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Tonight at Six - Theresa May sets the date when Britain | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
will officially begin the Brexit process. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Britain will become the first country to pull out of the EU - | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
the 29th of March will mark a historic first step. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
We're going to be out there, negotiating hard, delivering | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
We'll be looking at how the negotiations will unfold. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Did Russia help Donald Trump get to the White House? | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
The FBI confirms the extent of its inquiry. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Investigating the nature of any links, between individuals | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
associated with the Trump campaign, and the Russian government. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
M becomes the latest top brand to pull its adverts from Google | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
after they appear next to extremist websites. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Underage drinking in Northern Ireland - children as young | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
# Don't know where, don't know when # | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
Happy Birthday Dame Vera Lynn - tributes to the forces' | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Jermain Defoe, striker of relegation-threatened Sunderland, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
says he must play Premier League football to stand a chance | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:21. | :01:57. | |
Next week, on the 29th of March to be precise, | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Britain will begin the official process of leaving | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Theresa May will send a letter to the EU that will trigger up | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
to two years of talks on the terms of Britain's exit. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Ministers say it will be the most important | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
No country has ever taken this step before and, | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
as Vicki Young reports, much of what happens next | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
She is stepping into Britain's most important negotiation for a | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
generation. During a trip to Swansea, Theresa May said her aims | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
were clear. Those include getting a good free trade deal and includes | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
issues like continuing working together on security at the core of | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
what we are doing. We are going to be out there negotiating hard, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
delivering on what the British people voted for. In Brussels they | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
have been waiting for Britain to make its move. We are ready to begin | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
negotiations. The president of the European Council tweeted he would | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
respond swiftly next week with negotiating guidelines for the 27 | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
countries staying in the EU. What is the timetable ahead? The formal | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
process of triggering Article 50 will happen on March the 29th when | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the Prime Minister sends a letter to Donald Tusk. Talks will start in May | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
or June and the ghost hitters have up to two years to try a deal. | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
Labour says the Prime Minister has failed to finalise any certainty of | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
her plan. Across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, there is no unity | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
of purpose. That means the prospect of crashing out of the EU without a | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
deal is highly likely and that will be destructive for the economy. And | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
turning our back on the trade area is a mistake. The very wealthy will | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
be OK, because sadly they always are. But everybody else will | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
struggle because they have decided to take us out of the European | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
market, even though nobody was asked that in the referendum. Theresa May | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
has a mammoth task, and negotiating a deal that doesn't punish the UK. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Sorting out a trade deal that won't harm British businesses. And here in | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Parliament, numerous laws will be needed to set up new systems | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
covering everything from immigration to fishing and farming. Ministers | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
insist they are preparing for all eventualities, including leaving the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
EU with no deal, but they are optimistic about talks. It is in the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
interest, not just of the UK but the continuing EU that there should be a | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
sensible resolution of our withdrawal. This Vogue magazine | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
fashion shoot it shows a pensive Theresa May. She will embark on a | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
much tougher assignment. Our Europe Editor Katya | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Adler is in Brussels. We have just seen what it means for | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
Britain, I wonder what it means in Brussels? The mood here today has | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
been very much a relief laced with regret. EU officials here and other | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
EU countries really don't want the UK to lead. But since they have | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
known but the UK intends to do for a long time, they have just wanted | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Britain to get on with it. Now they have a date where the process will | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
start. As one source told me tonight, they are hoping they can | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
downgrade Brexit from the EU issue, the just another EU issue they have | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
to deal with. Brussels is grateful Theresa May didn't trigger Article | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
50 this week just ahead of the EU is celebrating its 60th birthday on | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Saturday. The mood there will be resolutely positive and upbeat, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
looking towards the future rather than the fact one of its key members | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
is leaving. But Brexit, of course, remains a big deal for the EU. There | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
are worries that if Brexit goes well for the UK, that other countries | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
might be tempted to walk out. But don't expect negotiations to go far, | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
not until autumn. The EU wants to get elections in Germany and France | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
out of the way first. Thank you very much. | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
It is the question that has hung over Donald Trump's | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Did Russia help his election campaign and did anyone on his team | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Today, in a rare and extraordinary move, | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
the FBI has confirmed they are investigating | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
Intelligence chiefs have been testifying in front of US | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
politicians and they've also said there is no evidence that | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
Britain's GCHQ was involved in a wiretap on Donald Trump, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
contradicting a claim made by the president. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel was watching. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
The Kremlin has cast a long shadow over American politics in the last | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
it. What is more less accepted, is that Russian intelligence hacked | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
computers belonging to the Democratic party before the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
election. Before that, was there collusion before the Trump campaign | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
and Moscow? The president said that is fake news. Then there's the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
allegation that Barack Obama tapped the phones in Trump Tower before the | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
election, perhaps using British agents from GCHQ. Big questions for | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
a big man. But six foot eight, James Komi stands head and shoulders above | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
all around him. Would he stick his neck out today at this hearing? The | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
answer, yes. The FBI is investigating the Russian | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. And | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
that includes investigating the nature of any links of any | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
government, and whether there was any coordination between the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
campaign and Russia's efforts. On the detail of the investigation into | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Russian collusion is, he would not be drawn. But what about the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
President's claims, that his predecessor had wiretapped Trump | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Tower? Here, he was more forthcoming. With respect to the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
President's tweets at alleged wiretapping of him by the prior | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
administration, I have no evidence to support those tweets. So | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
President Obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
anyone? No president could. The president accused Mr Obama and the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
FBI in engaging in McCarthyism, where you engaged in McCarthyism? I | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
try to hard not engage in any isms of any kind. Then they asked him to | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
answer questions about British involvement. Again, the response is | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
unequivocal. Did you request your counterpart in GCHQ should wiretap | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Mr probably half of Mr Obama? No sir, and nor would I, that would be | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
against the agreement that has been in place for decades. The | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
President's said they wiretapped him and it has been called nonsense, do | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
you agree? Yes, sir. There is a baseless claim that the British | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
participated in a conspiracy against him? It does frustrate an ally of | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
ours, but the resolution should be strong enough to deal with this. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
This has been uncomfortable for Donald Trump. But there may be | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
solace, the enquiry could take months or years to be completed and | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
in the meantime, he will seek to move the conversation on to move the | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
conversation onto other subjects. John joined us from Washington. How | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
damaging is this for Donald Trump? Any way you cut it, this was our | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
core blimey moment. The idea that the FBI, the principal law in the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
agency is announcing it is investigating whether the Trump | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
campaign acted in collusion with the Russian government to subvert the | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
outcome of the election is extraordinary enough. Not only that, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
the FBI director goes on to say that what the president tweeted 16 days | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
ago was incorrect, there was no wiretapping by Obama and there was | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
no help from GCHQ. That leaves Donald Trump in an exposed position. | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
He will say it is fake news, there was no collusion with the Russians. | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
He is saying that before the FBI has reached its conclusion, like he | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
wants to shape the field of play before that. He has announced he is | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
to become a grandfather again, that might also take attention away. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Thank you. Google has publicly apologised | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
after online ads from some of Britain's best known brands | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
appeared next to extremist material. Today Marks Spencer has become | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
the latest company to pull online RBS, Lloyds and HSBC announced | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
similar moves over the weekend. Google has promised to do more | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
to address the issue, as our Media Editor | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Amol Rajan reports. Millions of videos are uploaded | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
onto YouTube everyday. But they include material such | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
as Jihadi propaganda and footage And yet these hate filled videos | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
attract advertising, Here, a radical Islamist preacher | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
is above a holiday advert. And here, fascists are twinned | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
with an advert for a BBC programme. An anti-Semitic video, | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
but the advert promotes Today, YouTube's owner | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Google apologised. You have probably read stories | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
recently about some brands appearing against content that they didn't | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
want to and in the Spotlight So we'll start by saying | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
sorry, we apologise. When anything like that happens | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
we don't want it to happen, you don't want it to happen | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
and we take responsibility for it. A growing list of household names | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
from banks to media organisations have said they will stop advertising | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
with Google unless Broadcaster Channel 4 is one | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
of those who paid Google But now it is angry at what has been | :12:13. | :12:29. | |
happening. We specifically asked our adverts not appear alongside | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
offensive videos, yet that is exactly what's happened. It is | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
damaging for a brand like Channel 4 to have its adverts alongside | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
neo-Nazi and homophobic videos, especially if, as it turns out the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
way Google operate their systems, with funding the organisations that | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
made the videos in the first place. Advertisers like Channel 4 have | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
helped to make Google one of the most powerful companies in the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
world. Now they are saying, with that power comes responsibility. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Google has always said it is a technology company and not a media | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
company. But some of its advertisers are now disagreeing. One of the most | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
influential men in advertising says he's talking to his clients and the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Google to find a solution. They have to make sure there is a white of | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
sites where the advertising can go and a blacklist of where they cannot | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
go. That is what we have to work on. I think we will get to a solution, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
there is too much at stake. Google says it is taking action but until | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
they break the link between advertising and hate online, | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Internet giants face a level of scrutiny they are not used to. The | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
backlash against big tech has begun. Home care companies have warned | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
of a funding crisis that means they can't recruit or retain staff | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
to meet growing demand. The BBC's Panorama programme | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
discovered 95 councils had Care firms have cancelled contracts | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
with nearly 100 councils. Research commissioned | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
for the programme found one in four Nearly one in four companies | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
are at risk of insolvency - with 69 closing in the past | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
three months alone. Our Wales Correspondent | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
Sian Lloyd reports. 82-year-old Shirley is stuck in | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
hospital. She has been well enough to leave since January, but the | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
package that will support her at home has been delayed. We are | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
finding it hard because obviously we want the best care we can get for | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
her. You think, there is loads out there, it should be easy, but it | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
isn't. Across the UK, 6500 Acute Hospital beds are blocked by people | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
well enough to leave. In many cases, due to the nationwide shortage of | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
care workers. Carers like Amanda, on zero hours contract and earns just | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
above the living wage. She struggles to make ends meet. I did look into | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
buying a house four years ago, but because I didn't have a contract, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
they wouldn't let me buy a house, or anything like that. It is hard. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Amanda works a private care company and it cannot recruit enough staff | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
to meet the man. Its owner says what some councils pay to provide care, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
often doesn't cover costs and in Conway, he has handed the contract | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
back to the local council. We didn't think we could provide this level of | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
service for that amount of money Conwy were offering. We were very | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
reluctant to leave, but we had to. Conwy Council says it is committed | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
to supporting vulnerable people in the community despite the | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
challenges. It is not alone. A Freedom of Information Act concluded | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
212 councils revealed almost 100 have had contracts handed back, | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
including in Liverpool. The leader of adult social services says it is | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
having an impact and despite new money coming their way following the | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
budget, he says it is too little, too late. I have been giving a | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
sticking plaster. If the system doesn't change, I don't think we | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
will be able to maintain the service is the way they are. Research | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
commission for panorama suggest one in four of the UK's 2000 care | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
companies are at risk of insolvency. The UK Government declined to be | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
interviewed, but in a statement said it would be bringing forward | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
proposals this year to make sure a more financially social care system. | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
Panorama: Britain's Home Care Crisis, is on BBC | :16:38. | :16:38. | |
except for viewers in Wales, who can see the investigation on | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
will officially begin the Brexit process next week, on 29th March. | :16:43. | :16:55. | |
And still to come - what better place to celebrate | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
England rugby union head coach Eddie Jones says | :17:00. | :17:12. | |
to peak at the World Cup in 2019 despite missing out on the Six | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Police in Northern Ireland are considering reintroducing sting | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
operations to ensure off-licences are not selling to | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
It follows figures showing they were seizing alcohol off | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
underage drinkers at an average of one every hour. | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
In some cases, the children involved are as young as 10. | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
Parents and community groups are calling for more to be done | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
to tackle what they call a culture of drinking among young people. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
We've disguised the identities of the underage drinkers | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Some teenagers see the weekends as a time for drinking. | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
In this County Down park, there are young people clearly | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
And moments when some seem not in total control. | :18:05. | :18:18. | |
How much have you had to drink tonight? | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
And how much would you normally have to drink at the weekend? | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
And are you worried about being out and drunk in the street? | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
D'you want to know what I worry about? | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
But in the last six weeks, volunteers from a community group | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
here have had to call an ambulance for a teenager who was | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
And they're concerned about what they see | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
We have, "Come to Ireland and enjoy the drink and the craic." | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
Of course there's a fun and positive side of that, | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
but when it filters down through to our children, | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
And 20 or 40 years ago, it was 16-year-olds who'd be drinking. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
And that's a deep concern for parents. | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
The kids nowadays would buy a bottle of vodka, and drink the vodka raw. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
This mother is trying to get her 14-year-old help | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
We're not identifying her to protect her daughter. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
I went to pick her up and she was sitting in the rain, | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
on the grass, on the kerb at the side of an estate, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
She was unable to string a sentence together, | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
unable to stand herself, and for a kid of that age to be | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
in that kind of a state, anything could happen to her. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
How much do you think your daughter was drinking | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
The last night, I know she did drink three litres of cider. | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
Belfast street pastors are volunteers who help people | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
who appear vulnerable on the streets. | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
And the police in Northern Ireland have asked them to extend | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
their hours, to watch out for children as well as adults. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Normally we're out late at night, but they'd like us to be | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
involved earlier evening, and again, get alongside the kids. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
They are meeting in sometimes groups of 30, 40 more. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
They are meeting in sometimes groups of 30, 40 or more. | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Among the people that the police have found with alcohol have been | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
In one case, they seized 30 cans or bottles of cider | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
And some teenagers admit that for them, alcohol is part | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
There's nothing about this place for us to do. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
That's why we go and drink and do whatever we have to do. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Getting underaged drinkers off the streets is a challenge. | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
And offering alternatives to alcohol is only part of the answer. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
Labour's deputy leader says the future existence | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
of the party is under threat because of what he describes | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
as a secret plot by hard-left factions to take over the party. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Tom Watson accused the campaign group Momentum, which helped | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
Jeremy Corbyn become leader, of trying to increase its influence | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
by obtaining direct funding from the Unite union, | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
Here's our deputy political editor, John Pienaar. | :21:24. | :21:36. | |
His report includes flash photography. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
He keeps saying he loves being leader. | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Morning, Mr Corbyn - is there a plot to take | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Life's tough for Labour on a good day, and this was a bad one. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
As his team gathered together, the party tore itself apart, | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
and his deputy condemned what he called a new and | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Of a secret plan by the hard left to take control of the Labour Party, | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
using the members' money from Unite the union | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
It threatens our very existence as an electoral force | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
The danger he named was Momentum, or its leadership, | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
and a leading light, Jon Lansman, was secretly recorded guiding | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
members to change Labour's rules to help another left-winger | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
succeed Jeremy Corbyn, to pick left-wing | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
So, we may well face an election this year, | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
and that will disrupt some of our plans, but we've | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
still got to plan what we need to do next. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
And what we need to do next is a number of things to change | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
This is the leader's most powerful ally, running | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
Can Len McCluskey win and help the left tighten its political grip? | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
He has chosen to use his members' money to take control | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
of the Labour Party, rather than develop policies | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
and a manifesto that are attractive to millions of voters. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
This high-level counterattack from Mr Corbyn's right-hand | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
In the week that the ballot papers go out for the Unite election, | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
I think this is about Tom's interference in | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Well, obviously he wants to install a candidate of his choice, | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Labour's identity is at stake, in a bitter struggle, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
The shadow cabinet had what was called a "robust discussion" - | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
there will be plenty more of those, and whether the election comes | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
in 2020, as Theresa May insists, or sooner, Labour has never looked | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of the... | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
Unite denies planning to back his most militant allies, | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
So, this fight will go on as long as he's leader, | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
and may just continue when he's gone. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Dame Vera Lynn, Britain's Forces sweetheart, is celebrating her | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Veterans have been taking part in events at the White Cliffs | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
of Dover in honour of the occasion, with a giant image of the singer | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is in Dover. | :24:15. | :24:28. | |
It is hard to believe that a place as wet and windy as this tonight | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
could have been the inspiration for such a beautiful song by Dame Vera | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
Lynn, The White Cliffs Of Dover. It is also the place where friends of | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
hers gathered to celebrate her 100th birthday. Speaking from her home in | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Sussex, Dame Vera Lynn said today that she was simply happy to be | :24:52. | :24:52. | |
remembered. The face of defiance, | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
blended with the voice of hope. 100 years of Dame Vera Lynn, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
rejected onto the last piece of England troops saw | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
as they went to battle. Her heartbreaking lullabies | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
became the soundtrack # Don't know where, | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
don't know when... She soothed fears | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
and stiffened resolve. But Dame Vera can still | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
recall an early brush When she heard me sing, she says, | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
"No, I can't train that voice. So I said, "Well, thank you very | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
much, madam," and left. Today, in Dover, above the cliffs | :25:40. | :25:52. | |
that inspired one of her greatest songs, veterans and friends came | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
to celebrate Dame Vera's milestone birthday, | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
and recall her life-affirming sound. Her voice came through clear, and | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
with it was the story as she sang. You listen to Vera's voice | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
when you're in a jungle clearing, it takes that fright away by making | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
you think of other parts in life, | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
and your hopes for the future. The bracing winds of the Channel | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
didn't deter a salute above the cliffs Dame Vera | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
sang into immortality. A grand gesture for a grand | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
dame, still on a journey that she continues to share | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
with a grateful nation. I hope you haven't packed away your | :26:41. | :27:04. | |
winter woollies just yet, because it is getting colder. This is the | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
weather we are moving into right now. Some sunshine, but then the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
showers, rattling in on the cold wind. Cold air is coming down from | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
the north-west, bringing in a rash of showers, chasing away their brain | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
that we had earlier on. It has just cleared away from Dover. Clearer | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
skies following, showers continuing overnight. As the air gets colder | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
and colder, so the showers turn more and more wintry, more and more snow, | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
particularly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. With those | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
temperatures, we don't just have to worry about snow, we have to worry | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
about icy conditions as well. Something to think about in the | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
rush-hour tomorrow morning in the Scotland, and perhaps not only over | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
the higher routes. The snow over the lower levels will tend to melt. | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
Whilst many eastern areas start dry and sunny but cold, anywhere could | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
catch a shower from late morning onwards. Most of them out towards | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
the west. And gusty winds taking the edge off those poor temperatures. | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
Something to bear in mind tomorrow evening, some wet weather developing | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
across the south-west of England. Overnight, bumping up into that | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
really cold air in Scotland, so we could get some more snow in southern | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
Scotland and northern England for the rush-hour. We keep some wet | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
weather going down the eastern side of England throughout Wednesday. | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
Sunshine and showers following on. So this is what we have got over the | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
next few days, a cold winter sky. Things changing, with high pressure | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
building by the end of the week. It will be dry with more sunshine, but | :28:48. | :28:48. | |
still some chilly nights. Our main headline... Theresa May | :28:49. | :28:58. | |
says Britain will officially begin the Brexit process next week, on the | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
29th of March. That's all from the BBC's news at six. We now join our | :29:05. | :29:09. |