

:04:40. > :04:41.the bank reported last year and is one of the group's biggest

:04:42. > :04:43.since its Government bailout in 2008.

:04:44. > :04:47.Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first

:04:48. > :04:49.time, a day after capturing the city's airport from

:04:50. > :04:54.Yesterday's operation took four hours.

:04:55. > :04:57.IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further

:04:58. > :05:01.inside the city after losing the ground to the army.

:05:02. > :05:03.The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now

:05:04. > :05:11.Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:05:12. > :05:13.has been found on the face of Kim Jong-Nam -

:05:14. > :05:16.the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader.

:05:17. > :05:19.VX is an extremely toxic Chemical warfare agent and just a drop

:05:20. > :05:27.CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something

:05:28. > :05:29.over Kim Jong-Nam's face while he was preparing to board

:05:30. > :05:34.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:05:35. > :05:37.Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody

:05:38. > :05:39.have arrested two people on suspicion of

:05:40. > :05:44.Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old

:05:45. > :05:47.woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape.

:05:48. > :05:50.Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers

:05:51. > :05:56.guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

:05:57. > :05:59.Donald Trump says he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal.

:06:00. > :06:02.In his first comments on the issue since taking office,

:06:03. > :06:05.Mr Trump said it would be "wonderful" if no nation had nuclear

:06:06. > :06:11.arms, but otherwise the US must be "top of the pack".

:06:12. > :06:14.A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever

:06:15. > :06:17.recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel.

:06:18. > :06:20.A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England,

:06:21. > :06:26.They will help protect resident squirrel populations.

:06:27. > :06:28.Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease

:06:29. > :06:38.and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from north America.

:06:39. > :06:44.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:06:45. > :06:50.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:06:51. > :06:53.use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text, you will be charged

:06:54. > :07:03.Hello, good morning again. It is a sad day again for Claudio Ranieri.

:07:04. > :07:06.At the start of last season Claudio Ranieri was the bookie's

:07:07. > :07:09.favourite to be the first manager sacked - it resulted it

:07:10. > :07:10.Leicester City winning the Premier League and endearing

:07:11. > :07:12.themselves to sports fans and non-sport fans alike,

:07:13. > :07:16.But sitting 17th in the Premier League and just a point

:07:17. > :07:19.above the relegation zone the club have seen fit to sack him,

:07:20. > :07:23.saying "it had to put its long-term long-term interests above all sense

:07:24. > :07:26.The favourite to replace him is the former Manchester City

:07:27. > :07:30.Earlier I spoke to BBC Leicester's Ian Stringer

:07:31. > :07:43.He will always have that hero status in the city of Leicester because he

:07:44. > :07:50.lifted a trophy that the football club had not won in 132 years, 133

:07:51. > :07:54.years now. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the

:07:55. > :08:01.Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome

:08:02. > :08:06.the team led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this

:08:07. > :08:10.club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a

:08:11. > :08:13.motion in the city, there is upset and some elements of anger as well

:08:14. > :08:18.because Claudio Ranieri is still a hero in many people's eyes because

:08:19. > :08:27.of what he achieved last season. We can all remember Angela Bertelli --

:08:28. > :08:30.Bocelli singing lesson Dormer. There was a really

:08:31. > :08:32.disappointing night for Spurs. They failed to reach the last 16

:08:33. > :08:35.of the Europa League after a draw against Gent of Belgium at Wembley,

:08:36. > :08:38.meant they were beaten Dismal especially for two

:08:39. > :08:41.of their England stars - His own goal making

:08:42. > :08:45.it 1-1 on the night. Then another of Spurs' England

:08:46. > :08:47.players, Dele Alli was sent-off It finished 2-2 on the night,

:08:48. > :08:52.leaving Manchester United as the only British side

:08:53. > :09:09.in today's last 16 draw. Celtic have been fined ?60,000 by

:09:10. > :09:11.Uefa after supporters set off fireworks in a match back in

:09:12. > :09:11.December. Centre Ben Te'o will make his

:09:12. > :09:14.first start for England in Sunday's Six Nations

:09:15. > :09:15.match with Italy. Te'o has won 5 caps -

:09:16. > :09:18.all as a replacement, including scoring the winning try

:09:19. > :09:21.in this year's championship Danny Care makes his

:09:22. > :09:24.first England start in a year at scrum-half

:09:25. > :09:27.while Elliot Daly is preferred The Conservatives have pulled off

:09:28. > :09:40.an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian

:09:41. > :09:42.seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned

:09:43. > :09:48.a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes

:09:49. > :09:54.to Labour's Gillian winning with 13,748 votes

:09:55. > :09:56.to Labour's But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent

:09:57. > :10:00.Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600

:10:01. > :10:05.votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped

:10:06. > :10:09.to become his party's second MP. The Conservative victory also marks

:10:10. > :10:15.the first time a rival party has been defeated by the party

:10:16. > :10:17.of government at a In her victory speech,

:10:18. > :10:22.the winning Conservative candidate Mrs Harrison said it was clear

:10:23. > :10:24.from talking to voters in Copeland that "Jeremy Corbyn

:10:25. > :10:26.doesn't represent them". Let's listen to some

:10:27. > :10:32.of her speech now. What has happened here tonight

:10:33. > :10:37.is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

:10:38. > :10:41.than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:10:42. > :10:45.from the opposition party We've had Labour here

:10:46. > :10:54.for more than 80 years, but it's been very clear talking

:10:55. > :10:57.to people throughout this campaign that Jeremy Corbyn

:10:58. > :11:04.doesn't represent them. They want a party which is

:11:05. > :11:07.on the side of ordinary, working people, which will respect

:11:08. > :11:11.the way we voted in the referendum, and which will build a country that

:11:12. > :11:17.represents everyone. That's why they voted

:11:18. > :11:25.for me tonight. And winning Labour candidate

:11:26. > :11:28.Mr Snell said that those who had tried to "sow hatred"

:11:29. > :11:30.in Stoke-on-Trent during the election "have failed"

:11:31. > :11:32.and voters had chosen to support the British values of

:11:33. > :11:34.tolerance and respect. To those of you who came

:11:35. > :11:40.to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and division and to turn us away

:11:41. > :11:43.from our friends and neighbours Tonight, the people

:11:44. > :11:55.of Stoke-on-Trent have chosen the politics of hope over

:11:56. > :11:59.the politics of fear. We have said with one voice

:12:00. > :12:02.that hatred and bigotry are not welcome here,

:12:03. > :12:04.and that this is a proud city This election is a victory

:12:05. > :12:11.for British values of tolerance and respect, but it is also

:12:12. > :12:15.a victory for the proud Labour values that's the hallmark

:12:16. > :12:20.of our city and its people. It is a message that the people

:12:21. > :12:23.of Stoke-on-Trent won't just sit back whilst the Tory government

:12:24. > :12:27.cuts our national health service to the bone and puts the future

:12:28. > :12:32.of our public services at risk. It is a warning that we will not

:12:33. > :12:36.stand idly by while politicians in Westminster pour ever more money

:12:37. > :12:39.into London and the south-east while the rest of the country

:12:40. > :12:45.is simply left to fend for itself. Ukip leader and candidate

:12:46. > :12:47.for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Paul Nuttall, spoke after the result

:12:48. > :12:50.to say he was still confident about Ukip's future chances,

:12:51. > :12:53.despite his defeat. Just to warn you, there is flash

:12:54. > :13:07.photography throughout this clip. We have cut their majority in half,

:13:08. > :13:12.and we have unified the party like never before, and we'll go forward

:13:13. > :13:22.now. Ukip's time will come. This will happen. Hang on. This seat was

:13:23. > :13:26.what, number 72 on our hit list. There is a lot more that will

:13:27. > :13:31.happen, a lot more to come from us. We are not going anywhere. I'm not

:13:32. > :13:39.going anywhere, so therefore we move on and our time will come. It is the

:13:40. > :13:44.Brexit capital of Britain. There are other issues beyond Brexit. In terms

:13:45. > :13:49.of where we are as a party on the ground, we put this at number 72.

:13:50. > :13:54.There will be a lot more seats which will be more favourable to us in the

:13:55. > :13:59.near future, and we will go on and we will have success in the future.

:14:00. > :14:06.Gerard Richardson, a Conservative voter, in Whitehaven.

:14:07. > :14:08.Glyn Chapman, a Labour voter, in Stoke-on-Trent -

:14:09. > :14:14.and we also have Ukip voter in Stoke-on-Trent: Simon Willdigg.

:14:15. > :14:22.Thank you all very much for joining us. Gerard first of all, you must be

:14:23. > :14:28.pleased with the outcome in Copland? Yes, delighted. It is the chance for

:14:29. > :14:31.a fresh start for us, to be honest. Eight decades of Labour and quite

:14:32. > :14:43.frankly the government are lazy around here -- they are lazy around

:14:44. > :14:51.here, they take people for granted. Have you always voted Labour? I

:14:52. > :14:55.think a lot of people continue voting the way their grandad did

:14:56. > :14:59.because it is ingrained in them. I left the area, joined the forces,

:15:00. > :15:03.came back and I have a wider perspective perhaps. I preferred to

:15:04. > :15:09.vote on what the parties are offering. For the last 30 odd years

:15:10. > :15:15.the mood has always been conservative. Glynn, your joining us

:15:16. > :15:20.from Stoke-on-Trent where Labour won but lost in Copland so what is your

:15:21. > :15:27.outcome on the view for Labour? It is a great result in Stoke. It is a

:15:28. > :15:32.shame in Copland. The main thing was to keep Ukip out which could have

:15:33. > :15:42.been a terrible thing for the city. What to think it boiled down to four

:15:43. > :15:47.Ukip? The controversy about Paul Nuttall and his lies. Hillsborough,

:15:48. > :15:50.that was something he had not personally claimed that it was on

:15:51. > :15:56.his website, that he knew people personally who died at Hillsborough?

:15:57. > :16:00.I don't think it helped his campaign but I don't think people here

:16:01. > :16:07.generally welcomed those politics of division and fear.

:16:08. > :16:13.Simon, you switched from Labour to Ukip three years ago, why was that?

:16:14. > :16:20.I thought the party was going in no direction at all. Stoke-on-Trent, we

:16:21. > :16:24.have issues like the old Stoke City Football Club, we've lost

:16:25. > :16:32.coal-mining and pits. The Saronic and this is on its way up, but I'm

:16:33. > :16:36.quite surprised by the margin last night. -- the ceramic poppies

:16:37. > :16:39.industry is on its way up. I thought people would have voted with the

:16:40. > :16:46.feet and visually they haven't. Why do thing that was? You were

:16:47. > :16:52.supporting Ukip, what went wrong for Ukip? In my opinion I thought a

:16:53. > :16:57.local person should have stood for Stoke values, personally. Sorry, I

:16:58. > :17:04.was struggling to hear you. Can you say that again? I will repeat that.

:17:05. > :17:08.In quite a lot of is people's opinion in Stoke-on-Trent, where we

:17:09. > :17:13.field Ukip went wrong, we feel they should have had a local person

:17:14. > :17:19.standing as an MP, not someone parachuting in. Party leader, you

:17:20. > :17:24.can't get much more higher profile? You can't, but Paul Nuttall has

:17:25. > :17:32.stood six times and failed six times in his own city. What do you think

:17:33. > :17:39.this says Burda. The Tory party winning a seat in a by-election, the

:17:40. > :17:46.governing party overturning the majority of the standing party in a

:17:47. > :17:53.by-election is extremely rare. What do you think it says about the

:17:54. > :18:00.Conservative Party in the North? Did it come down to particular issues

:18:01. > :18:06.because of nuclear, the instance? No, I've heard this. I think it does

:18:07. > :18:11.come down far more to Jeremy Corbyn's style of leadership and his

:18:12. > :18:15.policies. Certainly on the nuclear issue, there were concerns here but

:18:16. > :18:20.the Labour candidate herself was pro-nuclear. We've had Labour

:18:21. > :18:27.candidates in the past there were antinuclear. I think it's possibly

:18:28. > :18:33.the same across the country, people are jaded about promises. We've

:18:34. > :18:37.heard promises of great things here in ten years or 20 years but nothing

:18:38. > :18:40.gets delivered. After 80 years they should have a great big long list of

:18:41. > :18:45.achievements to point to and they haven't. What we've had is decline

:18:46. > :18:50.and there is more decline heading our way. We needed a fresh chance

:18:51. > :18:53.but I think the Labour Party are in complete disarray and I think if

:18:54. > :18:58.they continue with Jeremy Corbyn it's not good for the country. We

:18:59. > :19:03.need a strong opposition. He really is, he would take them to a

:19:04. > :19:07.electoral catastrophe in 2020. I think they will be lucky if they

:19:08. > :19:13.have double-digit MPs the way they are going. Your reaction to that,

:19:14. > :19:18.Glenn? I think the Labour Party have a lot of work to do, they've been

:19:19. > :19:23.losing votes since 1997. That's not Jeremy Corbyn's fault. He's been the

:19:24. > :19:29.leader for two years, in which time his party and try to Alston. I think

:19:30. > :19:32.he's great, I think he can do a really good job at the party and

:19:33. > :19:41.everyone else needs to get behind him. Simon, Ukip's fortunes, are

:19:42. > :19:47.they a viable party going forward? Of course it is. The problem in Ukip

:19:48. > :19:51.now is, we've voted out of Brexit now and the party now has to think

:19:52. > :19:59.of the neck strategy, of where they're going to move on. What do

:20:00. > :20:04.you think they should do? Strong policies, like the NHS. I think

:20:05. > :20:07.there should have more of a local link with people. Thank you all very

:20:08. > :20:11.much for giving us your perspective. Still to come: As the final

:20:12. > :20:13.preparations get underway for the Oscars this weekend,

:20:14. > :20:16.we'll be getting the latest gossip He was - until recently -

:20:17. > :20:20.the world's most expensive footballer and in a rare interview

:20:21. > :20:23.for Newsbeat and this programme, Gareth Bale has spoken of his pride

:20:24. > :20:27.at helping Wales to an almost miraculous semi-final

:20:28. > :20:28.place at last year's He's been promoting "Don't take me

:20:29. > :20:42.home," a new movie about last He's told us how he wants to help

:20:43. > :20:47.make Wales great at everything - and the reason why he wants to beat

:20:48. > :20:50.England all the time - because they 'always think they're

:20:51. > :20:59.the best' The Real Madrid star spoke Now let's be honest, the euro rose

:21:00. > :21:04.was a bit dull except for the Welsh, wasn't it? Well, you said it, not

:21:05. > :21:09.me! I think the thing with us, we've grown up together through the youth

:21:10. > :21:13.team, come to the senior team and got 40, 50, 60 caps now. I think

:21:14. > :21:17.it's a long, hard process that we've gone through. We've gone through

:21:18. > :21:21.some ups and downs and worked very hard together. The manager who's

:21:22. > :21:25.coming has been incredible and got us playing the kind of football we

:21:26. > :21:30.like to play and we've kept the Gresini jeer and getting better.

:21:31. > :21:33.Even going on the world stage and performing like that as a team that.

:21:34. > :21:39.In terms of Wales, do you think there is any chance of knocking

:21:40. > :21:43.rugby off its perch? We just want to make Wales great at everything, to

:21:44. > :21:49.be honest. Rugby, football, we want everything to do well. Obviously

:21:50. > :21:51.football in the last few years has been down, hopefully we can inspire

:21:52. > :21:57.a lot of youngsters to come through, do well and put football back on top

:21:58. > :22:03.again. In terms of going forward, up against it, World Cup 2018. What are

:22:04. > :22:08.your hopes and anxieties, if you like, about that, particularly with

:22:09. > :22:11.the Ireland game? I feel like we are in a good position, four points off

:22:12. > :22:17.the top team and we have to play them, so we can be a point behind.

:22:18. > :22:20.We would prefer to be topped with a lot more points, but it's not always

:22:21. > :22:24.the case in football. We're still confident we can qualify. We know if

:22:25. > :22:28.we keep working hard as a team and get that little bit of luck that you

:22:29. > :22:32.need, then we can go all the way. Something not everyone knows. You

:22:33. > :22:37.were at school, correct me if you're wrong, even in the same class as Sam

:22:38. > :22:41.Warburton, ex-Wales rugby skipper, still playing for the side. Does

:22:42. > :22:45.that make rugby fan? Are you interested in rugby and have you

:22:46. > :22:51.been following the Six Nations? Yeah, I enjoy watching the team

:22:52. > :22:55.and... I'm not a massive rugby fan, I'm the football fan. Who are you

:22:56. > :23:02.worried about from the Irish side next month? When not worried about

:23:03. > :23:06.anybody. Roy Keane? Maybe, he might chin me after the game. We're not

:23:07. > :23:09.worried about any Irish players, it's the same as always for us, we

:23:10. > :23:18.concentrate on ourselves and prepare our sells right. Talk about Wales,

:23:19. > :23:25.what would be the ideal fit for your career? Reaching the semifinals as

:23:26. > :23:28.you did in Euro 2016 that, that must have surpassed some of your

:23:29. > :23:32.expectations as a player coming up. What would be the ideal dream,

:23:33. > :23:34.realistic dream for you as a Wales player, or did you achieve it last

:23:35. > :23:40.summer? My ultimate dream is to play in a

:23:41. > :23:44.major competition for Wales, and obviously we achieved that, and

:23:45. > :23:48.more, I suppose. I suppose you have to go back to the drawing board and

:23:49. > :23:53.put all dreams are there. For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup on

:23:54. > :23:56.another major tournament to have an experience like the one we did in

:23:57. > :24:03.the euro rose. That would be very nice. You are known guy, a humble

:24:04. > :24:10.guy, and very open for a footballer. With all that in mind, a nice bit of

:24:11. > :24:14.advice for young player? For me, just work hard. I think you have to

:24:15. > :24:17.commit to football. You have to leave the temptations behind of

:24:18. > :24:21.going out with your friends and doing this and just concentrate on

:24:22. > :24:24.your football, work hard in training. I think as long as you're

:24:25. > :24:27.working hard and practising your football, you will always have a

:24:28. > :24:34.chance. What is the favourite goal you have ever scored for Wales? I

:24:35. > :24:38.think one against England is always great to score! I think for me

:24:39. > :24:43.against Scotland at the Cardiff City stadium, to win the game, to put it

:24:44. > :24:51.in the top corner was an amazing feeling. A great goal in my mind.

:24:52. > :24:55.One I will always look back memories. And is in decent goals

:24:56. > :25:00.last summer, how do they rank? Right up there. But in terms of the style

:25:01. > :25:04.of goal rather than the meaning of it, I like the Scotland one. You

:25:05. > :25:08.like the Scotland one, OK. Final question, you did mention England.

:25:09. > :25:14.What is it, why do teams, Wales, Scotland, why do they all want to

:25:15. > :25:17.beat England so much, why is it so satisfying? Because they ways give

:25:18. > :25:24.it the big one, always think they're the best and they never achieve

:25:25. > :25:27.anything, sorry to say! I think that's probably the main reason why.

:25:28. > :25:32.It's always good to get one over. Some tips for England, how can they

:25:33. > :25:37.recreate Wales' success? They can't! Gareth Bale.

:25:38. > :25:44.Jeremy Corbyn has been giving reaction to the by-election results

:25:45. > :25:47.ahead of a speech he's about to make in central London. It's the day of

:25:48. > :25:51.celebration in Stoke and disappointment in Copland. We

:25:52. > :25:57.defeated Ukip in Stoke despite predictions they would prevail, the

:25:58. > :26:00.politics of hope prevailed over the politics of hate. Copland was

:26:01. > :26:05.disappointing, I do hope to have won the election that. I want to say

:26:06. > :26:08.thank you for Gillian Troughton for the campaign she ran and

:26:09. > :26:11.congratulations to Gareth Snell for his election in Stoke. How did you

:26:12. > :26:17.feel when you heard Labour had lost in Copland? Very disappointed

:26:18. > :26:20.because it is an area that needs investment and needs a Labour MP to

:26:21. > :26:24.carried that Ford and above all it needs to ensure jobs are secure for

:26:25. > :26:29.the future and there is new investment on the Cumbrian coast, as

:26:30. > :26:33.well as no closure of the West Cumbrian hospital. Labour's share of

:26:34. > :26:38.the vote didn't just falling Copland, it fell in Stoke. It has

:26:39. > :26:42.fallen in another three by-elections recently, an opposition party losing

:26:43. > :26:47.a share of the vote in by-elections, almost unheard of. Are you going to

:26:48. > :26:52.on your sought to set stem the tide question mark I was elected to lead

:26:53. > :27:00.this party. We will continue her campaigning

:27:01. > :27:03.work on the NHS, on social care, on housing and the catastrophic cuts

:27:04. > :27:06.that have been made to council expenditure all over the country by

:27:07. > :27:12.central government. How are you going to stem the tide rest muck is

:27:13. > :27:16.an option to fall on your sword? We are our campaigning party, a party

:27:17. > :27:20.determined to get that message out there and as the weeks go on there

:27:21. > :27:24.will be more policy announcements on issues surrounding the funding of

:27:25. > :27:29.local government and health, and issues surrounding industrial

:27:30. > :27:34.development and planning and we have started a series of regional

:27:35. > :27:37.economic conferences, as bottom-up policy making, so the desperate to

:27:38. > :27:41.people all across the country for secure jobs is a good one. We will

:27:42. > :27:45.continue with that work. To be clear, you are not considering

:27:46. > :27:49.stepping down? No, I was elected to lead this party and am proud to lead

:27:50. > :27:52.this party. Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the two by-election results.

:27:53. > :27:55.Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:27:56. > :27:59.has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half

:28:00. > :28:05.We'll be getting the latest on that.

:28:06. > :28:08.Ahead of the Oscars 2017 taking place at the weekend,

:28:09. > :28:14.we'll be getting the latest gossip from the red carpet.

:28:15. > :28:18.With the News here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:28:19. > :28:23.The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:28:24. > :28:25.which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years.

:28:26. > :28:27.Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority

:28:28. > :28:31.Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election,

:28:32. > :28:34.with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place.

:28:35. > :28:39.Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both

:28:40. > :28:41.the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum.

:28:42. > :28:43.The Electoral Commission has published the detail

:28:44. > :28:46.of where ?27 million that was spent on the referendum went.

:28:47. > :28:50.However, the commission is concerned that both campaigns haven't sent

:28:51. > :28:52.in all their invoices and receipts, to show where the money

:28:53. > :28:57.It's not yet clear whether any offences have been committed.

:28:58. > :29:00.Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion,

:29:01. > :29:04.its ninth consecutive year in the red.

:29:05. > :29:06.The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss

:29:07. > :29:09.the bank reported last year, and is one of the group's biggest

:29:10. > :29:13.since its Government bailout in 2008.

:29:14. > :29:16.Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first

:29:17. > :29:19.time, a day after capturing the city's airport from

:29:20. > :29:23.Yesterday's operation took four hours.

:29:24. > :29:27.IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further

:29:28. > :29:30.inside the city after losing the ground to the army.

:29:31. > :29:32.The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now

:29:33. > :29:41.Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:29:42. > :29:43.has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam -

:29:44. > :29:46.the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader.

:29:47. > :29:48.VX is an extremely toxic chemical warfare agent and just a drop

:29:49. > :29:56.CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something

:29:57. > :29:58.over Kim Jong-nam's face, while he was preparing to board

:29:59. > :30:03.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:30:04. > :30:10.Our correspondent will be speaking to Joanna in the next half an hour.

:30:11. > :30:12.Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody

:30:13. > :30:14.have arrested two people on suspicion of

:30:15. > :30:17.Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old

:30:18. > :30:19.woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape.

:30:20. > :30:23.Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers

:30:24. > :30:29.guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

:30:30. > :30:31.A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever

:30:32. > :30:35.recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel.

:30:36. > :30:38.A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England,

:30:39. > :30:42.They will help protect resident squirrel populations.

:30:43. > :30:45.Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease

:30:46. > :30:54.and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from North America.

:30:55. > :30:56.That's a summary of the latest news,

:30:57. > :31:04.Good morning, Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss

:31:05. > :31:08.is the early favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester.

:31:09. > :31:10.It's being reported the club have made an approach

:31:11. > :31:17.for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 an led City

:31:18. > :31:21.for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 and led City

:31:22. > :31:25.A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress

:31:26. > :31:29.They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked

:31:30. > :31:32.Manchester United will be the only British team

:31:33. > :31:52.Centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England

:31:53. > :31:54.in Sunday's Six Nations match with Italy.

:31:55. > :31:56.Te'o has won 5 caps - all as a replacement,

:31:57. > :31:58.including scoring the winning try in this year's championship

:31:59. > :32:11.Finally cricket and an amazing performance from Australia

:32:12. > :32:14.And there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner

:32:15. > :32:16.Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled

:32:17. > :32:19.out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune.

:32:20. > :32:22.Hollywood is gearing up for the biggest night of the year -

:32:23. > :32:26.The red carpet's already been rolled out for the 89th

:32:27. > :32:28.Academy Awards ceremony - the Oscars - on Sunday night.

:32:29. > :32:31.All the talk's been about La La Land, the musical

:32:32. > :32:33.starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone - it's leads the way

:32:34. > :32:37.Meanwhile there are three British nominees in the acting categories.

:32:38. > :32:40.And what's the gossip on the red carpet?

:32:41. > :32:42.Let's find out from the BBC's entertainment

:32:43. > :32:50.Hello from the red carpet at the Oscars. Behind me, they are

:32:51. > :32:53.Bulgarian. They are very happy with their one nomination. This is where

:32:54. > :33:04.the most famous film stars on the planet will be on Sunday. 270 metres

:33:05. > :33:09.long. The cost of it is over ?200,000. That is why they have a

:33:10. > :33:16.tarpaulin over it. If you look over here, those are the bleachers. 735

:33:17. > :33:22.fans get to win a ballot when they get to come and sit and cheer on

:33:23. > :33:27.their movie heroes at the Oscars. It takes the stars once they arrive on

:33:28. > :33:31.the red carpet about two hours to walk the whole length of it because

:33:32. > :33:36.there are crews are more than 80 countries around the world. This is

:33:37. > :33:41.where they will all be standing. They'll get allocated their tiny

:33:42. > :33:46.little section and they will be shouting for the categories they

:33:47. > :33:51.care about. If you are Bulgarian, it is the short animation category. We

:33:52. > :33:58.love the Oscars for the showbiz but it is also big business as well?

:33:59. > :34:02.Absolutely. The films which win Oscars increased their box office.

:34:03. > :34:07.Three of the nine nominated films for best picture have already gone

:34:08. > :34:12.by $100 million at the box office. How it works for the Oscars is, once

:34:13. > :34:22.the public have seen the films the Oscars get bigger viewing figures.

:34:23. > :34:28.You have got La La Land at ?130 million, and then there is Arrival,

:34:29. > :34:34.the sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams who was snubbed at the Oscars, also

:34:35. > :34:40.has gone by ?100 million. They can all expect a boost. When it gets to

:34:41. > :34:46.this stage with so much hype around the movies, are there likely to be

:34:47. > :34:50.many surprises on the night? There are actually some categories were

:34:51. > :34:53.leaving the experts are really torn about who will win. The most

:34:54. > :35:02.interesting one I would say, best actor. For months everyone thought

:35:03. > :35:05.Casey Affleck who plays a janitor in Boston who has to go back to his

:35:06. > :35:10.hometown when his brother dies to bring up his nephew, everyone

:35:11. > :35:17.thought he was a shoo-in but then the screen actors Guild award and

:35:18. > :35:22.then Denzel Washington stormed in for Fences. So Denzel Washington

:35:23. > :35:32.could become only the fourth actor ever to win three Oscars. My money

:35:33. > :35:36.is on him. Most people I still think fancy Casey Affleck. Tell us more

:35:37. > :35:40.about the machinations behind what happens because there are two people

:35:41. > :35:48.right now who do know exactly who has won what. There are two people

:35:49. > :35:50.on the planet and they are accountants for

:35:51. > :35:54.PricewaterhouseCoopers and they are the people who get the ballots for

:35:55. > :35:59.more than 7000 Academy members, count them up and the winners are

:36:00. > :36:03.put into envelopes. They are the envelopes you see people read out on

:36:04. > :36:08.stage. They are put in a briefcase and that briefcase is only opened

:36:09. > :36:13.when it is taken to the Oscars on Sunday by these two people. That is

:36:14. > :36:18.quite a job and quite a responsibility. It has never gone

:36:19. > :36:22.wrong yet, maybe this is the year! What happens after the Oscars?

:36:23. > :36:27.Everything builds up to this moment and then the movies go quiet again

:36:28. > :36:37.for a bit? What is interesting is what we are standing on now is

:36:38. > :36:39.Hollywood boulevard. The Oscars are on Sunday night, by Monday

:36:40. > :36:43.lunchtime, this will all be gone and this will be a road again. The

:36:44. > :36:47.Oscars almost disappear almost instantly. It is a time of year

:36:48. > :36:52.after the Oscars when the film companies put out there misfires,

:36:53. > :36:56.the films they thought might content the Oscars but then they thought,

:36:57. > :36:59.they are not that good. We have had this great few months where you get

:37:00. > :37:03.to go to the cinema and see the best films of the year. In the next few

:37:04. > :37:08.months you have the worst to look forward to, unless you have not seen

:37:09. > :37:14.these Oscar films. I can recommend seven out of nine of the best

:37:15. > :37:20.pictures. They are ready tremendous. We can watch them on DVD. A quick

:37:21. > :37:28.word on the Brits at the Oscars, not as many nominations as previous

:37:29. > :37:43.years? Not a great year for Britons. We have three, Dev Patel for Lion.

:37:44. > :37:50.We have Andrew Garfield and also Naomie Harris. In the week she has

:37:51. > :37:55.got an MBE she has been nominated for the Oscars. We will get the

:37:56. > :37:59.British nominees to pop into a restaurant in their taxes on their

:38:00. > :38:06.way to the Oscars, including two brothers nominated against each

:38:07. > :38:10.other in the same category, Neil and Paul Hall balled up against each

:38:11. > :38:16.other in Best visual effects. And then we will tell you instantly on

:38:17. > :38:23.BBC radio 5 Live. If you want your Oscars coverage, apart from on the

:38:24. > :38:26.news channel, come to 5 Live. Colin, thank you very much. Enjoyed it all.

:38:27. > :38:29.As Colin has been showing us, preparations are well underway

:38:30. > :38:33.While it's business as usual in the proceedings, like every

:38:34. > :38:35.Hollywood show there are always the quirks and blunders that make

:38:36. > :38:39.For more on what we can expect from this year's show,

:38:40. > :38:41.I've also been speaking to celebrity showbiz gossip columnist

:38:42. > :38:49.Perez Hilton and CNN's Hollywood journalist Sandro Monetti.

:38:50. > :38:58.So, Perez, bring us right up to date with the latest gossip from

:38:59. > :39:01.Hollywood. This Oscars is unlike any other because of the current

:39:02. > :39:10.political climate in the United States. In fact, my talent agency,

:39:11. > :39:16.UTA, instead of having an Oscars party this weekend they are holding

:39:17. > :39:21.a rally. I will go later today and some big-name stars will be

:39:22. > :39:26.attending. Some even bigger name stars will be speaking, including

:39:27. > :39:30.Jodie Foster, Michael J Fox as well as the Lieutenant Governor for the

:39:31. > :39:36.state of California. I think that sends a message loud and clear to

:39:37. > :39:41.the person in the White House who, in the past, almost annually used to

:39:42. > :39:46.live tweet the Oscars. I have a feeling he won't be doing that this

:39:47. > :39:52.year. He may be live tweeting but maybe not in the circumspect way

:39:53. > :39:56.that has been done before, perhaps, because we already saw that spat,

:39:57. > :40:02.Meryl Streep making her comments and Donald Trump hitting right back at

:40:03. > :40:12.her. Do you expect there to be a lot of trump speeches? One wag said

:40:13. > :40:15.there will be so many that they will have to come up with an award for

:40:16. > :40:17.the best speech. I think there will be some but not that much. Just

:40:18. > :40:22.because there have already been a few award shows since Donald Trump

:40:23. > :40:27.was inaugurated, starting with the Golden Globes and even more

:40:28. > :40:31.politically charged where the screen actors awards which were broadcast

:40:32. > :40:39.here in the US. I suspect some but maybe not as many as some right wing

:40:40. > :40:45.people might expect will happen. Sandro, do the Hollywood stars

:40:46. > :40:48.risked alienating people and looking out of touch because Donald Trump is

:40:49. > :40:56.a president who has won on a popular vote and there has been a bit of a

:40:57. > :40:59.backlash against Hollywood stars? It used to be in every acceptance

:41:00. > :41:04.speech you had to thank your agent. This time you have to insult Donald

:41:05. > :41:08.Trump. It is kind of expected otherwise you are not part of the

:41:09. > :41:12.patch in Hollywood. They are worried about alienating the rest of the

:41:13. > :41:17.community. If they don't do it at this point, it is almost expected.

:41:18. > :41:21.It is kind of counter-productive, it plays into Donald Trump's hands and

:41:22. > :41:25.the image that he has been saying, they are all in their mansions and

:41:26. > :41:28.they are not in touch with the real people. Regardless of what you feel

:41:29. > :41:35.about their valid points, if you want to watch politics watch CNN, if

:41:36. > :41:39.you want to watch showbiz, watch the Oscars. I think there is far too

:41:40. > :41:46.much politics creeping into awards season but I expect it to be one

:41:47. > :41:51.Trump bashing after another. Let's talk about the movies. It is no

:41:52. > :41:57.accident about which movies get the nominations. Tell us about the

:41:58. > :42:00.campaigning? It is much like a presidential campaign because the

:42:01. > :42:04.people who win the Oscars don't just give the best performances, they

:42:05. > :42:08.also meet most of the voters and they are all out there on the

:42:09. > :42:13.campaign Trail shaking hands. It has been like that for months. Usually,

:42:14. > :42:21.the person who wins have met most of the electorate are wrong the way. --

:42:22. > :42:26.along the way. I have met most of the stars so I have been able to

:42:27. > :42:31.take the pulse of the electorate, if you will. La La Land was a heavy

:42:32. > :42:35.favourite, because it is the hometown movie. The Oscars are held

:42:36. > :42:40.in Los Angeles, La La Land is set in Los Angeles around the entertainment

:42:41. > :42:48.business. It is like the BAFTAs voting for the Queen. Another

:42:49. > :42:50.backlash against La La Land, particularly away from Hollywood

:42:51. > :42:57.where the message that you sacrificed love for career and self

:42:58. > :43:03.has not gone down quite so well. How is it seen in Hollywood and do you

:43:04. > :43:08.expect it to sweep the board? I definitely agree it is the front

:43:09. > :43:12.runner and I am personally invested in it because some of my dear

:43:13. > :43:21.friends wrote the music for the songs which were nominated for Best

:43:22. > :43:25.Oscar. John Legend will perform. I am rooting for them. This year I'm

:43:26. > :43:28.going to say I will be concerned with the ratings. I think some

:43:29. > :43:35.people will not watch because they expect trump bashing but I think a

:43:36. > :43:42.lot of the films did moderately successfully at the box office. They

:43:43. > :43:46.were not huge blockbusters. I am more excited to see the performers.

:43:47. > :43:56.There are big name performers from the UK. Sting will be performing.

:43:57. > :44:01.John Legend will be performing stop the biggest performer will be Justin

:44:02. > :44:05.Timberlake. I hear they are planning a very special tribute to Debbie

:44:06. > :44:09.Reynolds and Carrie Fisher because there will be that to look forward

:44:10. > :44:17.to and get emotional over. Ollie loved them and they were beloved

:44:18. > :44:22.here. -- Hollywood loved them. A very different Oscars this year.

:44:23. > :44:27.There was that whole row about the Oscars so white. Does it feel

:44:28. > :44:31.different this year? Applause to the Academy for changing their

:44:32. > :44:40.membership rules. Let me run the numbers by you. The Academy is 93%

:44:41. > :44:47.White, 76% male. The average age of voter, 63. The Academy has initiated

:44:48. > :44:51.a policy whereby over the next four years they will double the number of

:44:52. > :44:58.people of colour and the number of women who are allowed to vote on the

:44:59. > :45:03.Oscars. Well, finally, and they have started that movement this year, and

:45:04. > :45:08.that has been reflected, it would appear, in the increasing number of

:45:09. > :45:13.nominations for people of colour. So it is about time. And what do you

:45:14. > :45:17.think has gone on there, Perez, because obviously these films were

:45:18. > :45:21.in production way before the whole row happened, but they have come to

:45:22. > :45:25.prominence this year, and do you think because of what happened last

:45:26. > :45:26.year, there has been an element of films being looked at maybe with

:45:27. > :45:34.fresh eyes? Absolutely, I remember last year

:45:35. > :45:44.there was a lot of controversy with the film Straight Out Of Compton,

:45:45. > :45:47.which many felt needed to be nominated but it wasn't. I think if

:45:48. > :45:54.it was released this last year I think it would have struck a nerve

:45:55. > :46:00.with voters, given the change are the pool of Academy members. I'm

:46:01. > :46:04.very happy with the changes. I think the films nominated and actors and

:46:05. > :46:08.actresses nominated well worthy of their nominations and reflect real

:46:09. > :46:12.life better, that is what art should do, reflect a life. I want to get

:46:13. > :46:25.your predictions in the main categories. Perez, would you think?

:46:26. > :46:31.I think Lala land the best picture, Emma Stone Best actress and Denzel

:46:32. > :46:35.Washington. Lala land and Emma Stone. I give Casey Affleck the

:46:36. > :46:43.slight edge for Manchester by the sea. I hated every second of the

:46:44. > :46:51.film but it never did Marlon Brando any harm mumbling all way through.

:46:52. > :46:57.We have already spoken about La La Land, puts it right up there in the

:46:58. > :47:01.most nominated Oscar-nominated of all time. Do you think it is one of

:47:02. > :47:14.the best film to come out of Hollywood? Yes, it's tied with

:47:15. > :47:21.Titanic and All About Eve. It's as good as singing in the rain! Perez,

:47:22. > :47:27.I know you have some personal interest, so I assume you echo that

:47:28. > :47:35.an Lala land? Absolutely. If you were recommending a movie for people

:47:36. > :47:40.to watch away from La La Land, what would it be? I have to be honest,

:47:41. > :47:46.I've mainly just been watching kids movies these days, with my son, who

:47:47. > :47:54.is four. I saw the Batman Lego movie which was cute. No ask and -- Oscar

:47:55. > :47:57.nominations though. As we go into these days before the Oscars, what

:47:58. > :48:03.is the atmosphere like that in Hollywood? There's just a lot of

:48:04. > :48:09.preparation involved. In fact, my trainer at the gym has taken time

:48:10. > :48:13.off from training me because she's working at the Oscars. That's also

:48:14. > :48:17.something that happens. All of a sudden, people who do other jobs

:48:18. > :48:22.start doing the Oscars, they shut down Hollywood Boulevard. There is

:48:23. > :48:28.tonnes of prep and security involved. Hopefully it won't rain. I

:48:29. > :48:33.do think it is expected to rain this weekend, we'll see, fingers crossed.

:48:34. > :48:38.Give us some good stats. The value of the goody bags, the amount of

:48:39. > :48:44.money that spent on getting the star is ready, give us some great stats

:48:45. > :48:48.on that. Value of the goody bag, ?200,000. Even if you don't win an

:48:49. > :48:53.Oscar you get to take home the goodie bag, which is worth its

:48:54. > :48:57.weight in gold and includes five luxury holidays, including a trip to

:48:58. > :49:00.Lake Como in Italy. So if George Clooney doesn't have room in his

:49:01. > :49:05.mansion, you can stay in the Hotel next door. As for getting ready for

:49:06. > :49:09.the Oscars... Botox doesn't come cheap. Let me tell you, you won't be

:49:10. > :49:13.seeing many wrinkles on the red carpet. It's boom time of the year

:49:14. > :49:18.for the injectables business, I'm off to get mine and I know Perez has

:49:19. > :49:23.his. Despite all the effort that goes into looking good, there are

:49:24. > :49:29.always some howlers on the red carpet, aren't there? Absolutely.

:49:30. > :49:34.That's my motto, better to be remembered for one of the worst

:49:35. > :49:40.outfits that the Oscars than not be remembered at all! Do you think it

:49:41. > :49:43.is done deliberately sometimes? I'm often on the worst dressed lists.

:49:44. > :49:46.I'm also very much looking forward to seeing what Jimmy Kimmel does as

:49:47. > :49:50.the host. Costume is a huge part of any film,

:49:51. > :49:53.TV or theatre production. And out of the five films

:49:54. > :49:56.that has been nominated for Best Costume at the Oscars,

:49:57. > :49:59.Angels Costumes, has bagged three. It's the largest privately owned

:50:00. > :50:03.collection of costume for film, theatre and television anywhere

:50:04. > :50:04.in the world. Our entertainment reporter

:50:05. > :50:07.Chi Chi Izundu got to look around Angels Costumiers already

:50:08. > :50:19.has 36 Oscars for some But it's hoping that one of these

:50:20. > :50:28.three films will take home a little We work on so many films every year,

:50:29. > :50:51.it's just an honour to be involved in any of the films

:50:52. > :50:53.that get nominated. You've got no idea which way

:50:54. > :50:55.the Academy's going to go, what they're looking for each year,

:50:56. > :50:59.so it might be futuristic, might be But we're always surprised and

:51:00. > :51:05.always very thankful to be involved. This is just one site, the other

:51:06. > :51:09.warehouse is in central London. Random fact time -

:51:10. > :51:12.there are eight and half miles, worth of hanging space here,

:51:13. > :51:15.that's on four floors. They can knock up an outfit

:51:16. > :51:20.from scratch in about three days. We may have seen

:51:21. > :51:21.Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious costumes for an upcoming remake that

:51:22. > :51:24.we're not actually From visual effects to high end

:51:25. > :51:31.production to - of course - costume design, the UK has

:51:32. > :51:34.a world-renowned reputation when it Last year film and TV

:51:35. > :51:41.attracted ?1.3 billion worth of international investment,

:51:42. > :51:45.so maintaining those relationships, particularly across Europe,

:51:46. > :51:47.is ever more important come Since 2007, the EU has contributed

:51:48. > :51:55.more than 100 million euros When we leave, what will

:51:56. > :52:02.happen to that source? The free movement of people,

:52:03. > :52:05.goods and services could become difficult if new visa

:52:06. > :52:09.requirements are introduced. But on the plus side, the weaker

:52:10. > :52:12.pound is bringing in business, There are certain big productions

:52:13. > :52:18.that are happening at the moment, all the studios are all booked up,

:52:19. > :52:21.so you might get a different view from the studios,

:52:22. > :52:23.but we've also still got the TV Unravelling the ties the EU has

:52:24. > :52:28.with the British film industry will be difficult,

:52:29. > :52:31.and the question is, once we leave, will the rest of the world

:52:32. > :52:35.still want to invest? If the tax incentives change

:52:36. > :52:38.or anything with the European film industry changes and there's less

:52:39. > :52:40.work, then we have to address it. But at the moment, our staffing

:52:41. > :52:43.isn't affected by Brexit. We've still got the films that

:52:44. > :52:45.are working, that have been scheduled to work,

:52:46. > :52:49.so we don't know. Whilst we're all waiting

:52:50. > :52:51.for the conclusion of Brexit, The lack of men wanting

:52:52. > :52:55.to pick up the needle. Why do you think men aren't

:52:56. > :52:58.taking up costume design? It's something we've just noticed,

:52:59. > :53:06.a lot of people are applying for the jobs, for some reason maybe

:53:07. > :53:09.don't feel it's a male It's something we're looking

:53:10. > :53:12.at and it's something we'd love... You can't really fix it straight

:53:13. > :53:15.away, we have an apprenticeship programme and that's quite split,

:53:16. > :53:18.but the people for the other jobs, the majority of people coming

:53:19. > :53:24.on the costume side are female. TV, film and theatre have been

:53:25. > :53:28.the bedrock for Angels when it comes to costume making,

:53:29. > :53:31.but the fashion industry is increasingly becoming aware

:53:32. > :53:33.of its historical treasure trove and using it for inspiration,

:53:34. > :53:39.including most of the looks The devil is in the detail,

:53:40. > :53:44.like this dress worn by Gwyneth Paltrow for

:53:45. > :53:47.Shakespeare in Love. And why some of the actors

:53:48. > :53:49.and actresses don't replicate this I love the fact she got to wear that

:53:50. > :54:02.dress. Monday's programme will be

:54:03. > :54:04.an Oscars special - with all the reaction

:54:05. > :54:12.from the night's events. Back to the news a half brother of

:54:13. > :54:14.North Korea's leader was killed by a highly toxic chemical agent known as

:54:15. > :54:17.VX. Kim Jong-nam died while preparing

:54:18. > :54:19.to board a flight at CCTV footage showed two

:54:20. > :54:22.women briefly holding Let's get more on this now

:54:23. > :54:32.with our correspondent Tell us more about what they have

:54:33. > :54:37.found out about this agent that they think may have killed him?

:54:38. > :54:43.It very, very dangerous indeed. It's normally in a kind of oil but you

:54:44. > :54:50.only need a spot of it to kill somebody. In the video of the CCTV

:54:51. > :54:57.Eusebius Aston, one of the assassins put a cloth over the head of the

:54:58. > :55:01.victim. -- see the assassins. He appeared to have realised what had

:55:02. > :55:06.happened and was then looking for help urgently. There are some

:55:07. > :55:11.suggestions that one of the assassins has herself been infected.

:55:12. > :55:17.What the authorities are also doing, they are going to scour the airport,

:55:18. > :55:21.sweep the airport looking for traces of that chemical, or talking about

:55:22. > :55:28.radioactive traces, which indicates they fear that the team of assassins

:55:29. > :55:33.may have had various different sorts of weapons. We don't know that.

:55:34. > :55:38.Maybe in radioactive isotope. We don't know that, it's speculation.

:55:39. > :55:42.But what we do know is the Malaysian 's think a very serious chemical

:55:43. > :55:47.weapon, small amount of a chemical weapon has been used, and that would

:55:48. > :55:50.raise all kinds of questions about the chemical weapons industry in

:55:51. > :55:54.North Korea. Does the fact they think that was

:55:55. > :56:01.used then point the finger very squarely on North Korea? Where could

:56:02. > :56:06.that particular agent be got from? You are certainly talking about a

:56:07. > :56:11.serious laboratory and probably a laboratory run by a state or

:56:12. > :56:16.corporation of that kind of scale. I don't think anybody outside doubts

:56:17. > :56:23.that the main finger of suspicion and suspicion may be too weak a

:56:24. > :56:28.word, is pointing at North Korea. North Korea is sending out odd

:56:29. > :56:31.signals. It's saying it's a fabrication, it's all about

:56:32. > :56:36.politics, these allegations from the lazier, but we want the body. They

:56:37. > :56:40.are not naming the victim in North Korea and certainly not saying he is

:56:41. > :56:43.the half brother of Kim Jong-un but clearly taking a very close interest

:56:44. > :56:48.in him. In terms of the efforts to try and

:56:49. > :56:54.get the body and try to control the way this is being handled, what is

:56:55. > :57:00.happening with North Korea? Well, you can't control the

:57:01. > :57:05.situation where one of your adversaries has been killed,

:57:06. > :57:10.possibly by your own agents in a foreign country. You haven't got

:57:11. > :57:14.much control on that one! There is a war of words going on between the

:57:15. > :57:18.Malaysian authorities and North Korean authorities, with both sides

:57:19. > :57:26.accusing the other of lies. What we're not really seeing so far is

:57:27. > :57:29.the involvement of the United States, for example. The United

:57:30. > :57:34.States, certainly under the old administration, and I've got no

:57:35. > :57:38.doubts under the new administration, is concerned about the nuclear issue

:57:39. > :57:42.in North Korea. If this is borne out, if the Malaysians have got it

:57:43. > :57:47.right and a lot of people think they have, then we are talking about not

:57:48. > :57:52.just nuclear weapons but serious chemical weapons as well. That ramps

:57:53. > :57:55.up the politics of the things. Thank you very much, Steve.

:57:56. > :58:02.A couple of quick comments to bring you about Claudio Ranieri's sacking.

:58:03. > :58:06.A sad sign of The Times, players need to be more responsible for the

:58:07. > :58:11.failure, not just the manager. Another says although it is sad they

:58:12. > :58:15.have sacked Claudio Ranieri, there is no morality any more in football,

:58:16. > :58:17.players think about only one thing, money.

:58:18. > :58:19.Thank you for all of your comments today and your company.

:58:20. > :58:32.See you soon, have a lovely weekend, bye-bye.

:58:33. > :58:38.I've searched the world to find these extraordinary people.