02/06/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Global dismay as Donald Trump pulls America out of the Paris Climate

the Paris Climate change agreement - we will explain what it means

and why it's being described as a sad day for the world.

We want fair treatment for our taxpayers.

We don't want other leaders and other countries to be

laughing at us any more, and they won't be.

The move will be at the top of the agenda of a meeting

between China and EU officials in Brussels - we speak

to our correspondents in Brussels and Beijing.

The parents of Charlie Gard, the sick baby who doctors say should

have his life support switched off tell this programme why they are

fighting so hard to give him a chance. We won't give up. Wealthy is

still fighting, we will still fight and we have said that from the very

beginning, and he has fought so hard to still be here and we're still

fighting so while he is still fighting, we still fighting. Also,

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There has been widespread international condemnation

of President Trump's announcement that the United States

is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

UN chief Antonio Guterres's spokesman called it

"a major disappointment" while the European Union said

Here, Theresa May has expressed her disappointment over the decision.

Our North America correspondent David Willis reports.

He'd promised this to the people who voted him into office.

Nonetheless, it was a momentous announcement and one that drew swift

As president, I have one obligation and that obligation

President Trump believes, in a nutshell, that the Paris Accord

impedes his ability to restore jobs to parts of the American heartland

blighted by the move away from fossil fuels such

Time, in his view, to put America first, a philosophy summed up

I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

Pittsburgh's mayor Bill Peduto swiftly responded, saying his city -

considered the heart of the American steel industry -

Donald Trump had previously said global warming was a hoax

He is now saying he'd be willing to re-negotiate the Paris Accord,

albeit on terms more favourable to the US, but European leaders want

France will never give up the fight. I reaffirm clearly that the Paris

agreement remains irreversible and will be implemented, not just by

France but by all the other nations. Those gathered outside

the White House to protest the President's decision believe

the departure of the second-largest polluter on the planet will have a

dramatic impact But Donald Trump believes his

decision represents an assertion of American sovereignty,

whilst his critics believe it's The EU and China are due to reaffirm

their commitment to tackling climate change at a summit in Brussels

today. Several EU countries have already dismissed suggestions that

the US might be able to renegotiate the Paris deal. Damian Grammaticas

is in Brussels for us. Damian, what is the line coming out of Brussels?

Just how angry are the leaders there? Very, very disappointed. If

you look across the EU, we had the Belgian Prime Minister last night

calling this a brutal act from France, I think the words used were

open "Criminal". The joint statement from the French, the Italians are

the Germans are saying that the climate change chords can be

renegotiated, Donald Trump cannot simply walk away and come back and

say he wants a better deal in some way. That won't happen, they said.

Either the US meet its commitments or it doesn't. I think very, very

disappointed but also determined to take up the mantle of the leadership

of this issue. They made a very clear that if the US won't, the EU

and, interestingly, China, the other two global heavyweights, will be

stepping in and that's what we are going to see today here. By

coincidence, the Chinese premier is in Brussels today for a summit, an

annual thing. They will be issuing a special declaration and that will

say that the EU and China consider climate action and the clean energy

transition more imperative than ever and that they will recommit to the

targets and the commitments. We will pick up a map because I want to

speak to Steve McDonald in Beijing. From a Chinese perspective, are they

seeing this as a real opportunity? They haven't exactly directly

criticised Donald Trump for pulling the US out of the Paris climate

process but simply said, "If you don't want to be part of it we will

stand with Europe and others and push forward the climate agenda".

This was within hours of Donald Trump pulling the US out of the

process. Interestingly, China's number two leader is in Europe and

very soon we are going to see a joint statement come out from him

and members of the EU, reaffirming a commitment to this process. Quite

apart from any impact on the process around climate change amelioration,

we are seeing quite a profound geopolitical shift here, with China

standing upon the world stage and becoming, I guess, whether it it or

not, the leader, or one of the chief leaders, on climate change. And

although it has not said it wanted to grab hold of this mantle, it has

nevertheless got it now firmly within its grasp. Thank you both for

speaking with us. Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary The Metropolitan Police say

they have so far found no records of any calls to the Anti-Terrorist

hotline in relation to the Manchester bomber,

despite a number of people saying they had reported concerns over

Salman Abedi's behaviour. It comes as Greater Manchester

Police have released new CCTV footage, showing Abedi in the city

in the four days leading Detectives say they're now

concentrating their investigation on the Rusholme area

and are appealing for witnesses At least 36 people have died

at a casino in the Philippines, where a gunman opened fire

before killing himself. Police in Manila say most

of the victims died of suffocation after the man set fire

to casino tables. Officers had feared the attack

was terrorist related, but now The Royal College of Surgeons says

the number of patients waiting more than six months for routine

operations and treatment has nearly The college says around 126,000

people had waited more than 26 weeks for non-urgent treatment in March,

up 180% on the same The target for waiting times

for routine surgery and treatment The head of NHS England,

Simon Stephens recently said that performance would be allowed to slip

because of other urgent The Royal College of Surgeons argue

this will mean increasing numbers The college, using NHS England data,

says around 126,000 people had waited more than 26 weeks

for non-urgent treatment in March, up 180% on March 2013,

a time when targets were being hit. The biggest increases

were for dermatology, ear, nose and throat

and urology patients. We know we need to have more

facilities for planned surgery. We need to have better planning

for planned surgery and we need to make sure that the pressures

on the health service don't interfere with patients

who could legitimately expect their surgery to be done

within 18 weeks of presentation. Labour said it would increase NHS

funding and restore the 18 week treatment target,

which it says has been abandoned, The Conservatives said there had

been a sharp drop in the number of patients waiting more than a year

for treatment, and only their plans to grow the economy

would support the NHS. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

have seen increases in totals waiting long periods

for operations, though they have A ten-month-old boy has crawled

to victory to be crowned The competition - held every year

in the capital Vilnius - sees babies scramble across a five

metre long red carpet, It was touch and go for a while,

but Mykolas Pociunas emerged victorious, with his mother

waving a box of Lego. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30. Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning - A good stuff England's cricketers in

the champions Trophy yesterday. Was a bit of a banana skin to England in

their first match in the Champions Trophy at the Oval. England were set

a very respectable target of 306 to win but, as so often, Joe Root was

the match whenever England. A career-best 133 not out, seeing him

share success of stanzas Alex Hales, and Owen Morgan was 75 not out,

England reaching their target with 16 balls to spare. Victory on

Tuesday against New Zealand should really secure them a place in the

semifinals. It has been confirmed that all-rounder Chris Woakes is out

of the tournament. A good day for British tennis.

Yes, British interest moving along very nicely

at Roland Garros this year, Andy Murray's the World Number One,

we'd expect expect to see him in round three.

But there was also victory for Kyle Edmund who is building up

Murray had a tough battle once again on clay.

He dropped the opening set against the world number

50 Martin Klizan - digging deep to win it in four sets.

He faces the former US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro next.

He was left consoling his opponent Nicolas Almagro yesterday

after he retired through injury with the match level

Edmund beat the conquerer of Jo-Wilfred Tsonga -

Argentina's Renzo Olivo, in straight sets, to reach the third round in

Paris for the first time in his career.

He'll be up against South African Kevin Anderson next

after he knocked out Australia's Nick Kyrgios.

And Edmund will be very hopeful of victory against a player ranked 7

Juan Martin Del Potro was struggling slightly with injury

at the end of his match - if he is anywhere near full fitness

you'd expect him to pose a serious threat to Murray's hopes tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the Champions League final in Cardiff -

it's sure to be a huge occasion as Juventus,

But what about the hometown boy Gareth Bale?

Well, he might not get the dream end to the season he's been wishing for.

He hasn't appeared in the side for 6 weeks due to a calf injury.

He's back in training but says he's not fully fit and having knock-on

Madrid have played very well in his absence but Bale is hopeful

manager Zinedine Zidane will give him a chance.

It has also been difficult for me this season with injuries from my

operation to drop it has been difficult to come back from it. I

have been working hard on my fitness the last few weeks. Obviously, I'm

not 100 doesn't fit, not match fit, so whether the manager thinks that

might be a problem, maybe so, and if I have to be on the bench and come

off the bench to make an impact, then that's what I have to do.

And you never know, it could be his last game in Madrid

with some question marks ver his future.

Just before we go, Lyon secured second straight treble last night,

beating Paris St Germain on penalties in the Women's

Congratulations to them - we're back with more sport later.

It's Election Blind Date time now - the fourth in our series,

where we bring you a blind date over lunch between two people

But surely two opposing politicians on a blind date

Labour's Jess Phillips met Conservative John Whittingdale

to talk politics, family, the spotlight and rubbish

There's an election on and people are talking politics.

So what happens when you send to people with

So what happens when you send two people with

You see people that can go and work and

When people stand at the dispatch box and tell me there's

money for education, I look around and I wonder where it's gone.

Because it's not my children's school.

As a person, I suppose I'm a difficult bloody woman.

A difficult woman with a dirty laugh.

I am Jess Phillips and I was Labour member of

Parliament, now I'm the candidate in that election.

There are still some who I think are three-headed monsters.

I feel slightly anxious about going out with somebody,

I wouldn't want it to be anyone boring.

I'm John Whittingdale the Parliamentary

My confession to you is that I'm taking

a night off in the election campaign to go and see Iron Maiden at the O2.

I could get one of my friends to do that thing where they text

I know quite a few female MPs, get on

I've never been on a blind date in my life.

Because I've been married since I was 23.

I had a sort of private little bet with myself who it might be.

I live about 200 yards away during the week.

A nice bit of town to have a flat in.

All right, but you still have to go door knocking.

People are saying they miss Nigel Farage.

That is what lots of people in Parliament said to me.

I'm not going to eat a bacon sandwich because that's

not gone well for people in the past.

You have stolen Ed Miliband's policy on energy so you

Did you see the Theresa May eat a bag of chips the

Even though everybody is happy when they eat chips.

Do you miss not being in the throes of the

I was a bit disappointed I couldn't do it for

longer but the leader changed, the world changed.

Do you hope that you have the chance?

If I was asked to do it again I do it.

I would love to be the Home Secretary.

It's not that I want to be the Shadow Home

Secretary, I want the

actual job and I think that I would be good at it and don't

The likelihood of that happening any time soon,

I won't walk the floor, no matter how much your side had.

What do you make of Diane Abbott so far?

Once again, it has been widely reported.

But I think they slip up, there before

But I think they slip up, there for the

we can all have those bad moments on the radio.

How much it will cost is a fairly obvious question.

If you get it as wrong as she did, it was painful,

It is true, but how much things are going to cost is not

a question any Tory would answer about their manifesto.

So at least she might have got it wrong, but to she had an answer.

How many times have you ever walked back into

your office and gone, I wish that had never

You do it, you wake up in a cold sweat, going over

People don't talk to me about Brexit a lot although they are

would say, but comes across on the doorstep,

I think people are slightly cynical about the election.

I think they think we should be doing our

Are you finding, one of the strategies of my party

know people in areas like yours who find it

Conservative because they come from a background where

People don't say her name to me where I am.

But they don't dislike her in the way that they disliked

Obviously it's been well documented...

Do you think he will be a good Prime Minister?

I don't think Theresa May would be a good prime minister.

I'm not going to hide, I have disagreed with him on things.

Our point of existence is get into power, make things

And I felt that Jeremy Corbyn had other priorities.

And so I have been very critical of him but...

I do think that he cares more about the people where I live

And certainly much more than David Cameron did.

It's hilarious the Tory manifesto is being called left-wing.

It's something that says we will bring back fox hunting.

Not the most left-wing, I don't remember that from

samosas and socialism as a child, but maybe I'm wrong.

Where was the Labour manifesto, as ever, whatever

the problem is let's throw a huge amount of money

I don't know whether it's 40 or 80 or ?100 billion of uncosted

I get a little bit sick of listening to people say, Tories

largely, saying, you just spend this money, you can't

To schools, "you can't do this, you can't do

that, you want the moon on

You can say how you're going to pay for this.

How are you going to pay for the deficit in the

This idea that we create a big black hole

by promising to be decent, to care about every child.

It is, I think, it is awful, the way that it's...

to let children like my kids get left behind.

Oh, you think that I don't live in the real world?

The real world is that if you want to put more into

education and you want to put more into the health service, you can

have an economy which is going to produce the money to do so.

And if you wreck the economy, there will be

But actually, we have put money into education.

money on education, I

look around and I wonder where it's gone, because it is not in my

Again, we get that every problem, we could be spending

The problem is that in every area, you want to spend

Yeah, I want to spend more money on the kids in my

I want to spend more money but I also want to get

Do you think that people are going to be

After Brexit, I think that they're going to be feeling

My kid still can't get a place in the local school

because the school places are being cut down.

My kid still has to wait a week to see the GP.

Hang on a minute, I was told there was going

And I think that that is not going to be the

If people thought that Brexit was a panacea

for all challenges facing the country, it wasn't,

that influx year after year putting more pressure on, we're

going to say, yes, we welcome people who are really going to pay a

contribution but we just can't go on accepting this

Would you consider yourself to be a feminist?

The reason I entered politics, the person who was the greatest

influence on me, the person I regard as the greatest privilege to have

that she achieved the highest office in the land on merit.

What I say is what the Labour Party did in the

past which was try and impose women by having all women short lists.

I think that's not judging people on merit.

our elected on an all women short lists. -- I was elected.

Would you have thought that if you had gone up against everyone

and have half the population excluded?

I went up against other women who I had to beat, and

shockingly, the idea if I hadn't won on merit

if they have been men, in the competition, if

that didn't even prove that I would better if I could beat a

Personally, I find the idea insulting.

Do you think every single man in Parliament got there on merit.

They can't have got there on merit because they

That actually that is one of the strengths of

People kept warning me you'll get divorced

as soon as you become a

Two years on, maybe Theresa May will save my

I think the thing I have found really difficult is a level of

exposure that you put yourself forward for.

And how much hatred can come with that.

That is something I haven't experienced.

I had my private life splashed across the papers, some of it true,

some of it not true. It is tough. If you have children. It is hard on

them. Particularly because most people

know who their dad is. It tells you about the

ridiculous life we live. I went to Ibiza and

all I did, was but put a tweet up, it got picked up,

sacked culture secretary People have this idea that MPs

are They enjoy doing things

everyone else enjoy. I get people looking at me

saying, you like Rock Someone said I can't

believe you're here! I don't have people

put things in my bins. Yes, I go to Wilkinsons,

it's next to my house. At the tip, all the

blokes came out and I don't need special

treatment at the I like the catharsis

of putting stuff in a bin. The other aspect is the fact the MPs

are seen to be vulnerable. In the wake of Jo's death,

which was catastrophic and still I think that politics

moves so fast it has Still, as someone who was

a personal friend of hers, feels there wasn't

a pause to get over it. I don't know what I'm expecting

but I'm expecting one day I think the best, the single best

tenet of our democracy is the link between the constituent

and the member of Parliament. This is the are you ever going to

see each other again question. We agreed on something

but not how we should There was a line of sand but it

would be boring if we were all the same. I was worried because I wrote

a book and I mention the poor girl thing and I thought, is this the

thing we're going to have to talk about?

world has moved on and politicians are allowed to be human.

Now I shall definitely be going out to do so.

We could go to a heavy metal concert together.

My husband is a massive Iron Maiden fan.

Frankie has got in touch on Twitter to say John Whittingdale conducted

himself very well and Jess Phillips seemed overaggressive. And other

Twitter users said that if more politicians were like Jess, they'll

be eminently more likeable. A good MP. You can get in touch with us

throughout the morning. That was the fourth in our

Election Blind Dates series - and you can catch up on the whole

series on our programme page. And you'll be glad to hear

Election Blind Dates continues Next week, Gina Miller - the woman

who brought the Brexit case meets Godfrey Bloom,

a former Ukip politician known It didn't take long

for Brexit to come up - Do people know what they voted for?

Oh, people are thick? Is this what we are rolling out, people are

stupid and don't understand what they are voting for? I have been

hearing a lot of this, we all a bit stupid.

Still succumb, we will be looking at what President Trump's decision to

pull out of the climate change agreement means for the agreement

and the rest of the planet. We will bring you the highlights

from the election campaign trial of the last seven days.

Here is Annita McVeigh in the BBC newsroom of the summary of the news.

Good morning. The president of the European Commission and the Chinese

premier has said there will be no backsliding on international

commitments to the Paris climate accord, despite President Trump's

decision to withdraw from the treaty. Mr Trump said the deal

disadvantage to the US and threatened American jobs. Here,

Theresa May expressed her disappointment and said Britain

remains committed to the agreement. Other world leaders reacted with

dismay. The Metropolitan Police say they

have so far found no record of any calls to the anti-terrorist hotline

in relation to the matters bomber despite a number of people saying

they had reported concerns over Salman Abedi's behaviour. It comes

as Greater Manchester Police have released CCTV footage showing Salman

Abedi in the city in the four days leading up to the attack. Detectives

say they are concentrating their investigation into the Rusholme area

and are appealing for this is who may have seen him there. At least 36

people have died at a casino in the Philippines, where gunmen

opened fire before killing himself.

Police in Manila say most of the victims died of suffocation

after the man set fire to casino tables.

Officers had feared the attack was terrorist related,

but now believe the motive was robbery.

Police have released a video showing former world number one golfer

Tiger Woods taking a breathalyser test after being found asleep

The athlete was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.

The video shows Woods slurring as he provides his personal

information to a police officer before taking a blood test.

The athlete says that an unexpected reaction to legal

The number of patients waiting more than six months for routine

operations and treatment has nearly tripled over four years in England.

The Royal College of Surgeons analysed data from March 2013 -

NHS England declined to respond directly to the six-month figures.

But a spokesperson has said "the NHS has cut the number of patients

waiting more than a year for treatment by nearly 13,000

The Bulgarian linesman who failed to spot Diego Maradona's infamous

"hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup, has died.

The Argentinan leapt to punch the ball past

Peter Shilton into the net, during the side's win over England.

Bogdan Dochev, who died at the age of 80, said

the incident stayed with him his whole life.

He described Maradona as "a great footballer, but a small man".

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

good morning. After victory over Bangladesh in their opening match of

the Champions Trophy, England's cricketers have been hit with bad

news this morning. All-rounder Chris Woakes could only manage two overs

in their eight wicket win and has now been ruled out for the rest of

the tournament after he suffered a side strain. His replacement has not

yet been named. Gerard Payne will miss out on his first British and

Irish Lions appearance tomorrow. He was on the bench for the first warm

up match in New Zealand but has now been ruled out with a calf problem.

Elliot Daly will take his place. There was a tense finish the women's

Champions League final last night. The final went to penalties with

Lyon beating Paris St Germain seven iPhone six and both goalkeepers

taking a spot kick. Sir Ben Ainslie's team are a step

closer to racing in the America's Cup. They beat France to secure a

play-off place yesterday. That's all the sport for now. We will have more

just after 10am. Thank you. Just expecting the Labour

leader Jeremy Corbyn to be making a speech in York in the next few

minutes. As soon as he starts to speak, we will cross over to that.

"We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us

anymore" - the words of President Trump, as he announced

that the United States is to pull out of the Paris

He's faced a chorus of condemnation internationally and at home.

The UN has called it a "major disappointment",

while the European Union said it was a "sad day for the world".

China said that the world should cherish the outcome

It means the US now sits with Syria and Nicaragua, as the only three

countries in the world not part of the deal.

Mr Trump has said the agreement imposes huge economic burdens

Let's have a listen to some of what the President said last night.

In order to fulfil my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens,

the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord. It is

people, it is taxpayers, so we're getting out but we will start to

negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fare and if we

can, that's great. And if we can't, that's fine.

The newly elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, became the first

president to to make a statement in English from the Elysee Palace,

I can assure you, France will not give up the fight.

I reaffirm clearly that the Paris agreement remains irreversible

Not just by France, but by all the other nations.

Because whereever we live, whoever we are, we all share

Jeremy Corbyn has started speaking in York. Let's have a listen.

Rachel has done a great job in York. I look forward to working within the

next Parliament and good luck. Lots of surprises in store on June nine!

Thank you all for coming this morning and before going any

further, I would like to say a few words about leadership. Donald

Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate

change deal is reckless and dangerous. The commitments made in

Paris - and I was there - are vital to stop the world reaching the point

of no return on climate change. There can be no question of watering

those commitments down. The Paris deal should not ever be up for

renegotiation, only for strengthening of it in the future.

APPLAUSE The other three members of the G7,

European members of the G7, France, Germany and Italy, have written to

Donald Trump this morning to make this very clear. So, why does

Theresa May not have her name on this joint statement? Given the

chance to present a united front from international partners, she has

instead opted for silence and, once again, subservience to Donald Trump.

That is a dereliction of both her duty to this country and our duty to

our planet. This is not the type of leadership Britain needs to

negotiate Brexit all stand up to defend our planet in an era of

climate change. A Labour government would do it very differently.

APPLAUSE I'm delighted to be here in York

today at this wonderful York science park. This is the kind of

organisation and institution that we want to work within the future.

We're here this morning, and I'm very grateful to the York Science

Park for giving us the facilities to launch Labour's industrial with our

strategy industrial secretary Chi on war and Shadow Business Secretary

Rebecca Long-Bailey. They have done an outstanding job in setting up a

serious comprehensive and radical strategies, a blueprint for a

Britain in which no one is held back and in which every region animation

thrice. She and Rebecca are building on the achievements of the last

Labour government whose intervention in 2009 not only saved our

automotive sector but laid the groundwork for it to become one of

the Crown jewels of Britain's economy with hi-tech economy and

efficient cars. We will embrace that to upgrade our economy, create new

good jobs and tackle climate change. High-technology is at the heart of

defending our environment and preserving our climate. At the heart

of our industrial strategy is our plan to modernise our energy

systems, to be 60% renewables by 2030. A big ask that we are

determined to achieve it. I'm proud of the work Chi, Rebecca and my

party have done and I'm particularly proud of all those who have been

involved in our industrial strategy, most centrally involved have been

two women and that is the nature of the modern Labour Party. Thank you

for your work. APPLAUSE

In the cause of this campaign, I've travelled the length and breadth of

this country, almost always by train, setting out the many ways in

which a Labour government would change this country for the better.

On these travels, I see an economy that is grossly imbalanced. Talk to

people and you understand the consequences of this problem. London

overheats and the cost of living there rises, while communities into

much of the rest of the country have seen their local economies hollowed

out, industries decline and stable jobs gone. Right across our country,

too many people are trapped in precarious, low-paid work, while a

few at the top get much richer. Despite Britain's many strengths, we

are not realising our full potential. Failing to harness the

talents of every region and nation. That is why the policies we're

setting out today are among the most important in all of our programme to

transform Britain in our manifesto for the many, not the few.

If today is not just about giving people a fairer share of our

country's wealth, today is about tackling injustices in society at

their root cause and rewriting the rules of our economy for the many

rather than the few. No more can Britain try to sustain its economy

on the back of growth of the financial sector in one corner of

England. Today we set out a bold vision for a different written, in

which work not only pays but gives people a sense of pride and purpose,

in which every individual shares in the creation of wealth, as well as

sharing in its rewards, a Briton in which every community in every

corner of the country is built on the firm foundation of a vibrant

vocal economy. Only Labour will deliver policies that match the

scale of ambition, investing to create 1 million good jobs,

investing in the skills of the workforce and working with industry

to create the winners of the future. Now, it is my pleasure to hand over

the rostrum to our Shadow Business Secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, who

will tell you more of the details of our policy.

Thank you very much indeed. That was the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

addressing voters in York, talking about how he wants to address the

injustices of society, about creating 1 million good jobs as he

describes it and saying too many people are trapped in low-paid work

and not reaching their full potential. He also talked about

President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate change

agreement, which he called reckless and dangerous and said it showed

Theresa May was being subservient to Donald Trump because she was not

signing along with other European countries and address to Donald

Trump condemning what he has done. of the Grantham Institute,

which researches climate And Oxfam's head of global policy

and campaigns, Sally Copley, who has oversight for Oxfam's

campaigns around climate change. Reckless and dangerous? Would you

agree? Yes, it is very reckless and foolish, as well. The world came

together at the Paris meeting in 2015 and agreed we would do

something together against climate change to get the temperature of the

world increase less than 2 degrees over the century and for the

Americans to pull is a serious blow. What effect do you think it will

have for people in the UK, but also around the world? We think it is

immoral and untenable and absurd making this decision to pull-out.

Already millions of people in the world feel the effects of climate

change. It is beyond dispute. The real impact is in people'slives. We

know climate change means more erratic, extreme weather, drought,

flooding, which means for the poorest people in the world, who

have done nothing to cause this, they are feeling the effects already

and it means damaged crops, lost homes, and collapsed livelihoods. We

feel that in the UK where we have seen flooding that has happened that

would not have happened before. In a developed nation we can see the

damage it does to lives. The impact is real and being felt now. What

effect will the US pulling out have Matt? China and the European Union,

only three countries around the are not part of the Paris agreement. One

is the effect of America are not doing so much to reduce emissions.

They have peaked emissions but their reduction will be slower than

planned. Preliminary calculations suggest it might mean one or two

tenths of a degree above the target we hoped for by the end of the

century, which does not sound much but in terms of impact, it is

serious. Nevertheless, it seems other countries will carry on

regardless of the United States and have more energy in doing things to

address the issue. Maybe it is not as bad as thought. We spoke to our

correspondent in Beijing who said the Chinese have almost found

themselves as climate change leaders. That is why we think it is

untenable because across the States, from companies, mayors and state

governors and companies are saying, we will still do that and the reason

is there is momentum behind it and it is urgent. In East Africa there

are 13 million people facing hunger. In one country we have people facing

famine and we say by 2030, if we do not take urgent action, climate

change will lead 100 million people into extreme poverty. There is an

urgency. Do you want to pick up on that? I also think Donald Trump's

statements are foolish because he cannot get out of the agreement for

least two or three years formerly. They can do nothing the next few

years. Getting out of the agreement, what does it mean? Countries have

offered their reductions in the first place, it is voluntary. The

idea is it is a model and a token to the right wing in the United States

that he can say this. Donald Trump says America first, I want to bring

back Cole, create more jobs. Is there a market for selling coal?

This is the observe -- the absurdity. People in the States

think we need to take action around climate change. Nicaragua, there are

two other countries that have not signed up and that is Syria and

Nicaragua. Nicaragua did not sign up because they said it did not go far

enough. They say they will be signing up because they do not want

to be left with Donald Trump and president Assad of Syria, which

speaks volumes. Clean energy is getting cheaper. Does it mean people

are investing in it and it can take over. Will the Chinese invest in

technology? They are investing hugely. If America is not careful

they will be left behind investing in dirty energy and the bad effects

it has while the rest of the world invest in clean energy and gets the

benefits. The alternatives we can do in adaptation are important,

actually helping families and households to cope now and we help

families in Bangladesh where we help people build homes and toilets above

flood water and help families to develop floating gardens and in

South Africa with farmers to help them build crops that mature more

quickly so they are less susceptible to unpredictable rainfall. There are

exciting and innovative things happening and that is where the

smart move would be to go. That is where the growth will be. Donald

Trump is talking about renegotiating the deal and if you can do that so

he is happy with it, he is willing to sign up. What are the chances? It

is not clear what he means. He cannot renegotiate insofar as saying

he will produce less emissions as previously said. There is an

interesting parallel with the Kyoto accord in 2005 where George W Bush

was being difficult. The other countries were getting annoyed. The

representative from Papua new Guinea said if you will not lead us, get

out of the way. I want to bring in Tom Bateman. He has been listening

to the comments by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He said President

Trump was reckless and dangerous, something we have been talking

about, for pulling out of the climate change deal and laid out

Labour's industrial strategy. Tom, thank you, I realise it is busy.

Reckless and dangerous he said about President Trump's decision. Strong

words. I think we are seeing this big international decision being

used for political capital on the election campaign among the parties.

Last night, Downing Street expressed disappointment that President Trump

had withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement. Jeremy Corbyn giving the

speech about jobs and the economy, it was the first thing he addressed

and he was passionate on the podium, deeply critical of the withdrawal,

saying it would be damaging for the climate and global warming and

saying he felt the Conservative leadership, government ministers had

not reacted in the way he thought they would, saying Theresa May had

been silent and subservient to Donald Trump, and saying this was

the kind of leadership that would not be good enough to get a tough

Brexit negotiation for Britain. We know senior Conservatives are saying

every country has their own way of responding but they have not signed

up to the denunciation of this by three other European countries and

again that the something Jeremy Corbyn criticised. Expect to see

more political reaction in the UK about the way this is responded to

is debated. Tom, our political correspondent at the speech made by

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. What do you think is the way forward now? We

know President Trump said he is pulling out. The Chinese and

Europeans are reaffirming their commitment to it. What should people

be doing? Forcing Donald Trump to change his mind will go ahead

without him? We can carry on doing all the things we are doing in terms

of developing renewable energy and implementing efficiency measures and

the politicians can be talking to Donald Trump and persuade him it is

in America's interest to be doing something. We expect a strong

statement from the EU China Summit today and we expect it by lunchtime.

The only thing to do is carry on and show how absurd it is. President

Trump and his administration seem to behave as if they can lift America

out of the world and isolate it from climate change which is not

possible. It is not over. It is too late for already for it to be over.

Thanks for coming in. That will rumble on and we will speak to you

again. We have several comments on social media. Let me tell you about

this. Coming up, the parents of Charlie Gard, the sick baby who

doctors say should have his life support switched off have told the

programme why they feel their rights as parents have been taken away and

why they cannot give up fighting. Helen says on Facebook, saying my

friend's baby was born with his organs in the wrong place. Doctors

told them to walk away and they refused. It was their sixth child

and the other five were born perfect. They fought for his life

and he had 32 operations and he lived. The doctors said the strong

bond from mother, father and other children were immense and they came

close over the baby's young years. Isn't every life worth it? You can

add your thoughts. Now the weather. We have got a hot day across the

South East of England with storms developing later. For many of us, it

will turn changeable. A fresh breeze for most. Plenty of dry weather and

sunshine but also heavy showers. We have this band of rain moving

through eastwards through the night and at the moment a narrow band of

rain from northern England to the south-west of England. Associated

with this cold front. Behind it, we have fresher conditions. Ahead of

it, warm, hot and humid conditions and perhaps storms developing here

later. Behind the front, try -- dry weather. Showers moving in on time

to time. Butchers, 14, 17 degrees. Feeling fresh. Northern England. A

cloudy in the afternoon, particularly in the north-east where

will be showers. Cloudy in east Wales and the Midlands. South-east

England will have sunshine. It will turn hot. Temperatures up to 27

degrees. There is the risk of heavy and thundery showers. Cloud into the

West Country. Cornwall, sunshine here, and west Wales, but further

east across Wales, cloud. Overnight, storms that form in the south-east

will clear. Fresher air will come to all of us by early Saturday with

temperatures down to 10-12. Perhaps warmer in the south-east at 16

degrees. Saturday, starting dry and bright. Cloud in eastern areas and

showers here which will clear. Showers them focus towards Scotland,

Northern Ireland. There could be a rumble of thunder, as well.

Elsewhere in the south-east, temperatures 20-22. The changeable

weather is because of low pressure. The airstream will bring in showers

as we go through Sunday. The showers focused mainly in Scotland, Northern

Ireland, into Wales and south-west England. On Sunday for most, dry.

More details available on the website.

It is Friday at 10am and I am Chloe Tilley. Parents of Charlie Gard who

doctors say should have as life support switched off tell us why

they will keep fighting for him to go to the US for experimental

treatment. It is the legendary life or death, isn't it, so if we don't

get this opportunity he is going to die. What is the alternative? Yeah,

Sony hasn't got anything to lose. Even if it doesn't work, which I

think it will, we know we have done everything we can for him.

There's a new song out at the moment criticising Theresa May

and the Conservatives - it's already number two

on the iTunes chart, but no radio station seems

to want to play it - we find out why.

Loads of you are getting in touch about today's Election Blind Date

with Jess Phillips and John Whittingdale talking about rubbish,

heavy metal and their colleagues. Are you saying every man got there

on merit? There are some who you think, yeah, how did you get here...

But that is one of the strengths of parliament in a way, that it is so

diverse. Good morning. Here is Annita McVeigh

in the newsroom with a summary of the news.

The president of the European Commission and the Chinese Premier

have said there will be no backsliding on international

commitments to the Paris climate accord - despite President's Trump's

decision to withdraw from the treaty.

Mr Trump said the deal disadvantaged the US and threatened American jobs.

Here, Theresa May expressed her disappointment over the President's

decision but says Britain remains committed to the agreement.

Body in Brussels, leaders from the EU and China have been reaffirming

their commitment. In Europe, China and the world, this provides the

certainty they need to build a global low carbon economy. It makes

a statement to the world that there is no reverse gear to the energy

change issue. There is no backsliding on the Paris agreement.

Police have released a video showing former world number one golfer

Tiger Woods taking a breathalyser test after being found asleep

The athlete was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.

The video shows Woods slurring as he provides his personal

information to a police officer before taking a blood test.

The athlete says that an unexpected reaction to legal

At least 36 people have died at a casino in the Philippines,

opened fire before killing himself.

Police in Manila say most of the victims died of suffocation

after the man set fire to casino tables.

Officers had feared the attack was terrorist related,

but now believe the motive was robbery.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

Thank you, Anita Remember you can contact us throughout the day to

talk if you text, you will be charged at the standard network

rate. England all rounder Chris Woakes has

been ruled out of the rest of the Champions Trophy,

due to a side strain sustained in yesterday's win over Bangladesh

in the opening match Woakes could only manage two

overs before the injury. His replacement has

not yet been named. Centre Jared Payne is the British

and Irish Lions first injury concern of their tour of New Zealand -

he will miss the first match tomorrow against

the Provincial Barbarians Payne, a former member

of the New Zealand under-20s side, had been picked

on the bench for the first match on his first Lions tour but has now

been replaced by England winger There's no indication as yet

as to how serious Payne's injury is. French side Lyon secured a slice

of footballing history They won the Women's Champions

League in dramatic fashion, winning 7-6 on pemalties

against Paris St-Germain. Both

goalkeepers ended up taking spotkicks - with Lyon's Sarah

Bouhaddi scoring the decisive penalty in front of 22,000 fans

at the Cardiff City Stadium. Sir Ben Ainslie's Land Rover BAR

team have secured a play-off place in the Americas Cup after winning

a thrilling race with Team France. The British team had earlier retired

in their first race of the day but bounced back to edge out France

in their second. Their victory means they now

have an unassailable lead over Sweden and France in

the qualifying table. The winners of the series go forward

to challenge Team Oracle USA We had an amazing race against the

French team. Felt amazing. We struggled a bit on the downward

likes but we hung in there. The guys did a great sailing the boat and we

just got out with a little bit of pressure and we closed in and took a

win by the narrowest of margins. That is all the sport for now. We

will be back with more later on. On this programme we've

been following the case Charlie is incredibly sick

and is being cared for 24 hours The doctors there say

there is nothing they can do to save him and want to turn

off his life support - but his parents are fighting to stop

that from happening. This week the Supreme Court

granted them another week, before judges decide

what should happen. Connie and Chris are trying to keep

Charlie alive long enough to take him to America

for an experimental treatment. Hello, thank you very much

for talking to us again. He is still stable,

still fighting, he is cracking on. Well, it's probably got worse

from the last time we were here. But we keep our strength

up for Charlie. He has not done what

they said he would do. So, he is still there,

he is still good. Has that surprised

you or not, Connie? It did in the early

days, but not any more. We tend not to worry

about how he is. When we first brought him

into intensive care, we worried we would get the phone call

in the middle of the night. How does he respond

when you are around him? Yeah, we can still pick

him up for cuddles, So we can get in and

we can put our arms Well, he's pretty

weak now, isn't he? But he will still flicker his eyes

at us, and move his mouth when we stroke his cheeks and stuff.

So, he is still there. You said you are angry, Chris.

Why? Just the fact that we have

been fighting for these They could have done

the trial at Great Ormond. And rather than give

Charlie the medicines and see if they work, they have just

left him for five months, just lying there.

So I don't see how that is fair. But that is why we

are where we are now. And the trial you referred

to, you mean what's happening in America,

where you would like to take him, that you said they could provide

those medicines here? Yeah.

They could. I think it's important

to repeat that it is an oral medication, it is a powder

that goes into his milk. You know, if it's an invasive

treatment for a three-month period that is going to seriously harm him

and cause him pain, I don't think But it's the fact that

it's widely accepted that there is no side

effects, so it's not We just want to have that chance

and we don't see why we're not allowed to take our boy

to a hospital What have you learned

about this trial, and what do you believe it

could do for your son? It is literally life

or death, isn't it? If we don't get this

opportunity he is going to die. We know that we've done,

even if it doesn't work, which I think it well,

we know that we've done everything We don't want to live

with that, what if? What is, in terms of

the case that you are pursuing, what is happening

over the next few days? We have got a court hearing next

Thursday, on June the 8th, where they will

decide if we can appeal So it's just another

week where we've got to wait, where he could be

on the medications. Another week which has turned

into months, and more months of him just lying

there when they tried the treatment here.

And you know, we've had to stomach the fact that they don't

want to do the treatment here. OK, we don't agree with that,

but we have to accept that. But the fact they are

blocking us from taking him to another hospital in the world

with one of the leading experts in this area,

I can't, still to this But there is somewhere

out there that does. And they basically just

kept him a prisoner there. And you know, our parental rights

have been completely stripped. The minute we took there,

in hindsight, we lost him. They have got complete

responsibility for him. When we got the appeal papers it

says Connie Yates and Chris Gard versus Great Ormond Street

Hospital and Charlie Gard. And that broke my heart

when we saw that. We are the ones that sit

there with him day in, day out. We are staying 24

hours at the moment. And we can't take

to somewhere that may Is that how you feel

now, Connie, that actually your responsibility

for your son has been taken away? Yeah.

Definitely. Because we've had the money

for over two months now. So I don't see how it is in his best

interests to lie there without medication when in all that time

he could have had a chance. There are no side effects,

no major side-effects. It's not going to

cause him any harm. There is nothing to

suggest that we are. I don't think anyone

can question that. My friend said to me yesterday,

his name is Charlie Gard, The way you have talked

about it, Chris, it is as though you believe your son

is being kept prisoner. Is trapped, in a way,

in the hospital. As I say, we have got

one of the world's leading expert in this area

and this condition saying he is willing to treat him

and try to save his life. Yeah.

He is fit to fly. If we got the go-ahead

we'd be there tomorrow. And yet we are just

stuck there, waiting weeks and months, just with him

in the same condition, not getting any better

because he is lacking the medicines What quality of life

could he potentially have We hear a lot of negative

things about what it could achieve or what it couldn't

achieve, but no one knows. Everyone says this hasn't

been tested before But it has had fantastic results

with a similar condition. So no one knows how

it could work for It may not work, or it

could work better than it does But even though it's never been

tested on humans, as you say, in court the judge said the type

of treatment you want Charlie to have in America hasn't even

reached the experimental stage on mice,

and that it would be They have tried it on mice but not

with Charlie's condition. It was a mouse with

a similar condition. They then went on to

try it with humans. There is no reason why it wouldn't

work for Charlie the same as it has worked

for other people. And we feel just because he has

got a rare disease, like he's number 16 that we know of,

reported, I think if it was something more common

there would be mouse trials. It doesn't mean it's not

going to work just because it costs hundreds of thousands

of pounds to do these animal trials. You have been unsuccessful

in your appeals so far. You have managed to delay

the deadline for your son's You will find out

if you can appeal to the Supreme Court next

Thursday, as you say. I mean, what you are experiencing

is unimaginable for How do you deal with this

deadline hanging over you? Well, I don't know,

is the answer to that question. If you'd said to me seven

and a half months ago that all this would happen, then I would have

said there is no way in a million Charlie is our son,

we love him and we will fight Whatever we have to go through to

get him the chance that he needs, Because he is our son

and we love him. But if you don't get permission

to appeal to the Supreme Court? We'll fight all the way to

the European Court of Human Rights. While he's still fighting,

we're still fighting. We have said that from

the very beginning. And he has fought so hard

to still be here and he is still fighting,

so while he is still fighting, Well, I mean, you know,

we've had a very brutal court case. We have to sit there and be quiet

while they're kind of talking about our son like he is a piece

of meat, at some stages. And he's not a piece of meat,

he is our son and we love him.

And, you know, I... If and when I criticise

Great Ormond St and, I want to make it clear that I'm not

talking about the nurses that looked Because they are truly

amazing people. They have cared for him

and the care he has received has But obviously it is

difficult at the hospital, We are trying to deal with all this

stuff while our son is lying there, you know, not deteriorating but just

not getting any better because he We haven't enjoyed

life for a long time. But it is not about us,

it is about our little boy. And we will keep fighting

for him, no matter what. Have you been able to contemplate

the life-support being switched off? No, I've tried to go

there in my head, because obviously it is a strong

possibility, but no, I can't. Not when there is

something out there If all options had been

exhausted and there was nothing left and this was how

it was going to be for the rest

of his life, then I think we would have to hold our hands up

and say, enough is enough. But the fact there is

something out there that can help him, I don't

understand why they can't try it. What is your message

then to the judges? The same as it has been

all along, give him a chance. It is a medication that

will not harm him in It's widely accepted it

has no side effects. Let us take our son to a hospital

that wants to save his life. It's clear we are

dedicated to our son. Let us take him to a hospital

that is going to try to save his life.

That is just my message. I don't see why we

are not allowed to. We brought him into this world,

we have looked after him from Let us take him to a hospital that

wants to try to save his life, and possibly save more

lives in the future. Charlie is our number one priority,

always has been, always will be. But if this works for him,

and they say he is in such a dire condition, and his life

gets improved and saved, then God knows what it can do

for this disease in the future. Other kids could be saved, it can be

administered a lot earlier. And, you know, this

could be a breakthrough in medicine in mitochondrial

disease, you never know. At the moment it is

incurable until we do But it doesn't mean

it isn't treatable. Diabetes is incurable

but it is treatable. Things like that.

He is actually very stable. He doesn't require

intensive care for the reasons you think

he requires intensive care. Whereas if he had a tracheostomy,

that should be on a ward. There are a lot of ill children

in intensive care that we see He is probably still the most

And that is what makes it really hard for us.

Because I think when people think a child is in intensive care,

that they are actually suffering at that point.

But if he was suffering, we wouldn't be fighting.

And what do you say to the judges who will make

a decision on whether you can appeal to the Supreme Court, or whether

your son's life-support should be switched off?

And we deserve it as a family as well.

If it doesn't work we will let him go but we will know

that we have done everything that we possibly can.

And everyone else has done everything they possibly can.

The doctor said, even he said, if after three months there was no

sign of improvement, he wouldn't carry on.

So it's not as if we're about to get to the end of the three

months and go, you know what, he has got it tracheostomy

now, we can keep alive. The doctor will not carry on.

So that would be very final for us. And we can go, you know what?

We tried everything we possibly could.

That was the parents of nine-month-old Charlie Gard speaking

to Victoria. A lot of you getting in touch about this heartbreaking

story. Rachel on Facebook, a horrible position to be in. What do

you do for the best? Take the doctor 's advice and letting go or do you

do everything you can to save your child and give them a fighting

chance? If it were my child I would go with my gut feeling and if that

was to fight on, say B. This time next week we should know

who our next Prime Minister is. After a busy week of election

campaigning and high-profile TV appearances, where do we stand now,

and how much of a game-changer Here are some of the highlights

of the political scene this week. I spent 48 hours after the last

general election trying to talk people out of killing themselves

and I didn't always succeed. Anybody who votes for

the Conservative Party who are going to further these cuts,

who are going to keep on with these cuts,

they are complicit in these deaths. There are plenty of heart-rending

stories here and nobody could be We have put 11,000 more doctors

into the NHS, 12,000 more nurses. We have got renewed focus on mental

health and also trying to make sure we take the pressure off big

hospitals in the manifesto. But the raw truth is, the money's

got to come from somewhere. You have openly supported

the IRA in the past. Attending a commemoration

for the eight IRA men Now, in your words,

it was to honour them. Maybe you can share

with the electorate why those IRA The commemoration I think

you are referring to was a meeting I was at in London,

where there was a period of silence for everyone who died

in Northern Ireland. The contribution I made to that

meeting was to call for a piece The contribution I made to that

meeting was to call for a peace and dialogue process in Northern

Ireland. Nobody can guarantee a real terms

per-pupil funding increase. In the Labour Party's manifesto,

we know the figures don't add up. Please let the Prime

Minister answer. What we need to do is to make sure

that we will put those record How much will it cost to provide

un-means tested childcare They will obviously

cost a lot to do so. You've announced a major

policy and you don't know Can I give you the exact

figure in a moment? Is this not exactly the issue

with people and the Labour Party, which came up under Gordon Brown,

that we cannot trust All our manifesto is fully

costed and examined. You're holding your manifesto,

you're flicking through it, you've got an iPad there,

you had a phone call while you were in here,

and you don't know how much Can we come back

to that in a moment? I invite her to go to Cambridge

and debate her policies, debate her record, debate

their plans, the proposal, And let the public

make up their minds? First of all, I've been taking

on Jeremy Corbyn directly week in and week out in Prime Minister's

Questions. And actually, yes, public scrutiny

is for an election campaign but that's why taking questions

from members of the public who are going to be voting

on the 8th of June is so important. Plaid Cymru exists to defend

and build up our country. We've shown time and again,

you don't need the keys to Number Ten to open

the door to change. This election is about the kind

of country we want to be. Now, more than ever,

Scotland needs strong SNP The Prime Minister

is not here tonight. She can't be bothered,

so why should you? In fact, Bake Off

is on BBC Two next. You are not worth

Theresa May's time. Part of being a good

leader is having a good I am delighted and proud

to be here representing the Conservative Party

and the Prime Minister We can talk to political analyst and

pollster John Curtice. Also Jim Waterson, political editor of

BuzzFeed. And the senior political correspondent at the Telegraph

newspaper. We were smiling at some of those clips. It has been such a

weak. Kate, how significant has it been? Fairly significant. After what

happened in Manchester, the campaigns took a pause and this week

things have got going again and it gave Labour and the Conservatives an

opportunity to kick-start campaigns you don't normally get to do in

campaigns because usually it is a running story. Elections are about

storytelling and convincing voters you have the best ending and up till

this point I don't think any party had done that. People concerned

about Theresa May, very concerned about Jeremy Corbyn, a lot of people

do not understand what Tim Farron and the Lib Dems are about. Theresa

May came into the election saying she would get a huge majority to

lead the country through Brexit and now it looks it might not be the

case. And now the whole thing we said we would never do again from

2015 when we talk about polls and believe them to be gospel, we are

doing it again and now every story is based around is there going to be

a hung parliament, will Jeremy Corbyn get enough seats to survive?

Will Theresa May's majority go up a little so she is under pressure

internally? The Conservatives are probably happy the narrative is the

polls are closing because they will think it will get their vote out

next Thursday. We are into the weird black box stage. Everything poured

in and it is now what ever comes out the other side. There is not a lot

left to do unless somebody has a big policy to announce we have not heard

of. The polls got a ripping in 2015. Is there a danger we put too much

emphasis on them and we could get it wrong again? There is obviously a

danger we put too much emphasis on them. But the truth is there was a

coincidence clearly this week between the drama and Theatre of the

campaign and the message of the opinion polls. The question we asked

ourselves in the wake of the horrendous event in Manchester was

whether the election campaign would restart at the same point the pause

button was pressed. Or whether it would restart at a different place.

I think the answer is it started where it left off with just a few

hours earlier with the Prime Minister in trouble, because she

tried to convince as she had not changed the policy on social care,

when I think 99.9% of journalists decided she had earned this question

about strong and stable leadership began to be questioned as a result.

Because of that slip and basically the journalists started the campaign

back on that issue and the question of leadership and social care, and

therefore the perception the Conservative campaign was proving to

be the less effective, with the opinion polls, whatever the

disagreements about the level of support for the parties, but

absolute unanimity between them the Conservative lead was narrowing

significantly and Ede two things together inevitably mean is the

Conservatives have been under pressure. I take Jim's point. There

is a danger of campaigns being too driven by polls but in this case the

point was the message of the polls that the public seem to react

unfavourably to the Conservative campaign and relatively favourable

to the Labour one fitted the narrative coming out of the campaign

is being reported and investigated by journalists. I want to chat about

who has had the better week. Theresa May did not turn up to one debate.

Tim Farron said don't bother voting for her, she cannot be bothered to

turn up here. Jeremy Corbyn, he did not know how much the childcare

policy would cost. Who has come out better? People who care about the

news watch politics programmes and get enthusiastic but unfortunately

they are a small proportion of the population. What matters is what is

on the front page of newspapers like the metro, what they hear on

bulletins on the news. One thing this week, Jeremy Corbyn not knowing

the numbers and whether it matters is another thing that news editors

put it there so it did. Another thing was the Theresa May not

turning up to the debate which ran everywhere and as far as we can tell

cut through her decision and a wonderful ambush by Jeremy Corbyn

turning up to take on Amber Rudd by himself.

Isn't it funny how we are talking about who has had a better week when

the Conservatives are and was have been ahead in this poll. This is the

incumbent governing party. They have been the government for a number of

years and you've got Jeremy Corbyn coming in and promising lots of

things like student fees and increasing money for benefits and

the things that people very much like, and Labour still behind in the

polls. I think you've got to look at... I know we're talking about how

polling doesn't necessarily matter but you've got to look at how people

feel. When you talk to people, what is the gut feeling? What a Blue

Bloods were talking about? People are still saying, I like Labour and

have voted Labour before but there is usually a but even with people

who are really strong Labour supporters and that but is Jeremy

Corbyn and that is a problem for the party because even if the policies

are good, at the end of the day, when people get into the polling

booth they think about things like Brexit, the economy and, actually,

quite a lot of people, I think, feel things aren't that bad, they could

be worse, maybe I will just stick where I am and I think that although

we are seeing some shifting and the polls tightening, the Conservatives

are still ahead, Theresa May is still going to constituencies where

they don't have an MP at the moment. She wouldn't be doing that if she

really thought her internal polling was showing that they were on for

about resulted there was another thing there which is that no matter

which way the result goes, Jeremy Corbyn's position as Labour leader,

which was... Most of the centrist anti-Corbyn factions thought this

would be disastrous election weather would be completely wiped out and

would remove Jeremy straight afterwards, I think from talking to

people around that, they certain that he is going to be able to stay

no matter what because the party is behind the members are behind even

if they go backwards in terms of seats. I think there are 200 things

to remember about this election. This is an asymmetric contest.

Because expectations of Jeremy Corbyn were so low at the beginning,

because his ratings were frankly appalling at the beginning of this

campaign, basically all he has had to do is to turn up and, for the

most part, do reasonably well and the truth is, apart from the Woman's

Hour interview he has managed to do reasonably well. People have said,

hang on, maybe he is not quite so bad after all, therefore as a result

his ratings have improved. The second thing I would say is that

Kate is absolutely right. Nobody is talking about the Labour Party

winning this general election, not even the narrowest of opinion polls

point to that, but that is not what this election is about. What it is

about is the Prime Minister's original objective, which was to get

a landslide majority so she had freedom vis-a-vis dissension insider

Parliamentary party about any compromises you made about Brexit.

The problem but now faces the Prime Minister is that most of the opinion

polls are now suggesting she is no longer guaranteed to achieve that

objective and therefore as a result may emerge as a result after the

election not actually free of the Parliamentary party but with her

authority we can dump that matters to the future of the next

government, the Conservative Party and that's why this election has

become a lot more interesting. Yes, it is not about who wins, whether

Theresa May wins adequately enough, or does she end up in a worse place

than she started on April 18? This time next week, we are going to no!

Thank you so much for joining us. I do appreciate it. We have breaking

news to bring you. I want to speak to Daniel Sandford who is here to

break this -- brings us up-to-date with the breaking news.

It goes back to concerns about election expenses that were filed

after the 2015 general election. You may remember that that a lot of MPs

were cleared of having done anything wrong in their election expenses a

few weeks ago. We're now looking at the seat of South Thanet, when Nigel

Farage was beaten by Craig Mackinlay and in the last two minutes, the

Crown Prosecution Service has announced that Mackinlay, the then

MP candidate in this his agent and a senior party activist will all be

charged under the representation of the People's sat 1983. Craig

Mackinlay has been charged with essentially filing false expenses,

his agent has been charged with the same and Marion Little, who was

given OBEs after the 2015 election for services to the Conservative

Partyparty as a campaign specialist has been charged with aiding and

abetting and they will all appear at West Meta Magistrates' Court on July

four, just a few weeks after this election is over. -- Westminster

Magistrates' Court. What does that mean for this election? Is he still

able to stand? He is still able to stand on Rumba to put him in a

difficult position with his constituents because he will go into

the election next week with having been charged after the last

election. Thank you for dropping by to tell us that. Still to come...

The new song that criticises the Government and could end up being

number one on the official chart this afternoon. We find out why

radio stations are reluctant to play it.

And how thousands of people have tried to claim free tickets, just

a's concert for the bombing survivors despite not having been

there at the time of the attack. Let's get some sport now with you.

After victory over Bangladesh in their opening match of the Champions

Trophy, England's cricketers have been hit with bad news this morning.

All-rounder Chris works has been ruled out for the west of the

tournament after he suffered a side strain and his replacement has not

yet been named Gerry Peyton will miss out on his first British and

Lions match tomorrow. He has been ruled out after a calf problem.

Elliot Daly will take its place. There was a tense finish to the

women's Champions League final Lyon secured back troubles. Baby Paris St

Germain 7-6. Sir Ben Ainslie's Land Rover BAE our team are a step closer

to the America's Cup. They were tied in their first race but came back to

beat France and serve secured themselves. That is all the sports.

I will be back with more in Newsroom Live after 11am.

Now, it's the new song which people are talking about,

The song criticises Theresa May and the Conservatives.

It's already number 2 on the iTunes chart,

on the official chart, which is revealed this afternoon.

But however high it gets, Radio 1 has said it

Because we're less than a week away from the general election

But not everyone thinks that's a good enough reason.

Here now is Jake Painter, who came up with the hit.

We did ask someone from the BBC to come on and explain the rules,

Instead, we can speak to Kevin Marsh,

And Dr Peter Goddard, a media professor from

Thanks to all of you for coming in. Jake, first of all, where did the

idea come from for this track? I wrote the song in 2010 initially,

because I was pretty appalled at the coalition government and their

austerity budget and tuition fees and that sort of thing. I wrote it

then and released at about seven years ago. There was some traction

on the internet and I have been writing political music for about

seven years and released a lot of other things but about a month ago

when the election was called, I felt so despondent about where this

country is going with the NHS cuts and police cuts and school funding

and that kind of thing and I felt like, I am going to do this again

aimed at Theresa May. Let's have a quick listen.

# We all know politicians like telling lies

# Saying they're strong and stable won't disguise

# Nurses going hungry, schools in decline

# I don't recognise this broken country of mine

That is Jake's track. Before I bring in Kevin, were you surprised that it

is not being played anywhere? I'm absolutely horrified. I think it

is... When you look at the bias in the media, not trust the BBC but the

wider media in general, I think, towards the Tory party, therapies

only studies on this - LSE, Cardiff University, Birkbeck - massively

waited in terms of... We have rules here at the BBC and I'm sure Kevin

can come in on this. Every programmer scrutinised so heavily

during an election period. You have to make sure you give equal weight

to political parties, so that there is a fair reflection out there.

Presumably these are the conversations that will be going on

right now in the BBC about radio one not playing this trap? Of course.

The controller of radio Mackinlay would not have made this decision on

his own. He would have made the decision quite widely. During an

election the BBC has to do is serve impartiality all the time... That is

what the guidelines say. During an election it is actually quite hard

to in chief impartiality so we tend to aim for a thing called balance,

so that things are balanced one with another, interviews balance on with

another. The problem I think that the controller of Radio 1 would have

had here is that this is a very good protest song, excellent protest

song, but how does that play within the overall balance of an election

campaign? I'm pretty sure this track will be played in full once the

election is over. Of course it is not just the BBC. Independent radio

stations are governed by Ofcom rules. Ofcom rules are actually

slightly tied to the BBC rules, as it happens. But at the end of the

day, you have a situation where for a few weeks away there is an

election and there is a requirement to be able to demonstrate, not just

be balanced but demonstrate using numbers, charts, spreadsheets, how

that balance has been achieved. But if we're going to be demonstrating

balance, look at the tweets of Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Robinson. We

doubt about the wider BBC. But you can't take tweets out of context.

Correspondence and editors are employed by the BBC to give forward

their opinions, as well as report on the facts within the view. That is

right, isn't it? Within their role as political editor. The point about

impartiality isn't that you are trying to be objective, that is not

possible. But what you are trying to do is look at as much of the

evidence as you possibly can, using your experience, judgment of

expertise, to come to review, so that when Nick Robinson or Laura

Kuenssberg is criticised, they are being criticised for coming to a

view but it is a view based on the fact in as much as they can assess

them and the widest range of views possible. That is not quite the same

as balance during an election. But is something that I as an editor

always had to be able to show with numbers. And they are literally

numbers. We have to take it off, who is getting airtime. I want to bring

in Dr Peter Goddard. Listen to what has been said, do you think the BBC

has got it right in not playing this track? It is a very difficult one.

Kevin is right that the BBC needs to show balance but it is not as

straightforward as just counting or talk about impartiality, it is how

we interpret it. The guidelines talk about news and political advertising

and this track doesn't quite conform to either of those things. In fact,

the BBC has, as you have done just now, played it as a news story,

played part of the song, talked about it online and so on, the

lyrics have been reproduced. So as a news story, it is newsworthy and

that fits into one conception of balance. It is not a political

advertisement, it doesn't fall into the party election broadcast

situation. It is a phenomenon on. It is a song in the top ten,

consequently the BBC sort of has a duty to play it as part of the chart

showing. The idea of the chart show is that the BBC plays without fear

or favour the songs that happen to be in the top ten, so playing it on

Radio 1 in the chart show is particularly awkward situation. My

sense here is that the BBC is erring on the side of caution because the

rules don't explicitly cover this order situation. It is worth saying

it is not just the BBC but other independent radio stations like

capital Heart and heart. Is there a danger that the BBC can't win? I

think the BBC and other radio stations should take that risk there

was a whole generation of young people whose futures are looking

pretty bleak and, you know, this song has been downloaded and viewed

by hundreds of thousands of them, so they've exercised their right to buy

it and listen to it so let them listen to its. I might also add on

that as well before I came on, your editor asked me not to go too heavy

on the Tories. Die Roten anti-Tory song but I am being asked maybe not

be too heavy on this interview. To be fair, that, once again, falls

into what Kevin said. If we have someone who does an anti-Labour

song, an auntie Lib Dem song, and Andy Ukip song... It is all about

that impartiality. It is about the balance of impartiality. The BBC

cannot win. Somebody is going to see the decision the BBC makes as the

wrong decision and that is where you find yourself as a BBC editor but

the important thing is to be able to explain, look, this was the

principle according to which me made this decision. In an ideal world,

even those who oppose the decision you come to understand the reason

why you did it. They may not accept but that is where, in the BBC, we

try to get to. Thank you all for coming onto the programme. I

appreciate it, and giving us your time this morning.

Again, we did ask the BBC to explain why it's decided

The Vodafone Big Top 40 is a chart show broadcast on 140

radio stations, including Heart and Capital, and is a compilation

of the 40 most downloaded songs in the UK.

Their spokesperson gave us this statement...

Loads of messages about today's Election Blind Dates

with Conservative politician John Whittingdale and Labour

Here's a reminder of how they got on.

I am Jess Phillips. I was the Labour member of Parliament for Birmingham

Yardley and am now the candidate in the election. I was raised to hate

the Tories. There are still some I think of as three headed monsters. I

was anxious going out with somebody, I don't know who it is. I would not

want it to be anybody boring. I am John Whittingdale, the Parliamentary

candidate at the moment for Maldon in Essex. My confession is I am