:00:07. > :00:14.The Prime Minister says if the Conservatives win on June
:00:15. > :00:17.8th, she'll build a stronger Britain.
:00:18. > :00:25.Labour challenge her over her refusal to take part in TV debates.
:00:26. > :00:30.People will have a real choice at this election between a Conservative
:00:31. > :00:35.Government that has shown we can build a stronger economy and a
:00:36. > :00:39.Labour Party whose economic policy would bankrupt this country. Mr
:00:40. > :00:42.Speaker, if she is so proud of our record, why won't she debate it?
:00:43. > :00:43.Also on the programme this lunchtime:
:00:44. > :00:45.The former Chancellor George Osborne announces
:00:46. > :00:48.he's quitting as an MP - for now - to concentrate on his
:00:49. > :00:53.Prince William speaks out about his mother's death,
:00:54. > :00:57.saying the shock of losing her is still with him 20 years later.
:00:58. > :01:02.Such an unbelievably big moment in your
:01:03. > :01:11.Police name the man they want to question about an acid attack
:01:12. > :01:13.at a London nightclub as Arthur Collins, the boyfriend
:01:14. > :01:20.Pride of the Lions, Warren Gatland names the squad to tour New Zealand.
:01:21. > :01:22.And in sport: Andy Murray's playing his first competitive
:01:23. > :01:23.match after recovering from an elbow injury.
:01:24. > :01:26.He's taking on Gilles Muller in the second round of
:01:27. > :02:00.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News. Parliament has been asked
:02:01. > :02:04.to approve the Prime Minister's call for a snap general election in seven
:02:05. > :02:09.weeks. MPs will vote this afternoon on approving the early election.
:02:10. > :02:13.Theresa May claims victory on the 8th of June would strengthen her
:02:14. > :02:17.hand with EU leaders as she begins Brexit negotiations, and she
:02:18. > :02:20.promises to deliver a stronger Britain, but Jeremy Corbyn
:02:21. > :02:26.questioned why voters should believe her after her U-turn on holding a
:02:27. > :02:31.snap election. Our political correspondent Ian Watson reports.
:02:32. > :02:36.The Westminster bubble is fit to burst. National and international
:02:37. > :02:41.broadcasters have pitched up outside parliament even before the election
:02:42. > :02:45.has been formally agreed by MPs. The Prime Minister already has her key
:02:46. > :02:49.messages in place. She wants to fight on leadership and Brexit. I
:02:50. > :02:54.will be campaigning and taking to voters... Taking to voters the
:02:55. > :02:58.message of the record of this Conservative Government. But
:02:59. > :03:02.crucially, of our plans to make Brexit a success and to build a
:03:03. > :03:06.stronger Britain for the future. And every vote for the Conservatives
:03:07. > :03:10.will make it harder for those who want to stop me from getting the job
:03:11. > :03:14.done. Every vote for the Conservatives will make me stronger
:03:15. > :03:19.when I negotiate for Britain with the EU. Theresa May needs two thirds
:03:20. > :03:22.of MPs to agree to an election on the 8th of June. It is certain she
:03:23. > :03:26.will get that backing this afternoon. The Lib Dems are also
:03:27. > :03:31.keen to fight the election on Brexit, both from a different
:03:32. > :03:36.perspective. This morning, the Lib Dem leader visited the scene of his
:03:37. > :03:41.party's by-election victory in Richmond, south-west London, last
:03:42. > :03:44.year. It is an opportunity for the British people to choose to change
:03:45. > :03:47.the direction of our country, to reject a hard Brexit and stay in the
:03:48. > :03:55.single market. However you voted last June, it is a chance to vote
:03:56. > :03:59.for strong opposition. Theresa May may want this to be a Brexit
:04:00. > :04:02.election, but prime ministers can't always set the terms of the debate
:04:03. > :04:06.and campaigns can have a life thereon. Labour wants to pull the
:04:07. > :04:11.focus back towards public services and the economy. At PMQs, the Labour
:04:12. > :04:18.leader criticised Theresa May's decision not to take part in
:04:19. > :04:22.televised debates. Over the last seven years, the Tories have broken
:04:23. > :04:28.every promise on living standards, the deficit, debt, the NHS and
:04:29. > :04:35.school funding. Why should anyone believe a word they say over the
:04:36. > :04:38.next seven weeks? The SNP expect Labour to lose ground in England, so
:04:39. > :04:42.when their leader came to Westminster today, she made a clear
:04:43. > :04:49.picture of the anti-Conservative vote in Scotland. Only the SNP
:04:50. > :04:56.stands between Scotland and an increasingly hardline Tory
:04:57. > :05:00.Government. It is a vote to end posterity and for investment in our
:05:01. > :05:04.public services. The watchword in politics recently has been expect
:05:05. > :05:07.the unexpected. In 50 days, we will know of Theresa May has strengthened
:05:08. > :05:09.her hand or shot herself in the foot. Ian Watson, BBC News,
:05:10. > :05:17.Westminster. Norman Smith is in central lobby for
:05:18. > :05:20.us now. How much have we learned about the election to come from the
:05:21. > :05:27.clash at lunchtime at Prime Minister's Questions? We learned, as
:05:28. > :05:32.you would expect, that this will be a heated, charged, emotive election,
:05:33. > :05:37.not least because of the Brexit element in this contest, and there
:05:38. > :05:41.were a passionate exchanges at PMQs. We also learned that Mrs May wants
:05:42. > :05:45.to make this election not just about Brexit but also about her
:05:46. > :05:49.leadership. In her very first answer, she accused Jeremy Corbyn of
:05:50. > :05:52.not being fit to lead the country, and she contrasted that with a
:05:53. > :05:56.Conservative victory, which she said would bring a strong economy,
:05:57. > :06:00.defence and strong, stable leadership. She wants to play the
:06:01. > :06:05.leadership card. She said a Jeremy Corbyn victory would mean him being
:06:06. > :06:09.propped up on the SNP and the Lib Dems. I think we will hear that
:06:10. > :06:14.leadership theme again and again during the campaign. As for Jeremy
:06:15. > :06:19.Corbyn, it seems to me he wants to play the trust card, saying Mrs May
:06:20. > :06:25.had broken promises on not having a snap election, on the deficit, on
:06:26. > :06:28.debt, on the NHS, on school funding, so what is emerging is a very
:06:29. > :06:34.traditional sort of election campaign, with two very traditional
:06:35. > :06:40.themes - leadership and trust. And they only have seven weeks until
:06:41. > :06:45.this election takes place. Labour's John McDonnell has given us a
:06:46. > :06:51.glimpse of what might be in their manifesto on tax. He has. He
:06:52. > :06:54.suggested that the rich should expect to pay more in tax. When he
:06:55. > :07:04.was challenged about who the rich are, he said those earning 70,000 -
:07:05. > :07:08.80,000. He did not make a specific tax proposal but he has opened up a
:07:09. > :07:12.flank which the Conservatives may seek to seize on to say that better
:07:13. > :07:17.off people could potentially pay more under Labour, but it is clear
:07:18. > :07:22.that Labour want to move this election on to policy issues, away
:07:23. > :07:26.from Brexit, where they have a difficult and anguished stance, onto
:07:27. > :07:28.social care, the NHS and anti-austerity, where they believe
:07:29. > :07:35.they have a popular message. Norman, thank you. The Prime Minister claims
:07:36. > :07:39.that winning the election would strengthen her hand in negotiation
:07:40. > :07:39.with EU leaders over Brexit. Chris Morris looks at
:07:40. > :07:48.what the election will mean for Brexit.
:07:49. > :07:55.The rest of the EU is still deciding on its negotiation guidelines and
:07:56. > :07:59.there will be a summit on the 29th of April to finalise those. Then
:08:00. > :08:02.there will need to be several weeks to turn those guidelines into a
:08:03. > :08:07.formal negotiating director, serve it has always been a plan that talks
:08:08. > :08:10.would start roughly at the beginning of June, so a general election on
:08:11. > :08:16.the 8th of June doesn't make that much difference. Now, if the opinion
:08:17. > :08:20.polls are correct, does a bigger majority for Theresa May strengthen
:08:21. > :08:25.her negotiating hand? Well, at home, on the domestic front, the answer is
:08:26. > :08:29.probably yes. Less chance of a rebellion, either among remain
:08:30. > :08:33.supporters or among those who advocate a more hardline Brexit. If
:08:34. > :08:37.the opinion polls are wrong and more ardent remain supporters enter
:08:38. > :08:44.Parliament, things could be different. What about Theresa May's
:08:45. > :08:47.prospect of negotiating with the rest of the EU? Adelie strengthened
:08:48. > :08:52.if she has a bigger majority? Don't forget this man - Alexis Tsipras,
:08:53. > :09:00.the radical left-wing leader of Greece, who came to office promising
:09:01. > :09:03.an end to austerity and a wholesale re-negotiating -- renegotiation with
:09:04. > :09:08.the EU, but he couldn't deliver. A different circumstance, but winning
:09:09. > :09:13.an election doesn't necessarily improve things. We are on course to
:09:14. > :09:20.leave the EU at the end of March 2019, and the effect of an early
:09:21. > :09:24.election could be biggest in the period immediately after that. If
:09:25. > :09:27.you look at the timetable, had the election been in 2020, who would
:09:28. > :09:32.have been coming up to the most crucial part of the negotiations at
:09:33. > :09:36.the end of the negotiations in what would be starting to be the run-up
:09:37. > :09:40.to a general election. In other words, an election in 2020 would
:09:41. > :09:45.take place when we are, in effect, half in and half out of the EU.
:09:46. > :09:52.Delaying the election would leave all that -- relieve all that
:09:53. > :09:55.pressure. During that transition period, there will have to be
:09:56. > :09:59.compromises on issues such as free movement of people, European budgets
:10:00. > :10:06.and the role of the European Court of Justice. To sum up, an election
:10:07. > :10:11.now and then another election in five years, that should allow a
:10:12. > :10:15.Prime Minister, in theory, to have two years of Article 50
:10:16. > :10:19.negotiations, and then a three-year transition before they need to go
:10:20. > :10:20.back to the country to ask us, the voters, whether we think they've
:10:21. > :10:24.done a good job. The European Commission in Brussels
:10:25. > :10:26.has today confirmed that Brexit negotiations won't begin
:10:27. > :10:28.until after the British elections EU Officials have spent the past 24
:10:29. > :10:33.hours looking at how the UK elections will affect
:10:34. > :10:37.the timetable for negotiations. We can talk to our Europe
:10:38. > :10:50.Correspondent, Gavin Lee. How much of an impact is it likely
:10:51. > :10:53.to have? They have had one day to work out how things change.
:10:54. > :10:59.Yesterday, interestingly, the Vice Chancellor in Germany said this
:11:00. > :11:03.could change the pattern. It could be problematic in terms of how long
:11:04. > :11:07.they have to negotiate Brexit. Things have been adjusted slightly.
:11:08. > :11:11.We heard from Chris saying it would take the other 207A few weeks to
:11:12. > :11:18.work out their negotiating position, which takes us to the end of May. We
:11:19. > :11:21.can't do anything until after June the 8th, when the real political
:11:22. > :11:24.talks will start, but between now and then, there will be civil
:11:25. > :11:30.servants going back and forth to work out a timetable. We think at
:11:31. > :11:34.the moment, it will be two weeks on, one week. When they come to a point
:11:35. > :11:38.where they are to say, we are ready to start, they will start
:11:39. > :11:44.negotiating from the 9th of June. Just two years after
:11:45. > :11:46.the last general election - how are voters viewing the prospect
:11:47. > :11:49.of another one in just seven weeks? Our correspondent,
:11:50. > :12:00.Sima Kotecha, has been talking She has asked for Jeremy Corbyn
:12:01. > :12:06.needs to do to win. Can you do those glasses for me in a minute, please?
:12:07. > :12:11.I will just crack on with my... Karen and Steve run this community
:12:12. > :12:15.centre in the Birmingham constituency of Hodge Hill, and they
:12:16. > :12:22.are not excited by the twists and turns in politics. I wouldn't be
:12:23. > :12:26.hugely into politics, but I do support the Labour Party, in
:12:27. > :12:31.fairness. This constituency has always voted for Labour. They could
:12:32. > :12:36.have a better leader Rob the Labour Party, but I think he will be better
:12:37. > :12:43.than Theresa May. Just because I think Labour are more for the
:12:44. > :12:47.working-class people. Others here I even more critical of the leader.
:12:48. > :12:52.From what I have seen of him, I think he is probably good for the
:12:53. > :12:55.man in the street. However, if we were, bearing in mind the issues
:12:56. > :12:58.with North Korea and the United States, if North Korea were to act
:12:59. > :13:02.upon what they are suggesting and Britain were to go to war, I think
:13:03. > :13:07.Jeremy Corbyn is probably one of the worst people we could have at the
:13:08. > :13:16.helm. Hodge Hill's population is racially diverse, and people live in
:13:17. > :13:19.deprived neighbourhoods. Constituencies like this one
:13:20. > :13:23.probably don't worry Jeremy Corbyn because his party has always won
:13:24. > :13:29.year by a large majority. The key is to win the marginal seats, a crucial
:13:30. > :13:33.battle ground that could win or lose him the election. The man in charge
:13:34. > :13:38.of Labour as many fans here. Some describe him as charming and
:13:39. > :13:42.likeable, but election exhaustion is palpable and is likely to be a
:13:43. > :13:47.factor in how many turn out to vote on the 8th of June.
:13:48. > :13:49.The former Chancellor, George Osborne, is to stand down
:13:50. > :13:52.from Westminster politics - "for now" - at the election,
:13:53. > :13:59.He is shortly due to take up editorship of the newspaper.
:14:00. > :14:04.LE price is in Westminster. How much of a surprise is this, and what do
:14:05. > :14:13.we think he means when he says for now? This is not one of this week's
:14:14. > :14:16.big surprises. Much has been made of George Osborne's work outside of
:14:17. > :14:20.Westminster, not least his decision to become the editor of the London
:14:21. > :14:25.Evening Standard, so it is apt that he made the decision to stand --
:14:26. > :14:29.that he announced his decision to stand down in today's paper. He said
:14:30. > :14:32.he would continue to fight for the Britain he loves from the editor's
:14:33. > :14:36.chair. He said, I don't want to spend the rest of my life being an
:14:37. > :14:39.ex-chancellor, I want new challenges. We have been hearing in
:14:40. > :14:45.recent months about how much he has earned from making speeches. He is a
:14:46. > :14:49.consultant to an asset management company, still has shares in the
:14:50. > :14:54.family wallpaper business, and he has been dabbling in academia. He is
:14:55. > :14:58.45 years old, but he said it was too early to start writing his memoirs.
:14:59. > :15:04.He hinted towards a political comeback, saying he would leave
:15:05. > :15:08.Westminster for now. This is an arch strategist who had his eyes on the
:15:09. > :15:10.leadership. He knows the golden rule of politics: Never say never. Thank
:15:11. > :15:14.you. The Duke of Cambridge has revealed
:15:15. > :15:16.that the shock of his mother's death is still with him 20 years
:15:17. > :15:20.after she was killed in a car crash. Prince William was speaking
:15:21. > :15:22.in a BBC One documentary, Mind Over Marathon -
:15:23. > :15:24.which follows a group of runners who have mental health problems
:15:25. > :15:27.and are training for this Earlier this week, Prince Harry
:15:28. > :15:32.revealed he'd sought counselling to come to terms
:15:33. > :15:34.with Princess Diana's death. Our Royal Correspondent,
:15:35. > :15:38.Peter Hunt reports. Exercise can help with
:15:39. > :15:42.mental health issues. Ten runners pursuing a shared goal,
:15:43. > :15:45.a marathon for their minds as much All of them have suffered
:15:46. > :15:52.and continue to suffer from turmoil And you're convinced
:15:53. > :15:55.it can help mental health? Most definitely,
:15:56. > :15:57.from personal experience. Rhian is one of
:15:58. > :16:00.the marathon novices. Her one-year-old son, George,
:16:01. > :16:04.died five years ago. Five days later, her husband Paul,
:16:05. > :16:07.who blamed himself, PTSD has been a huge thing
:16:08. > :16:22.that I've had to carry. The runners are being
:16:23. > :16:24.supported by William, Their Heads Together campaign aims
:16:25. > :16:30.to encourage people to talk When your mum passed away,
:16:31. > :16:39.you were older than my children, but I am worried about
:16:40. > :16:48.them growing up. With a mum like you,
:16:49. > :17:04.they will be fine. You try and understand
:17:05. > :17:08.your emotions more than someone who hasn't had any
:17:09. > :17:11.issues in their lives. because it is explaining to them
:17:12. > :17:14.what those emotions mean If you are angry or down or upset,
:17:15. > :17:21.you can kind of relativise it I still feel 20 years later,
:17:22. > :17:26.about my mother, that I still have You think, no, it
:17:27. > :17:30.can't last that long. It is an unbelievably big
:17:31. > :17:33.moment in your life. He just said straight up
:17:34. > :17:43.they will be all right if they are brought up
:17:44. > :17:46.in a loving and caring First Prince Harry,
:17:47. > :17:57.and now Prince William - two royal brothers who provided
:17:58. > :17:59.an insight into the detrimental Diana's death is one of the reasons
:18:00. > :18:03.William is passionate From my personal point of view,
:18:04. > :18:09.it's the emotional side. I hate seeing people
:18:10. > :18:12.in emotional or mental torment. You can really see it
:18:13. > :18:14.sometimes and it's really sad, because it takes you down
:18:15. > :18:17.a very, very different path in life. The point of the campaign,
:18:18. > :18:20.with the marathon, is we want We want people to talk
:18:21. > :18:23.about mental health The runners will face physical
:18:24. > :18:28.and mental challenges when they compete on Sunday
:18:29. > :18:46.in the London Marathon. And this morning Prince Harry
:18:47. > :18:53.officially opened the London Marathon and said it was only right
:18:54. > :18:54.to share his experiences and hope it will help reduce the stigma of
:18:55. > :18:57.mental health problems. I've shared just as much
:18:58. > :19:00.as everybody else has during this campaign, and after however many
:19:01. > :19:02.years of listening to stories from veterans and their families, and
:19:03. > :19:05.then specifically in this campaign, William, Catherine and I hearing
:19:06. > :19:07.some of the most heart wrenching have experienced, and then
:19:08. > :19:12.the mental anguish that has happened from then, it was only right
:19:13. > :19:15.to share my experiences to hope to encourage others to come
:19:16. > :19:24.forward and sort of ridges -- reduce or smash that stigma,
:19:25. > :19:28.to make it easier for them to talk And Mind over Marathon is on BBC One
:19:29. > :19:40.tomorrow night at 9pm. The snap general election -
:19:41. > :20:00.MPs are asked to approve the vote Sam Warburton of Wales will captain
:20:01. > :20:01.the British and Irish Lions The snap general election -
:20:02. > :20:02.MPs are asked to approve the vote Sam Warburton of Wales will captain
:20:03. > :20:06.the British and Irish Lions for their tour of New
:20:07. > :20:08.Zealand this summer. Having resumed 5-4 down
:20:09. > :20:10.to qualifier Rory McLeod at the World Snooker
:20:11. > :20:12.Championship in Sheffield, the World number two Judd Trump has
:20:13. > :20:15.work to do to reach the second In France voters are preparing
:20:16. > :20:20.to go to the polls this weekend in the first
:20:21. > :20:23.round of the Presidential elections Our correspondent Thomas Fessy has
:20:24. > :20:27.been testing the political temperature in Amiens -
:20:28. > :20:30.once a left wing stronghold - now a city which has seen confidence
:20:31. > :20:38.in established politics ebb away. Here in Amiens, yet another factory
:20:39. > :20:42.about to close down. These workers feel that
:20:43. > :20:46.globalisation has passed them by. And they blame the
:20:47. > :20:54.political establishment. TRANSLATION: Parties
:20:55. > :20:56.of the right and left play Laws are being passed,
:20:57. > :21:01.but not implemented. None of the candidates talk
:21:02. > :21:09.about relocations, he says. Except for perhaps Marine Le Pen
:21:10. > :21:17.and Jean-Luc Melenchon, Like Anthony and Christine,
:21:18. > :21:23.many here look to the extremes. Four days to go before the vote
:21:24. > :21:27.and only two thirds of French voters Last minute deciders may prove
:21:28. > :21:37.the current polls wrong and traditional parties worry
:21:38. > :21:39.they may suffer from a potentially Evelyn has always voted
:21:40. > :21:43.for the Republicans, but this time around she tells me,
:21:44. > :21:47.trust is broken. TRANSLATION: I am not going to vote
:21:48. > :21:53.for people who have been Whether it is one side or the other,
:21:54. > :21:58.they always promised a lot Distrust of the political elite,
:21:59. > :22:05.job losses and calls for change, the stories from Amiens
:22:06. > :22:11.resonate across France. And will determine the direction
:22:12. > :22:25.the country decides to take. And we will have coverage of the
:22:26. > :22:27.first round results of the French election results this Sunday at
:22:28. > :22:29.6:30pm on the BBC News Channel. Almost two weeks ago President Trump
:22:30. > :22:35.announced he was sending an armada towards the Korean peninsula
:22:36. > :22:37.amid rising tensions with Pyongyang. But it's emerged that the American
:22:38. > :22:41.aircraft carrier - and its accompanying warships -
:22:42. > :22:42.were actually heading in the opposite direction -
:22:43. > :22:45.to Australia - to complete Rupert Wingfield Hayes
:22:46. > :22:50.has more details. The sight of the US vice president
:22:51. > :22:53.on board a nuclear powered aircraft Even more so when it's
:22:54. > :22:58.sitting in Japan. Was this an elaborate
:22:59. > :23:01.piece of theatre? Or a sign America is really
:23:02. > :23:04.preparing for action against North We will defeat any attack and meet
:23:05. > :23:10.any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming
:23:11. > :23:16.and effective American response. The United States of America
:23:17. > :23:23.will always seek peace, but under President Trump,
:23:24. > :23:25.the shield stands guard If President Trump is planning
:23:26. > :23:33.some sort of military action against North Korea,
:23:34. > :23:36.there is no sign of it here. This is the USS Ronald Reagan,
:23:37. > :23:39.the flagship of the But it won't be ready to leave this
:23:40. > :23:44.port in Japan for at Meantime, the other
:23:45. > :23:48.Carrier Battle Group President Trump said he sent into
:23:49. > :23:50.the Korean peninsula has been seen sailing
:23:51. > :23:51.in The Carl Vinson saga began
:23:52. > :24:05.on April the 8th when the US Pacific Fleet Commander ordered
:24:06. > :24:07.the aircraft carrier to leave Singapore and sail north
:24:08. > :24:09.to waters near Korea. Three days later, President
:24:10. > :24:11.Trump confirmed he was But instead, for a whole week
:24:12. > :24:16.Carl Vinson and its escorts sailed in the opposite direction,
:24:17. > :24:21.into the Indian Ocean. The US Navy now says
:24:22. > :24:23.the Carrier Battle Group is finally Back on board the Ronald Reagan,
:24:24. > :24:29.Vice President Mike Pence hinted its departure may
:24:30. > :24:34.also now be accelerated. Godspeed on the USS Reagan's
:24:35. > :24:37.eminent deployment. Figuring out what the Trump
:24:38. > :24:40.administration is planning for Rupert Wingfield Hayes, BBC News,
:24:41. > :24:47.at the Yokosuka naval Police have named a man they're
:24:48. > :24:56.searching for in connection with an acid attack
:24:57. > :24:58.at an East London nightclub on Monday in which twenty
:24:59. > :25:00.people were injured. Arthur Collins, who's 25
:25:01. > :25:02.and from Hertfordshire, is the boyfriend of the reality TV
:25:03. > :25:04.star, Ferne McCann. The Metropolitan police have
:25:05. > :25:08.released two pictures This image was taken of him
:25:09. > :25:13.at the Mangle E8 club in Dalston in East London where an acidic
:25:14. > :25:16.substance was sprayed Two men aged 24 and 29 have been
:25:17. > :25:25.transferred to a specialist burns hospital in Essex where they remain
:25:26. > :25:30.in a serious but stable condition. Mr Collins can be seen here
:25:31. > :25:34.with reality TV star Ferne McCann, who was not with him at the time
:25:35. > :25:46.of the incident. A spokeswoman for the star,
:25:47. > :25:46.who is best known for her appearances on The only Way is Essex
:25:47. > :25:48.and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out "Ferne wants to know the truth
:25:49. > :25:49.and urges Arthur to co-operate fully with the police and attend
:25:50. > :25:53.a police station immediately." Isabella Fraser, whose
:25:54. > :25:56.injuries can be seen here, was in the club with her sister Prue
:25:57. > :25:58.at the time. They are from Australia
:25:59. > :26:13.and spoke to a channel there. Someone just ran into me and had
:26:14. > :26:16.acid on their face. I felt my back, it felt as if someone had scratched
:26:17. > :26:21.me. It was stinging and I realised my shirt was stuck to my skin. I
:26:22. > :26:24.could not feel Isabella anywhere and I could feel my arm burning.
:26:25. > :26:26.Police say they have also visited an address in Hertfordshire
:26:27. > :26:28.where they arrested a 54-year-old man and 52-year-old
:26:29. > :26:31.woman on suspicion of cultivating cannabis.
:26:32. > :26:34.Victims who were enjoying a bank holiday night out say they have been
:26:35. > :26:37.left shaken by the nightclub incident and deeply shocked that
:26:38. > :26:48.It's going to be one of the sporting highlights of the summer,
:26:49. > :26:50.and this lunchtime coach Warren Gatland finally announced
:26:51. > :26:52.the squad for the British and Irish Lions rugby tour
:26:53. > :26:57.As expected former Wales captain Sam Warburton will lead the team
:26:58. > :27:09.Our correspondent Katie Gornall has the details.
:27:10. > :27:14.Warren Gatland said he only finalised the squad with this team
:27:15. > :27:18.last night and there was some lively debate over the selection. Today he
:27:19. > :27:23.announced the 41 players who will be taking on tour to New Zealand. As
:27:24. > :27:27.predicted the majority were English, 16 players. Not perhaps some of the
:27:28. > :27:30.names you might have expected. There's no room for England captain
:27:31. > :27:35.Dylan Hartley despite the fact that he has led England to their second
:27:36. > :27:39.successive Six Nations title. But prop Kyle Sinckler and Santa Ben
:27:40. > :27:43.Te'o are included despite the fact they only started one test for
:27:44. > :27:47.England between them. There are 12 Welsh players in there as well, even
:27:48. > :27:51.though they had something of an underwhelming Six Nations. Just two
:27:52. > :27:55.Scottish players even though Scotland came joint second in the
:27:56. > :27:58.Six Nations. So should be some debate around the composition of
:27:59. > :28:04.this British and Irish Lions squad. Of course there will be led by Sam
:28:05. > :28:07.Warburton, only the second man to lead successive Lions tours. Today
:28:08. > :28:14.he said he had every confidence in his team-mates. If someone had to
:28:15. > :28:19.ask me to put the squad in, the quality of players to pick from is
:28:20. > :28:24.incredible. So an immensely strong squad. Everyone a top-class player.
:28:25. > :28:29.So it gives myself as captain a massive amount of confidence going
:28:30. > :28:33.to New Zealand with that squad. Sam Warburton is currently out
:28:34. > :28:36.injured at the moment and is expected to be fit in time for the
:28:37. > :28:39.tour. You will need to be at his best because the challenge doesn't
:28:40. > :28:41.come much greater than playing New Zealand at the world number one side
:28:42. > :28:44.on their home turf. Parliament is being asked to approve
:28:45. > :28:49.the Prime Minister's call for a snap MPs will vote this afternoon
:28:50. > :28:55.on approving the early poll. Our assistant political
:28:56. > :29:13.editor, Norman Smith, Theresa May says it is in the
:29:14. > :29:17.national interest to strengthen our hand ahead of these crucial Brexit
:29:18. > :29:20.negotiations and she said there is now a window of opportunity before
:29:21. > :29:24.negotiations get underway in the autumn. She also suggested there was
:29:25. > :29:30.no general election now the danger would be that Brexit would be
:29:31. > :29:33.completed just as we got to the 2020 election which could significantly
:29:34. > :29:39.increase the leverage of EU negotiators. This is what she said.
:29:40. > :29:43.I have set out the divisions that have been becoming clear on this
:29:44. > :29:47.issue. They can and will be used against us. We're giving our hand in
:29:48. > :29:52.the negotiations to come and we must not let that happen. I believe at
:29:53. > :29:56.this moment of enormous national significance there should be unity
:29:57. > :29:59.here in Westminster and not division. That is why it is the
:30:00. > :30:04.right and responsible thing for all of us here today to vote for a
:30:05. > :30:08.general election. To make our respective cases to the country and
:30:09. > :30:12.then to respect the result and the mandate it provides to give the UK
:30:13. > :30:17.the strongest possible hand in the negotiations to come. In the last
:30:18. > :30:20.few minutes Jeremy Corbyn said that the Labour Party welcomed the
:30:21. > :30:24.election as it provides an opportunity to get rid of the
:30:25. > :30:27.Conservative government. Labour and the Liberal Democrats will vote for
:30:28. > :30:32.the election but you suspect it way -- it may well be through gritted
:30:33. > :30:35.teeth because Labour MPs will have looked the daunting opinion polls
:30:36. > :30:38.giving Theresa May a commanding lead, but they fear they cannot
:30:39. > :30:43.stand out against a general election or risk a charge that they are
:30:44. > :30:44.defying voters are saying. And they're simply too frightened to
:30:45. > :30:48.face the electorate. A small town in Canada,
:30:49. > :30:51.has become a sudden tourist spot thanks to a new visitor - one
:30:52. > :30:54.of the first icebergs of the season. It's nearly 50 meters tall and has
:30:55. > :30:57.become stranded in shallow water just off the Newfoundland coast,
:30:58. > :31:13.in an area known as iceberg alley. There was some frost this morning
:31:14. > :31:17.across the South East but since then it has turned into a lovely spring
:31:18. > :31:21.day. Another dry day in the south-east of England where it has
:31:22. > :31:27.been drying out for a good few months. But this is the rainfall for
:31:28. > :31:31.April so far compared to the average amounts. Significantly drier than
:31:32. > :31:34.normal. The only place that has seen more rainfall is part of the
:31:35. > :31:39.Highlands in Scotland where we had a lot of rain in just one day. This is
:31:40. > :31:44.Highland Scotland earlier on today, it should brighten up with some
:31:45. > :31:52.sunshine. But high pressure has been dominating the weather and is still
:31:53. > :31:53.around today keeping it tried just about everywhere. A lot of sunshine
:31:54. > :31:57.across the south of England and through the Midlands, a little hazy
:31:58. > :32:02.here at times. Temperatures responding to that sunshine at
:32:03. > :32:05.around 15 degrees. North Wales, the North of England cooler and
:32:06. > :32:10.cloudier. A little drizzle coming into Northern Ireland. The rest of
:32:11. > :32:14.Scotland brightening up and warming up so possibly into the mid-teens.
:32:15. > :32:19.Some late sunshine in some spots but slowly the cloud moves south
:32:20. > :32:23.overnight. Thick enough to give some drizzle here and there. Arriving in
:32:24. > :32:27.the south-east of England last of all and that could be some frost
:32:28. > :32:31.here overnight especially in the countryside. But typically
:32:32. > :32:36.temperatures are good few degrees higher under the cloud. Heading into
:32:37. > :32:42.tomorrow quite a cloudy day, perhaps a little drizzle but no great
:32:43. > :32:45.amounts of rainfall. The cloud should then in some places and we
:32:46. > :32:50.could see some sunshine. There will be a lot of cloud tomorrow but it is
:32:51. > :32:56.slightly warmer air so temperatures around 13, 14 degrees. We have
:32:57. > :33:01.brighter skies and generally dry weather across England and Wales
:33:02. > :33:06.again heading into Friday. It could be warmer with some sunshine, 18 or
:33:07. > :33:10.so degrees in the south-east. But some rain moving across Scotland
:33:11. > :33:17.towards Northern Ireland. But once again the weather front is very
:33:18. > :33:22.weak. It draws down for the first half of the weekend some colder air
:33:23. > :33:26.for Northern and eastern parts of the UK but that gets cut off by an
:33:27. > :33:31.area of low pressure for Sunday that will approach Scotland bringing some
:33:32. > :33:35.wet and windy weather later on, otherwise high pressure is in charge
:33:36. > :33:39.once again. So for most places the weekend will be dry, a little
:33:40. > :33:40.sunshine and temperatures around average for the time