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Hello, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling, | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
A Conservative win in the Copeland by-election in Cumbria. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The Tories beat labour in an area they have held since the 1930s. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
New MP Trudy Harrison called it historic. | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
What has happened here tonight is a truly historical event. You would | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
have to go back more than a century to find an example of the governing | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
party taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
this. And in Stoke on Trent Central | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
labour Gareth Snell beat Ukip's Paul Nuttall to hold the seat | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
known as the capital of Brexit. We will have all the political | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
reaction to both by-elections. The morning after the night before | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
and a massive boost for Theresa May while in Stoke, a crunch question | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
for Ukip. Are they on the ropes after they failed to beat Labour in | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
this big Brexit seat? Remember these scenes | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
as Leicester City defied odds of 5000-1 to become | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Premier League winners. Well, just nine months later | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
the club has sacked their manager Claudio Ranieri in a decision | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
they say was "painful but necessary" as results just | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
weren't good enough. Red carpets are being rolled | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
out ahead of the 89th We will be getting all the Oscars | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
gossip from LA and chatting with showbiz columnist Perez Hilton | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
about all the goings Hello, welcome to the programme, | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
we're live until 11 this morning. We are going to talk to some | :01:43. | :01:58. | |
of our Leicester City super fans who made diaries for us | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
about their beloved club and what they think about the man | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
they thought was a hero being sacked Do get in touch on all the stories | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
and if you text, you will be charged the words of new Conservative MP | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Trudy Harrison after winning the Labour seat of Copeland in last | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
night's by-election. It's the first gain | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
by a governing party since 1982. In the night's other result Labour | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
held on to Stoke Central, with Ukip leader Paul Nuttall | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
finishing in second place. Our Political Correspondent Tom | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Bateman sent us this report. Harrison, Trudy Lynne, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the Conservative Party candidate, Voters here had chosen a Labour MP | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
night as the Conservatives took What has happened here tonight | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
from the opposition party Labour had said the vote | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat, | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
their departing candidate The first time a Conservative has | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
represented the area But serious questions for Labour | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
of visiting a by-election seat It was a hard-fought campaign over | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
nuclear jobs and hospital services. The result leaves Labour | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
traditional seat for the party. They held on with | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
a reduced majority. This by-election was a test for Ukip | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
in a working-class area that voted It just managed second place, | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
but did increase its vote share. This seat was, what, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
number 72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know, | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
for Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn promised | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
he would reconnect with voters. He may have to try in spite | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
of futher opposition Our political correspondent | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
Iain Watson is in Copeland, and our political guru Norman Smith | :04:51. | :05:02. | |
is in Stoke. Ian first of all in Copeland, what | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
is your analysis of the implications of this result? Yes, not just my | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
analysis that talking to Labour MPs who have been campaigning here, the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
one thing they have said time and again is Jeremy Corbyn's leadership | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
has come up on prompted on the doorstep. When I say Labour MPs, as | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
you will note 85% of his own MPs voted for no confidence in him but I | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
am talking about people on the left of the Labour Party, some of them | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
have worked very closely with Jeremy Corbyn. They said there is no point | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
in pretending to you that this is not the case. Labour says there are | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
reasons why it did so badly here. Tom Bateman has talked about the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
historical nature of this. But this is a swing of almost 7% from the | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
opposition party to the governing party. Nothing like that have | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
happened at least since 1982, possibly since 1960. If that | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
happened across the country, neighbour already 100 seats behind, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the Conservatives would probably lose around another 50 seats. Labour | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
say that the Conservatives put that misinformation about the nuclear | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
industry. Sellafield is the biggest employer in this constituency. But | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's opponents say that as an excuse and not a reason. The | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
official Labour Party policy is pro-nuclear. Jeremy Corbyn said he | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
was in favour of new nuclear so the bigger question for Jeremy Corbyn is | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
if he is saying that he believes in the nuclear industry, why don't they | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
trust him when he says it? That question of trust will be hanging | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
over the leadership. I don't expect him to throw in the towel because of | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
this result, I simply expect pressure on him to increase. And | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Norman in Stoke, defeat for Ukip, what does it mean for Paul Nuttall? | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
A very good question. People will be asking what future for Paul Nuttall | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and what future for Ukip? This was a seat which should have been an | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
absolute plum seat for Ukip. It was probably one of the biggest | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
pro-Brexit seats in the country. It was a traditional working-class | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
Labour seat, the sort of seat where they said Wright, we will go after | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
these seats, this is where we can really capitalise. In the event they | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
have made almost zilch progress. Their vote went up 2%, hardly | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
anything at all. As for Mr Nuttall himself, he suffered a right old | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
roughhouse of a campaign and he sort of scuttled out of here with his | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
tail between his legs I think. The problem they face is where do they | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
go now? If they can't make any inroads here, where do they make | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
inroads? Inevitably, people will argue now we have Brexit, now we | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
have Nigel Farage has gone, now Theresa May has sort of shifted the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Tory party onto a lot of Ukip territory, what is the point in | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Ukip? I think they will face some very tough questions about whether | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
they are actually on the cusp of steady decline. Norman, thank you. | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
We will speak to the Ukip party chairman and also some MPs about | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
their take on what has happened in the by-election. Let's catch up with | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
the rest of the news. Annita is in the BBC Newsroom | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
with a summary of the rest Royal Bank of Scotland has reported | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
in the red. The figure represents a hefty | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
increase on the ?2 billion loss the bank reported last | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
year and is one of the group's biggest since its Government | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
bailout in 2008. Iraqi security forces have | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
recaptured Mosul airport, IS continued to fire mortars | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
at the airport from further inside the city after losing | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the ground to the army. The east and much of | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
the south-west of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked manager | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
Claudio Ranieri just nine months after he led the club's to its first | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Premier League title. The Foxes are only one point | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
above the relegation zone. Lester's board said the change was | :09:21. | :09:34. | |
painful but highly necessary. Malaysian police say the highly | :09:35. | :09:46. | |
toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
of Kim Jong Nam - the murdered half-brother | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
of North Korea's leader. VX is an extremely toxic Chemical | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
briefly holding something over Kim Jong Nam's face | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
while he was preparing to board a flight at | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
Kuala Lumpur airport last week. Our correspondent Rupert | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
Wingfield Hayes has more. They say they found traces of this | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
VX nerve agent on those swabs, and that is a very, very serious | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
thing to have found out, because VX is considered to be the most toxic | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
nerve agent ever invented. It was actually invented | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
in Britain in the 1950s. Large quantities of it were produced | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
in America and in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
but it has subsequently been banned under UN Chemical Convention, | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
and so the fact that it's been used here in this killing, | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
makes a whole new level Donald Trump says he wants to expand | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
America's nuclear arsenal. In his first comments on the issue | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
since taking office, Mr Trump said it would be | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
"wonderful" if no nation had nuclear arms, but otherwise the US must | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
be "top of the pack". Police investigating the escape | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
of a convicted murderer from custody have arrested two people | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
on suspicion of Merseyside Police detained | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman in Liverpool in connection | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
with Shaun Walmsley's escape. Walmsley went on the run when two | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
armed men confronted prison officers guarding him at a hospital | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
on Tuesday afternoon. More universities in England will be | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
soon be able to offer degree courses which last for just two years | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
under new plans. In return they will be able | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
to increase annual tuition fees to more than ?13,000 - | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
although the overall cost of a degree will still | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
be capped at ?27,000. The clear-up continues this morning | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
after Storm Doris battered much of the UK leaving one woman dead | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
after being hit by flying debris. Winds of up to 94mph caused power | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
cuts and travel chaos as flights were grounded | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
and train services disrupted. Drivers are being warned to be | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
wary of ice on the roads in Scotland, Northern Ireland, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
and North West England. It's been discovered bumblebees can | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
teach each other how to score goals with a tiny ball, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
displaying a learning ability They surprised scientists by working | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
out how to obtain a food reward In the experiment, the bees | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
were placed on a platform and had to roll a yellow ball to a specific | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
location in order to Those that observed the success | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
of other bees were better at learning the task than those that | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
didn't. That's a summary of the latest BBC | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
News - more at 9.30. I absolutely love that story! That | :12:22. | :12:36. | |
is so cool. Vinnie says I am an Arsenal supporter and the sacking of | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Claudio Ranieri is wrong. Blame the players who got big-money contracts | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
and cars. What do you think about him being sacked just nine months | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
after Leicester City defied the odds to win the Premiership. Let us know | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
your thoughts. We will weave them into our discussions. We will talk | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
to our super fans later. Do get in touch with us | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport now | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
with Hugh Woozencroft - Hero to zero in such a short period | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
of time? Yes, that is right. | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
The story covering every single back page today is of course | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
the sacking of Claudio Ranieri as Leicester City manager. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
It comes with the current Premier League Champions | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
sitting 17th in the table, just one point above the drop zone. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
But after their miraculous season last year, the club now see survival | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
as its primary target, despite still being in the European | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Let's speak now to BBC Leicester's football commentator | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Ian Stringer, who is outside the | :13:42. | :13:42. | |
Ian, this seems to have been reacted to with a lot of shock. What have | :13:43. | :13:54. | |
you made of it and the fans you have spoken to? Morning. It is a pretty | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
quiet King Power Stadium over my shoulder this morning. People have | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
been winding down their windows and singing Claudio Ranieri's name. You | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
mentioned in the introduction hero to zero but he will always have the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
hero status here after lifting the trophy which the club had not won in | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
132 years. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the | :14:17. | :14:32. | |
Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
their heroes led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
motion in the city and there is upset. There is some anger as well. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Cloudy over is still a hero in many people's eyes. -- Claudio is still a | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
hero. Everyone can remember the trophy being hoisted aloft but the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
search for a new manager begins. There are suggestions today that a | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
breakdown in his relationship with the players was at the heart of this | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
dismissal. What you make of those claims? | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
He clearly had support from... Support from the dressing room was | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
dwindling, that's been quite clear. There have been suggestions for a | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
couple weeks, were they playing for Claudio Ranieri? There are banners | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
here for Wes Morgan, cash but Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy, with | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
champions etched on the side of the stadium. This stadium is wrapped in | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
some of these heroes. Many of those are the senior players you | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
mentioned. I understand the sentiment and the point. Whether | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
there was an irretrievable breakdown of a relationship or not, I'm not | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
sure we will ever know but it was quite clear there were problems in | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
the dressing room and with some of the players and with a relationship | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
with the manager. Were they still playing for Claudio that remains to | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
be seen. The fact remains they were only 2-1 down to Sevilla in the | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
Champions League. This time a few days ago I was at the Apple | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
reflecting on a good 2-1 defeat, they are still in that tie. The | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Italian has got Leicester City to the last 16 of the Champions League | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
and now has been sacked. Just before you go, just quickly, who are the | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
men being mentioned as a potential replacement? Roberto Mancini's name | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
has been mentioned a lot in the city this morning. The King Power Stadium | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
was built in the early 2000s. Roberto Mancini played four times | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
for the foxes in 2001 in a loan spell. I remember watching himself | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
as a boy, great touch and experienced professional. There is | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
talk he may be the favourite but there are lots of names being | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
bandied around in the city of Leicester. To be honest, we're only | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
just getting over the divorce with Claudio Ranieri, a new relationship | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
seems a long, long way away at the moment. Thank you. We will see what | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
the club decides in the future. Joanna, that is all the sport for | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
now but more on this coming up at ten o'clock. | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
Thank you very much, see you later. The Conservatives have pulled off | :17:14. | :17:14. | |
an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
to Labour's Gillian But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600 | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
to become his party's second MP. the former Health Minister | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
and Conservative MP Dr Dan Poulter Dan, a stunning Tory victory, first | :17:47. | :18:12. | |
win by governing party there for many years. What do you put it down | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
to? Certainly it's a very good result for the Conservative Party | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
and a good result for the government. What we have seen is | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
that it's very difficult for a governing party to win a | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
by-election, as you say for the first time in 30 or 40 years this | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
government has managed to achieve that. That is a strong endorsement | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
of Theresa May and a strong endorsement of Trudy Harrison, the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
candidate who won the election. Was it special circumstances? In a | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
constituency where thousands of jobs depend on the nuclear industry and | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's historic opposition to that proved to be a problem for | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Labour? Well, of course in any by-election | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
there are factors in place. Some of those local factors on some national | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
factors. It's always expected the main opposition does well in | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
national by-elections. That wasn't the case. What this by-election has | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
shown, from what I believe, and what I pick up in my own constituency and | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
elsewhere in the country, is there is a very strong belief in Theresa | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
May as our Prime Minister and that is something that was borne out of | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
this election result today. You see it more as a victory for | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Theresa May than a vote against Labour and Jeremy Corbyn | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
specifically? Well, certainly... I don't | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
particularly like to pass comment on other political parties... But the | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
politics is won by building a coalition of voters. It's very | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
important that any party that wants to be in government can build a | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
coalition of voters that includes middle ground voters. That's | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
something David did very successfully in considering | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
delivering a Conservative majority at the last election, something | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Theresa May has achieved. I'm not sure Jeremy Corbyn is appealing to | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
those people outside of the very hard left of the Labour vote. That's | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
something that will prove a real challenge for Labour, if they ever | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
want to become a party of government again. Andrew Green, seven years of | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
austerity under Tory government. Previously coalition government as | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
well. A row in the constituency over the closure of maternity services in | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
hospital and still Labour could not pull it off. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
Of course, we had a disappointing night here in Copeland at a mixed | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
fixture across the country. Gareth Snell became a new member of | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. But that's not to say that | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
here in Copeland we ended up with the result that we would sooner not | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
have had. But, of course, I've been here since the start of January. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
What I've seen is one of the most polarised election campaigns that | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
I've ever known, basically centred around two issues. One, as you | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
rightly say, the potential downgrade of NHS services at West Cumberland | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Hospital. The other was the nuclear industry. We were able to convince | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
people to come out and vote to try and save their NHS services here in | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
West Cumbria, but at the end of the day we weren't able to convince | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
enough people that the Labour Party is a pro-civil nuclear party. Who | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
takes the blame for that? What are the lessons to be learned? Where do | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
you put the problem? Well, the point is we have a job now, to reconnect | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
with communities like Copeland. That is the challenge for the Labour | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Party going forward... Sorry, looking back to the campaign for a | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
moment. You said that Labour failed to convince voters on the issue of | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
nuclear. Whose fault is that? It was a very heavily fought campaign. It | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
was a vicious campaign in many respects, on both of those different | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
issues. We were unable to convince enough people that the Labour Party | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
not only backs civil nuclear as part of an important energy mix, in order | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
to keep the lights on, but also that the Labour Party was the only party | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
that was committed to using a public equity in order to secure the future | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
jobs at the new power station, chateau Sheba pull-out. Sorry to | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
interrupt again, but the reason... -- should dump a pull-out. The | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
reason it was an issue for the Labour Party is Jeremy Corbyn's | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
leadership and his historic position on this. Does Jeremy Corbyn take the | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
blame for the fact the party lost? Look, this isn't about one person. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
The point is we've had two years of introspection in the Labour Party | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
with two leadership contest. The last thing the Labour Party needs | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
ahead. What we've got to do is reconnect with communities like | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Copeland, that's a challenge, but we've got to be able to show we're | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
listening to people here on the ground and that we are building | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
policies ahead of the 2020 general election, and that we are speaking | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
up for working communities, whether it is here in the north-west of | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
England or in the Midlands in Stoke-on-Trent or elsewhere in the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
country. That is something for Labour Party now has to do. It has | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
to dust itself down after Copeland, we have to look at the success in | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Stoke and to learn lessons there as well, about how we've seen off Ukip. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
But we've got to make sure that we are fully reconnected with those | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
communities that we seek to serve. Paul Oakden, chairman of Ukip. 70% | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
of voters in Stoke voted for Brexit. You might have thought Ukip were a | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
shoo-in in the by-election but Labour took it, what went wrong for | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
Ukip? Incorrectly assumed we were clear favourites to win. We thought | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
we had a good chance and we went into yesterday with high hopes and | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
optimism. Sadly, the four week campaign we had wasn't enough to | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
introduce ourselves and our newly dead to the voters in Stoke-on-Trent | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Central, but we are please coming out of yesterday. Disappointed but | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
pleased we managed to improve on our vote result in 2015... By 2%. 2% is | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
a step forward and not a step back. Given that the last time we fought | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
campaign in Stoke it was pre-referendum, with Nigel Farage as | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the leader. Both of those things have now come and gone. We have a | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
new leader who has only been in the post for 12 weeks. I thought it was | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
incredibly brave for him to put himself forward as a candidate. We | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
improved on our vote share and our party came together in a way hasn't | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
done for a long time to rally around our candidate and leader, Paul | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Nuttall. There's a lot to be hopeful for. It's a stepping stone. It was a | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
disappointing night because we thought we might win but it gives us | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
optimism for the future. What about that row over Hillsborough and the | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
false claim he personally knew people died at Hillsborough? How | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
much did that overshadow what happened there and how much does it | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
tarnish him as leader? From Paul Nuttall's perspective it | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
overshadowed a campaign he was looking forward to with optimism and | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
vigour. He took responsibility for something that was put onto his | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
website that he hadn't seen. He took responsibility for that. The person | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
that wrote and published it took responsibility for doing that, too. | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
It was very unfortunate on a very sensitive issue that Paul feels very | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
deeply. That will have had an impact on him. To what extent that impacted | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
on the referendum campaign, who knows? On the doorsteps of Stoke | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Hillsborough was something mentioned to us very much at all. There were | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
other things people wanted to talk about. Yes, it took something away | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
from our campaign and that was regrettable, but I wouldn't blame | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
that media narrative for costing us the election. Ukip came in second | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
place but actually only 79 votes ahead of the Tories. The Ukip | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
narrative was that Ukip would be representing Labour voters and | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
taking away votes from Labour. You didn't do that. The Tories are now | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
pushing forward with Brexit, which was previously the raison d'etre for | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
four Ukip, what is the next step for Ukip, where does it go as a party? | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
As we've said quite widely this morning, Stoke on Central was a key | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
seat we were looking out with interest in 2015 but there were | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
several other seats we had better hopes for ahead of the general | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
election last time. So why did Paul Nuttall stand there? Why did he | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
staked his reputation and standing now? Because Paul Nuttall believes | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
in leading from the front and that's what he did by making himself a | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
candidate in this election. That's why it was a courageous thing to do | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
and why our party are wholesome in their support of him as a leader | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
this morning. When Paul got back to eye headquarters last night after | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
the count he was greeted by several standing ovations from members. I | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
think you did the right thing by standing and the right thing in this | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
campaign by fighting the campaign it was a very positive campaign. At no | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
point did we say anything negative about the Labour candidate, | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
something I'm proud of. It didn't get as to where we wanted to go but | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
I'm sure next time it will. Thank you all very much indeed for joining | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
us. Iraqi forces continue | :28:08. | :28:08. | |
their advance into Mosul. We'll be hearing from people | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
across the country. And Leicester City manager Claudio | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
Ranieri has been sacked by the club, nine months after leading them | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
to the Premier League title. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
with a summary of todays news. The Conservatives have won | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
the the Cumbrian seat of Copeland, which had been in Labour's hands | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
for more than 80 years. Trudy Harrison took the seat | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
with a majority of more than 2000. Labour held Stoke Central | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
in the night's other by-election, with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
finishing in second place. Royal Bank of Scotland has reported | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
in the red. The figure represents a hefty | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
increase on the ?2 billion pound loss the bank reported last year | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
and is one of the group's biggest since its Government | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
bailout in 2008. Iraqi forces says they have now | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
moved into west Mosul for the first time, a day after capturing | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
the city's airport from Yesterday's operation | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
at the airport from further from further inside the city, | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
after losing the ground to the army. The east and much of the south-west | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
manager Claudio Ranieri - just nine months after he led | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
the club to the The win was the biggest | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
triumph for the Foxes But the team is currently one place | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
above the relegation zone. Leicester's board said the change | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
was "painful but necessary". Malaysian police say the highly | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half-brother of North Korea's | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
leader. VX is an extremely toxic chemical | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
briefly holding something over Kim Jong-nam's face | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
while he was preparing to board a flight at Kuala Lumpur | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
airport last week. A group of conservation charities | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
is launching its biggest ever recruitment drive to help protect | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
the native red squirrel. A total of 5,000 volunteers | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
are required across England, They will help protect resident | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
squirrel populations. Researchers say the species remains | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
under threat because of disease and competition for food from larger | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
grey squirrels, from north America. That's a summary of the latest | :30:34. | :30:41. | |
BBC News - more at 10. Thank you. Loads of you getting in | :30:42. | :31:04. | |
touch. Someone says I am a season ticket holder for many years at | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
Leicester. I am ashamed of what they have done. Don't blame Claudio, | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
blamed the lazy complacent players for the results. Another says I am | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
very shocked and sad, where is the loyalty? I hope the players feel | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
ashamed. Another said I hate football and even I think the | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
sacking of Claudio Ranieri is wrong. He took a nowhere team to the top | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
and this is how he is treated. Blame the money that went to the players' | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
heads. And Kevin says he deserves to be kept to the end of the season. He | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
and back and a change of manager at this stage of the season is probably | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
less likely to see improvement. Thank you for all of those comments, | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
do keep them coming in. Now more with you. | :31:51. | :32:02. | |
Interestingly, Leicester were one of the richest clubs in Europe. In | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
terms of the money, Claudio Ranieri brought in a lot of that. | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss is the early | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester. | :32:15. | :32:16. | |
It's being reported the club have made an approach | :32:17. | :32:18. | |
for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001. | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
Manchester United will be the only British team | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
French side Catalan Dragons are the new leaders | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
They won 16-14 in a bruising encounter away at Hull FC | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
and there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune. | :32:54. | :33:00. | |
I will be back with more sport just after ten o'clock. | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
See you then. Thank you. Iraqi forces have begun their attack | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
on the western part of Mosul. This is just hours after | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
the significant breakthrough of capturing the city's airport | :33:11. | :33:12. | |
from Islamic State fighters. Capturing the airport was very | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
significant in the push to regain control of the western part | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
of the city. The eastern half was re-taken | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
by government forces last month. After a night heavy of airstrikes, | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
troops are now moving from the surrounding desert | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
and farmland to the city itself. In a moment we'll speak to people | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
in Iraq but before here's the latest on the battle in Mosul and why it | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
matters. They spared no chance to hurt | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
the people, whether physically or She told me that her dream | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
was to eat one piece of bread once again and to live | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
and forget the memories of the war. Beheading was the new ghost, | :33:50. | :34:43. | |
haunting the city for so many There were a lot of rules that | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
you have to obey them, otherwise you are guilty and you may | :34:49. | :34:57. | |
even face death. They are not afraid | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
of what is happening, they are afraid of Isil that can | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
break into their home at any time. My message to the whole world, | :35:07. | :36:45. | |
to the decision-maker of the world, for those who can make a change, | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
please help in liberating the whole Mosul has been | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
suffering for too long. We can now speak to Jumana Mumtaz, | :36:59. | :37:12. | |
an Iraqi blogger based in Baghdad, who has family trapped | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
in Western Mosul, Cengiz Yar, a photojournalist | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
who was with the Iraqi federal police | :37:20. | :37:21. | |
as they took control of the city's airport yesterday | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
and Bruno Geddo from the UNHCR. Thank you very much for joining us. | :37:25. | :37:37. | |
Cengiz Yar, tell us what it was like as control was taken of the airport. | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
There was a lot of incoming and outgoing shelling yesterday. The day | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
before was mainly outgoing. Forces moved in rather quickly. I think | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
more quickly than everyone expected. And there was heavy fighting | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
throughout the day. In the afternoon it seemed to calm down a little bit. | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
And tell us more about what you have been doing as you got to this point. | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
You have been involved in raids on IS sleeper cells in eastern Mosul? I | :38:09. | :38:20. | |
have been covering the Mosul offensive for the past four months. | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
It is wave after wave, as they move further into the city, different | :38:23. | :38:24. | |
challenges that the forces are facing, whether it be helping | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
civilians escape, keeping them safe on dealing with car bombs and IDDs. | :38:29. | :38:35. | |
In the newly recaptured territory, we are seeing security forces trying | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
to find the remaining Isis sleeper cells that had stayed behind of the | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
units retreated into the western areas of the city. Jumana, I said | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
you are a blogger based in Baghdad. You are originally from Mosul and | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
you have family there. Tell us what contact you have been able to have | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
with family there? I tried yesterday to call my relatives there. They | :39:01. | :39:10. | |
were living in the east bank but when the Iraqi offensive started | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
they moved to the West because they thought the situation there would be | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
more stable for them, but actually they are now facing a very hard | :39:20. | :39:32. | |
starvation and actually, it is lower and there is not enough fuel or | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
anything to keep them warm so they burned their furniture. But my | :39:40. | :39:49. | |
relatives also they have been displaced from the east bank to the | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
West Bank so they don't have any furniture and they have nothing to | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
eat any more. They lost their health and also there is no protection in | :39:57. | :40:06. | |
their house. The houses in the old city of Mosul have no protection. | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
They are afraid of Isil that at any moment they can break into their | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
home. We don't know what will happen with the next couple of days or | :40:18. | :40:28. | |
couple of weeks, because it is showing that the battle will take | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
more time. As we talk to you, we are seeing live pictures of the battle | :40:35. | :40:43. | |
for Mosul. Bruno Geddo, there are 650,000 civilians trapped in western | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
Mosul, what are your concerns for them? We have two major concerns. | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
The first one is that we hope to continue to benefit from the | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
commitment of the Iraqi security forces who are upholding | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
international humanitarian law, which means putting civilians at the | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
centre of their operation. This was done in the East successfully, | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
because we had a very manageable outflow in total of 220,000 people, | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
because fighting was carried out with small weapons, not heavy | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
artillery. The destruction of property was limited so civilians | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
did not feel compelled to flee. The West has additional problems because | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
wherein the east of the population was more scattered, in the West, | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
there are areas which are densely populated and the old city is built | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
in a labyrinthine way with narrow alleys. So it may require fighting | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
house by house, hand by hand, on foot rather than going in with | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
armoured vehicles, so this is the first concern. The Iraqi security | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
forces will be able to uphold detection even in a fighting | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
environment which is more complex than in the East. The second problem | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
is by the sheer number of people at risk, possibly more than 700,000, we | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
have a worst-case scenario of 400,000 fleeing. We are planning for | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
250,000. We need more capacity, more space, not only in the East where | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
the existing camps are at capacity, but also in the south, where we are | :42:39. | :42:49. | |
running against the clock to help the additional 10,000 families. | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
Thank you very much indeed, that is Cengiz Yar, Jumana Mumtaz and Bruno | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
Geddo, thank you. We are just getting some breaking news from the | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
Electoral Commission. We are hearing that investigations are being | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
launched into the spending returns in both campaigns in last year's EU | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
referendum. That has been announced by the Electoral Commission which is | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
looking into the spending returns into both of the lead campaigns in | :43:21. | :43:22. | |
the referendum last year. The Welsh football legend | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
Gareth Bale talks to the BBC about football, advice | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
for youngsters and why Nine months ago he was hailed a hero | :43:31. | :43:32. | |
when he took Leicester City It was like a fairy-tale | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
for the Foxes, as they're also known, and for manager Claudio | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
Ranieri. He was sacked by Leicester's | :43:45. | :43:46. | |
board on Thursday The dream has become a nightmare | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
with Leicester City now ranked just But here's a reminder | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
of the club's finest season. Let's start with this, | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
Claudio Ranieri is back. The Tinker Man is the brand-new | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
manager of Leicester City. I don't think you'd have put him | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
at the top of anyone's They're going to be one | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
of seven or eight teams that are going to be down there, | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
scrapping for every point. Leicester City have come back | :44:19. | :44:20. | |
from two goals down. If they finish in the top six | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
this year, they will And that is Vardy's goal in an 11th | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
consecutive league match! They may well be top | :44:34. | :44:42. | |
of the tree at Christmas time. It would be one of the most | :44:43. | :44:53. | |
extraordinary stories of all time. Now Leicester are bound | :44:54. | :45:05. | |
for the Premier League title! When Hazard scored that absolute | :45:06. | :45:15. | |
worldy into the top, I went mental. You're a grown man, you've | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
got tears in your eyes. The impossible dream | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
is now a reality. Are you saying to me, | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
"Have they been the best They have blown apart | :45:31. | :45:33. | |
the established order It's the biggest ever sporting | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
achievement in Britain, 2016, in the Premier League, | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
it's the Year of the Fox! The most improbable result meant | :45:46. | :46:00. | |
that Match of the Day host and Leicester fan had a keep | :46:01. | :46:08. | |
a promise to host episode of the new season in his pants, | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
if his side won the Premier League. This morning a very sombre Gary | :46:12. | :46:21. | |
Lineker gave his reaction to the sacking of Claudio Ranieri. | :46:22. | :46:23. | |
Well, it's a sign of modern football but what happened last season | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
was truly extraordinary under Claudio Ranieri. | :46:27. | :46:28. | |
I think the lack of gratitude from the owners of the club | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
and who knows who else is involved in such a decision, it | :46:35. | :46:36. | |
Yes, in recent times we have seen a few managers lose their jobs | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
after winning the Premier League, but they were managers of clubs that | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
expected to win titles and spend enough money on their clubs just | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
to, I suppose they can kind of justify that. | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
We have seen it in some of the big clubs in the world, | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
the Real Madrids etc, but for a club like Leicester to win | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
the league last season and the magnificence of that story, | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
and the likeability of that club, especially | :47:08. | :47:08. | |
under Claudio Ranieri, the ultimate gentleman, | :47:09. | :47:11. | |
It takes away from the glory of last season and where is Leicester | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
were hugely popular with everyone right around the world, | :47:18. | :47:19. | |
to do something like this now I think loses a lot | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
That season will remain with us forever and it was truly special. | :47:23. | :47:30. | |
A lot of that was, of course, down to the management. | :47:31. | :47:32. | |
The same guy now can't be considered incapable of doing his job | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
just a few months later, having achieved what was, for me, | :47:38. | :47:39. | |
But for me, I shed a tear last night. | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
I shed a tear for Claudio, I shed a tear for football | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
It is inexplicable to me and it is inexplicable to a lot | :47:48. | :47:58. | |
of football fans who love the game, but I suppose in some ways, | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
you can explain it in terms of a panic decision and, for me, | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
Gary Lineker. How much has changed in nine months? | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
In a moment we'll some reaction from passionate | :48:14. | :48:15. | |
and shocked Leicester fans, and from the former Leicester | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
player Steve Claridge, but first we can speak | :48:19. | :48:19. | |
to John Percy, the Midlands Football reporter from the Daily Telegraph. | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
Why has he gone? I think it's been coming, I really | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
do. Despite our season, remarkable story, the fairy tale, this season | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
has been dreadful. Performances have been or for other team tactics have | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
been bewildering, team tactics have confused the players. I don't think | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
it is a panic issue, since November there have been problems and | :48:44. | :48:45. | |
performances have completely dropped. I understand the outrage | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
and you have to question the timing, after the defeat in Sevilla that | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
felt like a turning point, but I feel it has been coming and they are | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
terrified of being relegated, which is the ultimate fear. We are getting | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
loads and loads of comments via social media from fans. People are | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
criticising the players are not the manager. I can understand that. The | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
players, many of them highly rewarded in the summer for the title | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
win. They have completely dropped off. I'd say there have only been | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
one or two that have maintained the standards from our season. They have | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
to look themselves in the eye. Lots of talks of that. But the things no | :49:24. | :49:31. | |
one will be surprised about is if they play Liverpool on Monday night | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
and when. What about the view of the chairman? The tide family have come | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
in, spent a lot of money and supported the club, the club the | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
24th richest club in Europe, which is amazing. -- the Thai family. But | :49:46. | :49:53. | |
now they have done this which will be unpopular with the fans? Yes, but | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
looking at Twitter last night not as much outrage as perhaps expected. | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
They put a lot of money in. A few years ago they predicted a top six | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
club, relegation wasn't on the menu. They must be feeling awful today. | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
They didn't want to do it. It's like Lou shot Bambi. They didn't want to | :50:12. | :50:18. | |
do it, they've had five wins all season. From champions to the | :50:19. | :50:20. | |
championship, they can't allow that to happen. Thank you very much, | :50:21. | :50:22. | |
John. Steve Claridge is a former | :50:23. | :50:23. | |
Leicester player - who scored the winning goal | :50:24. | :50:25. | |
in their League Cup final in 1997 - the last time Leicester | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
won a trophy. What is your reaction to the | :50:29. | :50:37. | |
sacking? Sadness, disappointment and possibly in the way it's been done, | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
the fact he's been sacked rather than moved upstairs, someone brought | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
in to help. Not really shocked, because staying in the premiership | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
now is the be all and end all. It's been tough going this year. The team | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
has been completely different, the polar opposite to what we saw last | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
year. Probably more of what was expected, rather than what we | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
imagined would happen. What do you put that down to? Obviously all came | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
together in this alchemy last year and it has fallen apart so quickly. | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
It did. I think it is a different team now... I know Kante is out, | :51:18. | :51:26. | |
gone on a big loss. When you get the situation they had last year, you | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
know everyone is working at full capacity. Nobody could have played | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
any better. Now all of a sudden you had decent players playing | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
incredibly well and maybe everybody else in the division may be not at | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
their best. This year you have good players playing incredibly poorly. | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
More is being asked of the manager this year than it was last year. And | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
you have to say, in certain circumstances he has come up short. | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
It has been a different job, a different job role with a different | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
jobs back to what he had to do last year you felt things looked after | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
themselves and he was wonderful at what he had to do, took a lot of | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
pressure off the players, oversaw everything, kept everything ticking | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
along brilliantly. As you say, he is a true gentleman. He is the last | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
person in football anyone would have liked this talented, but maybe it | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
was a different role this year that was required and in some respects he | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
has come up a little bit short. I don't think yet again, that is a | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
major surprise. Sorry to interrupt. It's easy to sack the manager in | :52:27. | :52:33. | |
football, and that's... Players have contracts that are written in stone. | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
You can sack manager and a manager can walk out of his contract. | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
Players you can't sack and they can't walk out of their contracts. | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
The two contracts are completely different, one is written in stone | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
and one is written on a little bit of paper you can throw into the | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
wind. Totally different circumstances. Is he the fall guy, | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
I'm fairly? I think there is certainly a case for him to stay and | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
a case for him to go. We've seen it time and time again in cup | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
competitions. The FA Cup, that's been denigrated by clubs taking that | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
less seriously than they should do because, the perception is if they | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
win the FA Cup they will get relegated, which is silly. Being in | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
the premiership is the be all and end all. There is no room for | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
sentiment, there is no loyalty, unfortunately, from anybody. I just | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
wish somebody, a true gentleman, it could possibly have been done a bit | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
differently. Sacking, I think, does him a bit of a disservice. Thank | :53:31. | :53:32. | |
you, Steve. We followed Leicester's progress | :53:33. | :53:34. | |
all last season with a couple of super fans recording | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
video diaries for us - here's a little reminder of how | :53:38. | :53:39. | |
the journey ended. # Championes, Championes, | :53:40. | :53:56. | |
Ole, Ole, Ole!#. All we could do is hope and dream, | :53:57. | :54:12. | |
and the dream's just getting bigger and bigger and more fraught and it | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
culminates in what has been the most fantastic season for | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
a Leicester City supporter that I've known in 53 years of coming | :54:27. | :54:28. | |
down to support them. The stuff dreams are made she said. | :54:29. | :54:30. | |
She joins us now along with Martin Morley, and Matt Davies who's | :54:31. | :54:52. | |
the vice chair of the Sandra, how much has changed in nine | :54:53. | :55:01. | |
months? What do you think about the sacking of Claudio Ranieri? I'm | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
absolutely disgusted, not the fact he's had to go, but just the way | :55:07. | :55:12. | |
it's been done. It's totally devastated us. | :55:13. | :55:14. | |
So what do you think should have been done? | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
I think he should have been taken to one side, I think the players should | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
have been taken out and birch done told how to play properly and at | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
least try to support the manager, because he supported them all the | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
way through. He's made mistakes and we know that, but at the end of the | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
day it's a game of football. He hasn't got two legs on the pitch, | :55:35. | :55:37. | |
the players have and they haven't performed. | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
Why do you think that is? You are clearly angry with these players who | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
we were all completely in love with last year? | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
In love with them... Bigger contracts, more money, fancy cars | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
and allegedly they are complaining about no chicken burgers on the | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
menu! I don't know who they think they are. We, the fans, have spent | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
thousands this season supporting them, made a lot of effort | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
travelling and whatever, and there's been some of the matches where they | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
might as well have been having their hair done. | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
Gosh, you are so angry, obviously. Do you feel really let down? | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
I feel really let down. Claudio did his job last year. OK, this year, he | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
should have been supported in what he had to do this year and the | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
players have let him down. Martin. Sandra is putting the blame | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
with the players, how do you see things? | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
First of all as a Leicester fan all of my life I'd like to thank Claudio | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
For a dream, a dream as a football fan. All I expected Leicester to win | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
with the FA Cup fourth. For him to galvanise the city where a quarter | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
of a million people turned out when they arrived back with the | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
premiership trophy... And first of all, to the owners, two weeks ago | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
they came, made the journey and said they gave him a vote of confidence. | :57:00. | :57:03. | |
I think it was a done deal before this game with Sevilla but he put | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
Leicester on the map like know any other event. I'd like to say, I'm | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
hearing about the players, splits in the changing rooms... If these were | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
splits in the changing room, these are not household names before they | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
won the league, perhaps Jamie Vardy, but he's brought them to the summit | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
and unfortunately now he's gone. I completely agree with what Gary | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
Lineker says, he's a fan like me and Michael Leicester fans. We were | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
going nowhere as far as I was concerned, but if someone had said | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
to me at the beginning of this season -- last season that they were | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
again win the premiership and then get relegated I would have snapped | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
their hand. I had a dream and it's been the field. Claudio, on behalf | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
of me most of Leicester, thank you very much for what you did. Matt, | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
we're hearing the same theme over and over again, how do you see it? | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
I think a lot of it has been said already. I'd sum it up like this, if | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
at the end of the great escape season I was given a Leicester City | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
genie and the option of next season you will win, you will get to the | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
top, you will win, you will have a quarter of a million people actually | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
celebrating you, you will have a wonderful season and the season | :58:25. | :58:26. | |
after that you won't farewell at all, I'd have taken it, to be | :58:27. | :58:32. | |
honest. Being a fan and watching them 39 seasons, to me, what he | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
achieved last year, and it has already been said by your other | :58:37. | :58:39. | |
callers, was absolutely fantastic. I'm so sorry that the fairy tale has | :58:40. | :58:43. | |
ended. You take the rough with the smooth. Does that mean because he | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
achieved what he did, he should have just been able to kind of go through | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
a bad season and just see where things went? | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
I have to be honest, I would have stuck with him. We needed to find | :58:56. | :59:02. | |
another 19 points in 13 games. I started to see, I don't know if it | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
was my heart ruling my head, but I started to see a chink in the | :59:07. | :59:10. | |
Champions League game. That goal that Jamie Vardy scored was typical | :59:11. | :59:13. | |
of some of the goals we were scoring towards the end of last season and I | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
started to see a chink and I thought, we go. Hopefully we're just | :59:18. | :59:21. | |
starting to a corner now, we've got the likes of Sunderland and Hull to | :59:22. | :59:31. | |
play... We'll camp and it round. Thank you all. I just want to read a | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
quick e-mail, Leicester City 's teaching kids that if you do | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
something really amazing and then can't repeat it again, you get | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
sacked. Do keep your thoughts coming in. Lots of you getting in touch on | :59:44. | :59:46. | |
we'd love to hear from you on everything we are talking about as | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
always. But now, the weather with Nick. Doris has gone that has left | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
her mark. Absolutely, still some disruption | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
and plenty of clearing up to do but it's certainly a different weather | :00:01. | :00:01. | |
picture across the UK today. A much quieter story. Clearly the | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
calm after the storm from your weather watcher pictures so far | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
today. Some lovely sunrise shots from earlier and it is looking much | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
more settled. It is colder, some of us had frost this morning, some | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
patchy ice in the northern half of UK. Where has Doris gone? Swept away | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
further east, gone through Germany and Poland overnight. We have some | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
high pressure building into the UK, although there is another Westerner | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
system coming our way that is not as powerful as Doris. For Northern | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Ireland there will be outbreaks of rain spreading in, that should be | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
across most of us going into the first part of the afternoon. It | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
pushes into western Scotland with a freshening breeze. Elsewhere, if you | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
started with plenty of sunshine, some cloud building and you may | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
catch an isolated shower. This is the picture at three o'clock this | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
afternoon. There is the rain into Northern Ireland, pushing into | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
western Scotland. The breeze picking up. Later today in north-west | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Scotland there will be gales. Tonight, as the rain pushes across | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Portland stone mills before it turns back to rain. Cloud increasing into | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
north-west England and West counties of Wales. Elsewhere ploughed on some | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
sunny spells, still the odd shower in the Midlands but the vast | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
majority will stay dry. Single figure temperatures for many of us. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
The weekend, the south-westerly wind coming back and it will turn milder | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
again. The wind will pick up once more but not on the scale of Storm | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Doris. There will be rain around at times and quite heavy in the hills | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
of western Scotland, into the higher ground of Cumbria, where there could | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
be a lot of rain this weekend. Not much in the south-east. Although the | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
weather turns unsettled again nothing on the scale of Storm Doris. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
The Conservatives unseat Labour in the Copeland by-election, causing | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
But Labour hangs on to Stoke Central, fending off | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
The new Tory MP Trudy Harrison says Labour no longer represent the local | :02:01. | :02:22. | |
people. We have had Labour here for eight years but it is clear that | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Jeremy Corbyn does not represent them. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
He's one of the world's most expensive footballers - | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Gareth Bale opens up about the Wales' amazing run | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
at the Euros last year and what's next for him. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
My ultimate dream was to play in a major competition for Wales and | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
obviously, we achieved that and more, I suppose. But I suppose you | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
have to go back to the drawing board and put some more dreams on that. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup or | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
As the stars dust off their tuxedos and make final tweaks | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
to their glamourous outfits before the Oscars this weekend, | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
we'll bring you up to speed on the latest Hollywood gossip. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place. | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Labour's election strategist warned the party against | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
We have had two years of introspection in the Labour Party | :03:29. | :03:43. | |
with two leadership contests. The last thing the Labour Party needs | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
ahead. What we have to do is reconnect with communities like | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Copland. That is a challenge but we have got to be able to show that we | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
are listening to people here on the ground and that we are building | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
policies ahead of the 2020 general election. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
The Electoral Commission has published the detail of where ?27 | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
million which was spent on the referendum went. However, the | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
commission is concerned that both campaigns have not sent in all their | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
invoices and receipts to show where the money went to. It is not yet | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
clear whether any offences have been committed. | :04:31. | :04:31. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
its ninth consecutive year in the red. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
the bank reported last year and is one of the group's biggest | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
since its Government bailout in 2008. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
time, a day after capturing the city's airport from | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Yesterday's operation took four hours. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
inside the city after losing the ground to the army. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX, | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
has been found on the face of Kim Jong-Nam - | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
VX is an extremely toxic Chemical warfare agent and just a drop | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
over Kim Jong-Nam's face while he was preparing to board | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
have arrested two people on suspicion of | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Donald Trump says he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
In his first comments on the issue since taking office, | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Mr Trump said it would be "wonderful" if no nation had nuclear | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
arms, but otherwise the US must be "top of the pack". | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England, | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
They will help protect resident squirrel populations. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from north America. | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
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Hello, good morning again. It is a sad day again for Claudio Ranieri. | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
At the start of last season Claudio Ranieri was the bookie's | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
favourite to be the first manager sacked - it resulted it | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Leicester City winning the Premier League and endearing | :07:10. | :07:10. | |
themselves to sports fans and non-sport fans alike, | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
But sitting 17th in the Premier League and just a point | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
above the relegation zone the club have seen fit to sack him, | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
saying "it had to put its long-term long-term interests above all sense | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
The favourite to replace him is the former Manchester City | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Earlier I spoke to BBC Leicester's Ian Stringer | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
He will always have that hero status in the city of Leicester because he | :07:31. | :07:43. | |
lifted a trophy that the football club had not won in 132 years, 133 | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
years now. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
the team led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
motion in the city, there is upset and some elements of anger as well | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
because Claudio Ranieri is still a hero in many people's eyes because | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
of what he achieved last season. We can all remember Angela Bertelli -- | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
Bocelli singing lesson Dormer. There was a really | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
disappointing night for Spurs. They failed to reach the last 16 | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
of the Europa League after a draw against Gent of Belgium at Wembley, | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
meant they were beaten Dismal especially for two | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
of their England stars - His own goal making | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
it 1-1 on the night. Then another of Spurs' England | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
players, Dele Alli was sent-off It finished 2-2 on the night, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
leaving Manchester United as the only British side | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
in today's last 16 draw. Celtic have been fined ?60,000 by | :08:53. | :09:09. | |
Uefa after supporters set off fireworks in a match back in | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
December. Centre Ben Te'o will make his | :09:12. | :09:11. | |
first start for England in Sunday's Six Nations | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
match with Italy. Te'o has won 5 caps - | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
all as a replacement, including scoring the winning try | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
in this year's championship Danny Care makes his | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
first England start in a year at scrum-half | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
while Elliot Daly is preferred The Conservatives have pulled off | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian | :09:28. | :09:40. | |
seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
to Labour's Gillian winning with 13,748 votes | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
to Labour's But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600 | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
to become his party's second MP. The Conservative victory also marks | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
the first time a rival party has been defeated by the party | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
of government at a In her victory speech, | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
the winning Conservative candidate Mrs Harrison said it was clear | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
from talking to voters in Copeland that "Jeremy Corbyn | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
doesn't represent them". Let's listen to some | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
of her speech now. What has happened here tonight | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
from the opposition party We've had Labour here | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
for more than 80 years, but it's been very clear talking | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
to people throughout this campaign that Jeremy Corbyn | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
doesn't represent them. They want a party which is | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
on the side of ordinary, working people, which will respect | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
the way we voted in the referendum, and which will build a country that | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
represents everyone. That's why they voted | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
for me tonight. And winning Labour candidate | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
Mr Snell said that those who had tried to "sow hatred" | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
in Stoke-on-Trent during the election "have failed" | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
and voters had chosen to support the British values of | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
tolerance and respect. To those of you who came | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and division and to turn us away | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
from our friends and neighbours Tonight, the people | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
of Stoke-on-Trent have chosen the politics of hope over | :11:44. | :11:55. | |
the politics of fear. We have said with one voice | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
that hatred and bigotry are not welcome here, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
and that this is a proud city This election is a victory | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
for British values of tolerance and respect, but it is also | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
a victory for the proud Labour values that's the hallmark | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
of our city and its people. It is a message that the people | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
of Stoke-on-Trent won't just sit back whilst the Tory government | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
cuts our national health service to the bone and puts the future | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
of our public services at risk. It is a warning that we will not | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
stand idly by while politicians in Westminster pour ever more money | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
into London and the south-east while the rest of the country | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
is simply left to fend for itself. Ukip leader and candidate | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Paul Nuttall, spoke after the result | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
to say he was still confident about Ukip's future chances, | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
despite his defeat. Just to warn you, there is flash | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
photography throughout this clip. We have cut their majority in half, | :12:54. | :13:07. | |
and we have unified the party like never before, and we'll go forward | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
now. Ukip's time will come. This will happen. Hang on. This seat was | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
what, number 72 on our hit list. There is a lot more that will | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
happen, a lot more to come from us. We are not going anywhere. I'm not | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
going anywhere, so therefore we move on and our time will come. It is the | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
Brexit capital of Britain. There are other issues beyond Brexit. In terms | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
of where we are as a party on the ground, we put this at number 72. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
There will be a lot more seats which will be more favourable to us in the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
near future, and we will go on and we will have success in the future. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Gerard Richardson, a Conservative voter, in Whitehaven. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
Glyn Chapman, a Labour voter, in Stoke-on-Trent - | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
and we also have Ukip voter in Stoke-on-Trent: Simon Willdigg. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Thank you all very much for joining us. Gerard first of all, you must be | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
pleased with the outcome in Copland? Yes, delighted. It is the chance for | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
a fresh start for us, to be honest. Eight decades of Labour and quite | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
frankly the government are lazy around here -- they are lazy around | :14:32. | :14:43. | |
here, they take people for granted. Have you always voted Labour? I | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
think a lot of people continue voting the way their grandad did | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
because it is ingrained in them. I left the area, joined the forces, | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
came back and I have a wider perspective perhaps. I preferred to | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
vote on what the parties are offering. For the last 30 odd years | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
the mood has always been conservative. Glynn, your joining us | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
from Stoke-on-Trent where Labour won but lost in Copland so what is your | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
outcome on the view for Labour? It is a great result in Stoke. It is a | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
shame in Copland. The main thing was to keep Ukip out which could have | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
been a terrible thing for the city. What to think it boiled down to four | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
Ukip? The controversy about Paul Nuttall and his lies. Hillsborough, | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
that was something he had not personally claimed that it was on | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
his website, that he knew people personally who died at Hillsborough? | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
I don't think it helped his campaign but I don't think people here | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
generally welcomed those politics of division and fear. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
Simon, you switched from Labour to Ukip three years ago, why was that? | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
I thought the party was going in no direction at all. Stoke-on-Trent, we | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
have issues like the old Stoke City Football Club, we've lost | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
coal-mining and pits. The Saronic and this is on its way up, but I'm | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
quite surprised by the margin last night. -- the ceramic poppies | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
industry is on its way up. I thought people would have voted with the | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
feet and visually they haven't. Why do thing that was? You were | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
supporting Ukip, what went wrong for Ukip? In my opinion I thought a | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
local person should have stood for Stoke values, personally. Sorry, I | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
was struggling to hear you. Can you say that again? I will repeat that. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
In quite a lot of is people's opinion in Stoke-on-Trent, where we | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
field Ukip went wrong, we feel they should have had a local person | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
standing as an MP, not someone parachuting in. Party leader, you | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
can't get much more higher profile? You can't, but Paul Nuttall has | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
stood six times and failed six times in his own city. What do you think | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
this says Burda. The Tory party winning a seat in a by-election, the | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
governing party overturning the majority of the standing party in a | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
by-election is extremely rare. What do you think it says about the | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Conservative Party in the North? Did it come down to particular issues | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
because of nuclear, the instance? No, I've heard this. I think it does | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
come down far more to Jeremy Corbyn's style of leadership and his | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
policies. Certainly on the nuclear issue, there were concerns here but | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the Labour candidate herself was pro-nuclear. We've had Labour | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
candidates in the past there were antinuclear. I think it's possibly | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
the same across the country, people are jaded about promises. We've | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
heard promises of great things here in ten years or 20 years but nothing | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
gets delivered. After 80 years they should have a great big long list of | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
achievements to point to and they haven't. What we've had is decline | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
and there is more decline heading our way. We needed a fresh chance | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
but I think the Labour Party are in complete disarray and I think if | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
they continue with Jeremy Corbyn it's not good for the country. We | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
need a strong opposition. He really is, he would take them to a | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
electoral catastrophe in 2020. I think they will be lucky if they | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
have double-digit MPs the way they are going. Your reaction to that, | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Glenn? I think the Labour Party have a lot of work to do, they've been | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
losing votes since 1997. That's not Jeremy Corbyn's fault. He's been the | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
leader for two years, in which time his party and try to Alston. I think | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
he's great, I think he can do a really good job at the party and | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
everyone else needs to get behind him. Simon, Ukip's fortunes, are | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
they a viable party going forward? Of course it is. The problem in Ukip | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
now is, we've voted out of Brexit now and the party now has to think | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
of the neck strategy, of where they're going to move on. What do | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
you think they should do? Strong policies, like the NHS. I think | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
there should have more of a local link with people. Thank you all very | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
much for giving us your perspective. Still to come: As the final | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
preparations get underway for the Oscars this weekend, | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
we'll be getting the latest gossip He was - until recently - | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
the world's most expensive footballer and in a rare interview | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
for Newsbeat and this programme, Gareth Bale has spoken of his pride | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
at helping Wales to an almost miraculous semi-final | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
place at last year's He's been promoting "Don't take me | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
home," a new movie about last He's told us how he wants to help | :20:29. | :20:42. | |
make Wales great at everything - and the reason why he wants to beat | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
England all the time - because they 'always think they're | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
the best' The Real Madrid star spoke Now let's be honest, the euro rose | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
was a bit dull except for the Welsh, wasn't it? Well, you said it, not | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
me! I think the thing with us, we've grown up together through the youth | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
team, come to the senior team and got 40, 50, 60 caps now. I think | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
it's a long, hard process that we've gone through. We've gone through | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
some ups and downs and worked very hard together. The manager who's | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
coming has been incredible and got us playing the kind of football we | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
like to play and we've kept the Gresini jeer and getting better. | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
Even going on the world stage and performing like that as a team that. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
In terms of Wales, do you think there is any chance of knocking | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
rugby off its perch? We just want to make Wales great at everything, to | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
be honest. Rugby, football, we want everything to do well. Obviously | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
football in the last few years has been down, hopefully we can inspire | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
a lot of youngsters to come through, do well and put football back on top | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
again. In terms of going forward, up against it, World Cup 2018. What are | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
your hopes and anxieties, if you like, about that, particularly with | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
the Ireland game? I feel like we are in a good position, four points off | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
the top team and we have to play them, so we can be a point behind. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
We would prefer to be topped with a lot more points, but it's not always | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
the case in football. We're still confident we can qualify. We know if | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
we keep working hard as a team and get that little bit of luck that you | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
need, then we can go all the way. Something not everyone knows. You | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
were at school, correct me if you're wrong, even in the same class as Sam | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Warburton, ex-Wales rugby skipper, still playing for the side. Does | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
that make rugby fan? Are you interested in rugby and have you | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
been following the Six Nations? Yeah, I enjoy watching the team | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
and... I'm not a massive rugby fan, I'm the football fan. Who are you | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
worried about from the Irish side next month? When not worried about | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
anybody. Roy Keane? Maybe, he might chin me after the game. We're not | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
worried about any Irish players, it's the same as always for us, we | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
concentrate on ourselves and prepare our sells right. Talk about Wales, | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
what would be the ideal fit for your career? Reaching the semifinals as | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
you did in Euro 2016 that, that must have surpassed some of your | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
expectations as a player coming up. What would be the ideal dream, | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
realistic dream for you as a Wales player, or did you achieve it last | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
summer? My ultimate dream is to play in a | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
major competition for Wales, and obviously we achieved that, and | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
more, I suppose. I suppose you have to go back to the drawing board and | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
put all dreams are there. For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup on | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
another major tournament to have an experience like the one we did in | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
the euro rose. That would be very nice. You are known guy, a humble | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
guy, and very open for a footballer. With all that in mind, a nice bit of | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
advice for young player? For me, just work hard. I think you have to | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
commit to football. You have to leave the temptations behind of | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
going out with your friends and doing this and just concentrate on | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
your football, work hard in training. I think as long as you're | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
working hard and practising your football, you will always have a | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
chance. What is the favourite goal you have ever scored for Wales? I | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
think one against England is always great to score! I think for me | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
against Scotland at the Cardiff City stadium, to win the game, to put it | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
in the top corner was an amazing feeling. A great goal in my mind. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
One I will always look back memories. And is in decent goals | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
last summer, how do they rank? Right up there. But in terms of the style | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
of goal rather than the meaning of it, I like the Scotland one. You | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
like the Scotland one, OK. Final question, you did mention England. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
What is it, why do teams, Wales, Scotland, why do they all want to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
beat England so much, why is it so satisfying? Because they ways give | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
it the big one, always think they're the best and they never achieve | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
anything, sorry to say! I think that's probably the main reason why. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
It's always good to get one over. Some tips for England, how can they | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
recreate Wales' success? They can't! Gareth Bale. | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has been giving reaction to the by-election results | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
ahead of a speech he's about to make in central London. It's the day of | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
celebration in Stoke and disappointment in Copland. We | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
defeated Ukip in Stoke despite predictions they would prevail, the | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
politics of hope prevailed over the politics of hate. Copland was | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
disappointing, I do hope to have won the election that. I want to say | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
thank you for Gillian Troughton for the campaign she ran and | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
congratulations to Gareth Snell for his election in Stoke. How did you | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
feel when you heard Labour had lost in Copland? Very disappointed | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
because it is an area that needs investment and needs a Labour MP to | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
carried that Ford and above all it needs to ensure jobs are secure for | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the future and there is new investment on the Cumbrian coast, as | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
well as no closure of the West Cumbrian hospital. Labour's share of | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
the vote didn't just falling Copland, it fell in Stoke. It has | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
fallen in another three by-elections recently, an opposition party losing | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
a share of the vote in by-elections, almost unheard of. Are you going to | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
on your sought to set stem the tide question mark I was elected to lead | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
this party. We will continue her campaigning | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
work on the NHS, on social care, on housing and the catastrophic cuts | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
that have been made to council expenditure all over the country by | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
central government. How are you going to stem the tide rest muck is | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
an option to fall on your sword? We are our campaigning party, a party | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
determined to get that message out there and as the weeks go on there | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
will be more policy announcements on issues surrounding the funding of | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
local government and health, and issues surrounding industrial | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
development and planning and we have started a series of regional | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
economic conferences, as bottom-up policy making, so the desperate to | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
people all across the country for secure jobs is a good one. We will | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
continue with that work. To be clear, you are not considering | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
stepping down? No, I was elected to lead this party and am proud to lead | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
this party. Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the two by-election results. | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX, | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
We'll be getting the latest on that. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
Ahead of the Oscars 2017 taking place at the weekend, | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
we'll be getting the latest gossip from the red carpet. | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
With the News here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years. | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election, | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place. | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum. | :28:40. | :28:41. | |
The Electoral Commission has published the detail | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
of where ?27 million that was spent on the referendum went. | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
However, the commission is concerned that both campaigns haven't sent | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
in all their invoices and receipts, to show where the money | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
It's not yet clear whether any offences have been committed. | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion, | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
its ninth consecutive year in the red. | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss | :29:05. | :29:06. | |
the bank reported last year, and is one of the group's biggest | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
since its Government bailout in 2008. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
time, a day after capturing the city's airport from | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
Yesterday's operation took four hours. | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
inside the city after losing the ground to the army. | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX, | :29:33. | :29:41. | |
has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam - | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader. | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
VX is an extremely toxic chemical warfare agent and just a drop | :29:47. | :29:48. | |
CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
over Kim Jong-nam's face, while he was preparing to board | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
Our correspondent will be speaking to Joanna in the next half an hour. | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody | :30:11. | :30:12. | |
have arrested two people on suspicion of | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape. | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon. | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel. | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England, | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
They will help protect resident squirrel populations. | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from North America. | :30:46. | :30:54. | |
That's a summary of the latest news, | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
Good morning, Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
is the early favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester. | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
It's being reported the club have made an approach | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 an led City | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 and led City | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
Manchester United will be the only British team | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
Centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England | :31:33. | :31:52. | |
in Sunday's Six Nations match with Italy. | :31:53. | :31:54. | |
Te'o has won 5 caps - all as a replacement, | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
including scoring the winning try in this year's championship | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
Finally cricket and an amazing performance from Australia | :31:59. | :32:11. | |
And there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled | :32:15. | :32:16. | |
out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune. | :32:17. | :32:19. | |
Hollywood is gearing up for the biggest night of the year - | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
The red carpet's already been rolled out for the 89th | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
Academy Awards ceremony - the Oscars - on Sunday night. | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
All the talk's been about La La Land, the musical | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone - it's leads the way | :32:32. | :32:33. | |
Meanwhile there are three British nominees in the acting categories. | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
And what's the gossip on the red carpet? | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
Let's find out from the BBC's entertainment | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
Hello from the red carpet at the Oscars. Behind me, they are | :32:43. | :32:50. | |
Bulgarian. They are very happy with their one nomination. This is where | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
the most famous film stars on the planet will be on Sunday. 270 metres | :32:54. | :33:04. | |
long. The cost of it is over ?200,000. That is why they have a | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
tarpaulin over it. If you look over here, those are the bleachers. 735 | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
fans get to win a ballot when they get to come and sit and cheer on | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
their movie heroes at the Oscars. It takes the stars once they arrive on | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
the red carpet about two hours to walk the whole length of it because | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
there are crews are more than 80 countries around the world. This is | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
where they will all be standing. They'll get allocated their tiny | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
little section and they will be shouting for the categories they | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
care about. If you are Bulgarian, it is the short animation category. We | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
love the Oscars for the showbiz but it is also big business as well? | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
Absolutely. The films which win Oscars increased their box office. | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Three of the nine nominated films for best picture have already gone | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
by $100 million at the box office. How it works for the Oscars is, once | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
the public have seen the films the Oscars get bigger viewing figures. | :34:13. | :34:22. | |
You have got La La Land at ?130 million, and then there is Arrival, | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
the sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams who was snubbed at the Oscars, also | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
has gone by ?100 million. They can all expect a boost. When it gets to | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
this stage with so much hype around the movies, are there likely to be | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
many surprises on the night? There are actually some categories were | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
leaving the experts are really torn about who will win. The most | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
interesting one I would say, best actor. For months everyone thought | :34:54. | :35:02. | |
Casey Affleck who plays a janitor in Boston who has to go back to his | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
hometown when his brother dies to bring up his nephew, everyone | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
thought he was a shoo-in but then the screen actors Guild award and | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
then Denzel Washington stormed in for Fences. So Denzel Washington | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
could become only the fourth actor ever to win three Oscars. My money | :35:23. | :35:32. | |
is on him. Most people I still think fancy Casey Affleck. Tell us more | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
about the machinations behind what happens because there are two people | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
right now who do know exactly who has won what. There are two people | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
on the planet and they are accountants for | :35:49. | :35:50. | |
PricewaterhouseCoopers and they are the people who get the ballots for | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
more than 7000 Academy members, count them up and the winners are | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
put into envelopes. They are the envelopes you see people read out on | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
stage. They are put in a briefcase and that briefcase is only opened | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
when it is taken to the Oscars on Sunday by these two people. That is | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
quite a job and quite a responsibility. It has never gone | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
wrong yet, maybe this is the year! What happens after the Oscars? | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
Everything builds up to this moment and then the movies go quiet again | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
for a bit? What is interesting is what we are standing on now is | :36:28. | :36:37. | |
Hollywood boulevard. The Oscars are on Sunday night, by Monday | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
lunchtime, this will all be gone and this will be a road again. The | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
Oscars almost disappear almost instantly. It is a time of year | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
after the Oscars when the film companies put out there misfires, | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
the films they thought might content the Oscars but then they thought, | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
they are not that good. We have had this great few months where you get | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
to go to the cinema and see the best films of the year. In the next few | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
months you have the worst to look forward to, unless you have not seen | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
these Oscar films. I can recommend seven out of nine of the best | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
pictures. They are ready tremendous. We can watch them on DVD. A quick | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
word on the Brits at the Oscars, not as many nominations as previous | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
years? Not a great year for Britons. We have three, Dev Patel for Lion. | :37:29. | :37:43. | |
We have Andrew Garfield and also Naomie Harris. In the week she has | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
got an MBE she has been nominated for the Oscars. We will get the | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
British nominees to pop into a restaurant in their taxes on their | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
way to the Oscars, including two brothers nominated against each | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
other in the same category, Neil and Paul Hall balled up against each | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
other in Best visual effects. And then we will tell you instantly on | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
BBC radio 5 Live. If you want your Oscars coverage, apart from on the | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
news channel, come to 5 Live. Colin, thank you very much. Enjoyed it all. | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
As Colin has been showing us, preparations are well underway | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
While it's business as usual in the proceedings, like every | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
Hollywood show there are always the quirks and blunders that make | :38:34. | :38:35. | |
For more on what we can expect from this year's show, | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
I've also been speaking to celebrity showbiz gossip columnist | :38:40. | :38:41. | |
Perez Hilton and CNN's Hollywood journalist Sandro Monetti. | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
So, Perez, bring us right up to date with the latest gossip from | :38:50. | :38:58. | |
Hollywood. This Oscars is unlike any other because of the current | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
political climate in the United States. In fact, my talent agency, | :39:02. | :39:10. | |
UTA, instead of having an Oscars party this weekend they are holding | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
a rally. I will go later today and some big-name stars will be | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
attending. Some even bigger name stars will be speaking, including | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
Jodie Foster, Michael J Fox as well as the Lieutenant Governor for the | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
state of California. I think that sends a message loud and clear to | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
the person in the White House who, in the past, almost annually used to | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
live tweet the Oscars. I have a feeling he won't be doing that this | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
year. He may be live tweeting but maybe not in the circumspect way | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
that has been done before, perhaps, because we already saw that spat, | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
Meryl Streep making her comments and Donald Trump hitting right back at | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
her. Do you expect there to be a lot of trump speeches? One wag said | :40:03. | :40:12. | |
there will be so many that they will have to come up with an award for | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
the best speech. I think there will be some but not that much. Just | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
because there have already been a few award shows since Donald Trump | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
was inaugurated, starting with the Golden Globes and even more | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
politically charged where the screen actors awards which were broadcast | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
here in the US. I suspect some but maybe not as many as some right wing | :40:32. | :40:39. | |
people might expect will happen. Sandro, do the Hollywood stars | :40:40. | :40:45. | |
risked alienating people and looking out of touch because Donald Trump is | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
a president who has won on a popular vote and there has been a bit of a | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
backlash against Hollywood stars? It used to be in every acceptance | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
speech you had to thank your agent. This time you have to insult Donald | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
Trump. It is kind of expected otherwise you are not part of the | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
patch in Hollywood. They are worried about alienating the rest of the | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
community. If they don't do it at this point, it is almost expected. | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
It is kind of counter-productive, it plays into Donald Trump's hands and | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
the image that he has been saying, they are all in their mansions and | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
they are not in touch with the real people. Regardless of what you feel | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
about their valid points, if you want to watch politics watch CNN, if | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
you want to watch showbiz, watch the Oscars. I think there is far too | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
much politics creeping into awards season but I expect it to be one | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
Trump bashing after another. Let's talk about the movies. It is no | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
accident about which movies get the nominations. Tell us about the | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
campaigning? It is much like a presidential campaign because the | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
people who win the Oscars don't just give the best performances, they | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
also meet most of the voters and they are all out there on the | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
campaign Trail shaking hands. It has been like that for months. Usually, | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
the person who wins have met most of the electorate are wrong the way. -- | :42:14. | :42:21. | |
along the way. I have met most of the stars so I have been able to | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
take the pulse of the electorate, if you will. La La Land was a heavy | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
favourite, because it is the hometown movie. The Oscars are held | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
in Los Angeles, La La Land is set in Los Angeles around the entertainment | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
business. It is like the BAFTAs voting for the Queen. Another | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
backlash against La La Land, particularly away from Hollywood | :42:49. | :42:50. | |
where the message that you sacrificed love for career and self | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
has not gone down quite so well. How is it seen in Hollywood and do you | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
expect it to sweep the board? I definitely agree it is the front | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
runner and I am personally invested in it because some of my dear | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
friends wrote the music for the songs which were nominated for Best | :43:13. | :43:21. | |
Oscar. John Legend will perform. I am rooting for them. This year I'm | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
going to say I will be concerned with the ratings. I think some | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
people will not watch because they expect trump bashing but I think a | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
lot of the films did moderately successfully at the box office. They | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
were not huge blockbusters. I am more excited to see the performers. | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
There are big name performers from the UK. Sting will be performing. | :43:47. | :43:56. | |
John Legend will be performing stop the biggest performer will be Justin | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
Timberlake. I hear they are planning a very special tribute to Debbie | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
Reynolds and Carrie Fisher because there will be that to look forward | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
to and get emotional over. Ollie loved them and they were beloved | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
here. -- Hollywood loved them. A very different Oscars this year. | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
There was that whole row about the Oscars so white. Does it feel | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
different this year? Applause to the Academy for changing their | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
membership rules. Let me run the numbers by you. The Academy is 93% | :44:32. | :44:40. | |
White, 76% male. The average age of voter, 63. The Academy has initiated | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
a policy whereby over the next four years they will double the number of | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
people of colour and the number of women who are allowed to vote on the | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
Oscars. Well, finally, and they have started that movement this year, and | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
that has been reflected, it would appear, in the increasing number of | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
nominations for people of colour. So it is about time. And what do you | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
think has gone on there, Perez, because obviously these films were | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
in production way before the whole row happened, but they have come to | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
prominence this year, and do you think because of what happened last | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
year, there has been an element of films being looked at maybe with | :45:26. | :45:26. | |
fresh eyes? Absolutely, I remember last year | :45:27. | :45:34. | |
there was a lot of controversy with the film Straight Out Of Compton, | :45:35. | :45:44. | |
which many felt needed to be nominated but it wasn't. I think if | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
it was released this last year I think it would have struck a nerve | :45:48. | :45:54. | |
with voters, given the change are the pool of Academy members. I'm | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
very happy with the changes. I think the films nominated and actors and | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
actresses nominated well worthy of their nominations and reflect real | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
life better, that is what art should do, reflect a life. I want to get | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
your predictions in the main categories. Perez, would you think? | :46:13. | :46:25. | |
I think Lala land the best picture, Emma Stone Best actress and Denzel | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
Washington. Lala land and Emma Stone. I give Casey Affleck the | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
slight edge for Manchester by the sea. I hated every second of the | :46:36. | :46:43. | |
film but it never did Marlon Brando any harm mumbling all way through. | :46:44. | :46:51. | |
We have already spoken about La La Land, puts it right up there in the | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
most nominated Oscar-nominated of all time. Do you think it is one of | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
the best film to come out of Hollywood? Yes, it's tied with | :47:02. | :47:14. | |
Titanic and All About Eve. It's as good as singing in the rain! Perez, | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
I know you have some personal interest, so I assume you echo that | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
an Lala land? Absolutely. If you were recommending a movie for people | :47:28. | :47:35. | |
to watch away from La La Land, what would it be? I have to be honest, | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
I've mainly just been watching kids movies these days, with my son, who | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
is four. I saw the Batman Lego movie which was cute. No ask and -- Oscar | :47:47. | :47:54. | |
nominations though. As we go into these days before the Oscars, what | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
is the atmosphere like that in Hollywood? There's just a lot of | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
preparation involved. In fact, my trainer at the gym has taken time | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
off from training me because she's working at the Oscars. That's also | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
something that happens. All of a sudden, people who do other jobs | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
start doing the Oscars, they shut down Hollywood Boulevard. There is | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
tonnes of prep and security involved. Hopefully it won't rain. I | :48:23. | :48:28. | |
do think it is expected to rain this weekend, we'll see, fingers crossed. | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
Give us some good stats. The value of the goody bags, the amount of | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
money that spent on getting the star is ready, give us some great stats | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
on that. Value of the goody bag, ?200,000. Even if you don't win an | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
Oscar you get to take home the goodie bag, which is worth its | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
weight in gold and includes five luxury holidays, including a trip to | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
Lake Como in Italy. So if George Clooney doesn't have room in his | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
mansion, you can stay in the Hotel next door. As for getting ready for | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
the Oscars... Botox doesn't come cheap. Let me tell you, you won't be | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
seeing many wrinkles on the red carpet. It's boom time of the year | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
for the injectables business, I'm off to get mine and I know Perez has | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
his. Despite all the effort that goes into looking good, there are | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
always some howlers on the red carpet, aren't there? Absolutely. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
That's my motto, better to be remembered for one of the worst | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
outfits that the Oscars than not be remembered at all! Do you think it | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
is done deliberately sometimes? I'm often on the worst dressed lists. | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
I'm also very much looking forward to seeing what Jimmy Kimmel does as | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
the host. Costume is a huge part of any film, | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
TV or theatre production. And out of the five films | :49:51. | :49:53. | |
that has been nominated for Best Costume at the Oscars, | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
Angels Costumes, has bagged three. It's the largest privately owned | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
collection of costume for film, theatre and television anywhere | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
in the world. Our entertainment reporter | :50:04. | :50:04. | |
Chi Chi Izundu got to look around Angels Costumiers already | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
has 36 Oscars for some But it's hoping that one of these | :50:08. | :50:19. | |
three films will take home a little We work on so many films every year, | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
it's just an honour to be involved in any of the films | :50:29. | :50:51. | |
that get nominated. You've got no idea which way | :50:52. | :50:53. | |
the Academy's going to go, what they're looking for each year, | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
so it might be futuristic, might be But we're always surprised and | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
always very thankful to be involved. This is just one site, the other | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
warehouse is in central London. Random fact time - | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
there are eight and half miles, worth of hanging space here, | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
that's on four floors. They can knock up an outfit | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
from scratch in about three days. We may have seen | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious costumes for an upcoming remake that | :51:21. | :51:21. | |
we're not actually From visual effects to high end | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
production to - of course - costume design, the UK has | :51:25. | :51:31. | |
a world-renowned reputation when it Last year film and TV | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
attracted ?1.3 billion worth of international investment, | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
so maintaining those relationships, particularly across Europe, | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
is ever more important come Since 2007, the EU has contributed | :51:46. | :51:47. | |
more than 100 million euros When we leave, what will | :51:48. | :51:55. | |
happen to that source? The free movement of people, | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
goods and services could become difficult if new visa | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
requirements are introduced. But on the plus side, the weaker | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
pound is bringing in business, There are certain big productions | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
that are happening at the moment, all the studios are all booked up, | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
so you might get a different view from the studios, | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
but we've also still got the TV Unravelling the ties the EU has | :52:22. | :52:23. | |
with the British film industry will be difficult, | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
and the question is, once we leave, will the rest of the world | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
still want to invest? If the tax incentives change | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
or anything with the European film industry changes and there's less | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
work, then we have to address it. But at the moment, our staffing | :52:39. | :52:40. | |
isn't affected by Brexit. We've still got the films that | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
are working, that have been scheduled to work, | :52:44. | :52:45. | |
so we don't know. Whilst we're all waiting | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
for the conclusion of Brexit, The lack of men wanting | :52:50. | :52:51. | |
to pick up the needle. Why do you think men aren't | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
taking up costume design? It's something we've just noticed, | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
a lot of people are applying for the jobs, for some reason maybe | :52:59. | :53:06. | |
don't feel it's a male It's something we're looking | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
at and it's something we'd love... You can't really fix it straight | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
away, we have an apprenticeship programme and that's quite split, | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
but the people for the other jobs, the majority of people coming | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
on the costume side are female. TV, film and theatre have been | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
the bedrock for Angels when it comes to costume making, | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
but the fashion industry is increasingly becoming aware | :53:29. | :53:31. | |
of its historical treasure trove and using it for inspiration, | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
including most of the looks The devil is in the detail, | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
like this dress worn by Gwyneth Paltrow for | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
Shakespeare in Love. And why some of the actors | :53:45. | :53:47. | |
and actresses don't replicate this I love the fact she got to wear that | :53:48. | :53:49. | |
dress. Monday's programme will be | :53:50. | :54:02. | |
an Oscars special - with all the reaction | :54:03. | :54:04. | |
from the night's events. Back to the news a half brother of | :54:05. | :54:12. | |
North Korea's leader was killed by a highly toxic chemical agent known as | :54:13. | :54:14. | |
VX. Kim Jong-nam died while preparing | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
to board a flight at CCTV footage showed two | :54:18. | :54:19. | |
women briefly holding Let's get more on this now | :54:20. | :54:22. | |
with our correspondent Tell us more about what they have | :54:23. | :54:32. | |
found out about this agent that they think may have killed him? | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
It very, very dangerous indeed. It's normally in a kind of oil but you | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
only need a spot of it to kill somebody. In the video of the CCTV | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
Eusebius Aston, one of the assassins put a cloth over the head of the | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
victim. -- see the assassins. He appeared to have realised what had | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
happened and was then looking for help urgently. There are some | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
suggestions that one of the assassins has herself been infected. | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
What the authorities are also doing, they are going to scour the airport, | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
sweep the airport looking for traces of that chemical, or talking about | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
radioactive traces, which indicates they fear that the team of assassins | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
may have had various different sorts of weapons. We don't know that. | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
Maybe in radioactive isotope. We don't know that, it's speculation. | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
But what we do know is the Malaysian 's think a very serious chemical | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
weapon, small amount of a chemical weapon has been used, and that would | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
raise all kinds of questions about the chemical weapons industry in | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
North Korea. Does the fact they think that was | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
used then point the finger very squarely on North Korea? Where could | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
that particular agent be got from? You are certainly talking about a | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
serious laboratory and probably a laboratory run by a state or | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
corporation of that kind of scale. I don't think anybody outside doubts | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
that the main finger of suspicion and suspicion may be too weak a | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
word, is pointing at North Korea. North Korea is sending out odd | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
signals. It's saying it's a fabrication, it's all about | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
politics, these allegations from the lazier, but we want the body. They | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
are not naming the victim in North Korea and certainly not saying he is | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
the half brother of Kim Jong-un but clearly taking a very close interest | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
in him. In terms of the efforts to try and | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
get the body and try to control the way this is being handled, what is | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
happening with North Korea? Well, you can't control the | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
situation where one of your adversaries has been killed, | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
possibly by your own agents in a foreign country. You haven't got | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
much control on that one! There is a war of words going on between the | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
Malaysian authorities and North Korean authorities, with both sides | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
accusing the other of lies. What we're not really seeing so far is | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
the involvement of the United States, for example. The United | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
States, certainly under the old administration, and I've got no | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
doubts under the new administration, is concerned about the nuclear issue | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
in North Korea. If this is borne out, if the Malaysians have got it | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
right and a lot of people think they have, then we are talking about not | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
just nuclear weapons but serious chemical weapons as well. That ramps | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
up the politics of the things. Thank you very much, Steve. | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
A couple of quick comments to bring you about Claudio Ranieri's sacking. | :57:56. | :58:02. | |
A sad sign of The Times, players need to be more responsible for the | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
failure, not just the manager. Another says although it is sad they | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
have sacked Claudio Ranieri, there is no morality any more in football, | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
players think about only one thing, money. | :58:16. | :58:17. | |
Thank you for all of your comments today and your company. | :58:18. | :58:19. | |
See you soon, have a lovely weekend, bye-bye. | :58:20. | :58:32. | |
I've searched the world to find these extraordinary people. | :58:33. | :58:38. |