0:00:08 > 0:00:11Tonight at Six - The sacking of the deputy prime minister -
0:00:11 > 0:00:13anger among some conservative MPs about the role of police
0:00:13 > 0:00:21officers in the affair.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25-- former police officers.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26Damian Green admits making misleading statements
0:00:26 > 0:00:28about pornography allegations - but now Theresa May joins
0:00:28 > 0:00:30MPs concerns and calls for an investigation.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33I share the concerns that have been raised across the political
0:00:33 > 0:00:35spectrum about comments that were made by a former police officer
0:00:35 > 0:00:38and I expect that issue to be properly investigated.
0:00:38 > 0:00:46We'll be asking where this leaves the PM's authority.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Also tonight:
0:00:49 > 0:00:51The plight of Yemen's children - it's the worst humanitarian
0:00:51 > 0:00:56crisis in the world - we have a special report.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00The British citizen jailed in Iran - cautious optimism after
0:01:00 > 0:01:03the government there says she's now eligible for early release.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Apple admits it deliberately slows down older iphones -
0:01:05 > 0:01:08but they says it's not to make you buy a new one.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09# We're gonna rise up!
0:01:09 > 0:01:11# Time to take a shot!
0:01:11 > 0:01:12# We're gonna rise up!
0:01:12 > 0:01:14# Time to take a shot!
0:01:14 > 0:01:17It took Broadway by storm - now the hip-hop musical Hamilton
0:01:17 > 0:01:23is already sold out over here - we talk to the musical director.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31We will have Sportsday on the BBC News channel with all of the latest
0:01:31 > 0:01:35reports, results, interviews, and features from the BBC sports Centre.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
0:01:56 > 0:02:02Theresa May has joined several Tory MPs who've been questioning
0:02:02 > 0:02:04the conduct of the retired police officers involved in pornography
0:02:04 > 0:02:07allegations against her deputy, Damian Green.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10They revealed that pornographic images had been found on his Commons
0:02:10 > 0:02:12computer nine years ago.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Last night the prime minister sacked Mr Green after he admitted making
0:02:14 > 0:02:18misleading statements about the affair -
0:02:18 > 0:02:21though he denies viewing or downloading the images.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24As John Pienaar reports the loss of Damian Green adds yet another
0:02:24 > 0:02:26challenge to what's been a year of political turmoil
0:02:26 > 0:02:35for the prime minister.
0:02:35 > 0:02:41Sacked, not for a crime, but for a cover-up. Have you let the Prime
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Minister down, Mr Green? He still denies behaving inappropriately
0:02:45 > 0:02:48towards a young journalist. Denies viewing pornography in the office
0:02:48 > 0:02:56years before. But when he denied not knowing anything about -- but when
0:02:56 > 0:03:00he denied knowing anything about the pornography that was the end.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Theresa May believes in duty, even if it means sacking her most trusted
0:03:04 > 0:03:08friend and Cabinet, even if some MPs believe that former policeman who
0:03:08 > 0:03:13found the pornography betrayed their duty by going public. And if they
0:03:13 > 0:03:17did she says they should answer for it.I have shared the concerns that
0:03:17 > 0:03:20have been raised across the political spectrum about comments
0:03:20 > 0:03:27that were made by a former police officer. I expect that issue to be
0:03:27 > 0:03:32properly investigated, to be taken seriously, and to be properly looked
0:03:32 > 0:03:34at. But Damian Green's fate is settled.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Today he tweeted good wishes to sympathisers and he said:
0:03:46 > 0:03:50This was the fateful moment caught on camera nine years ago, police
0:03:50 > 0:03:55investigating Home Office leaks, raiding Mr Green's office. The raid
0:03:55 > 0:03:59was criticised but officers found pornography. When that came out Mr
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Green called it a lie, a smear. The command at the time, Bob quick, is
0:04:04 > 0:04:08demanding a retraction, consulting his lawyers, but London's police
0:04:08 > 0:04:14chief has now given the disclosures to the information Commissioner.
0:04:14 > 0:04:19We are disappointed to see that it appears that former colleagues have
0:04:19 > 0:04:27put into the public domain, by the media, material they had access to
0:04:27 > 0:04:31as part of a confidential investigation.Tory MPs generally
0:04:31 > 0:04:36accept Damian Green had to go like it or not. And some do not like the
0:04:36 > 0:04:42way former police officers paid. They should be investigating for
0:04:42 > 0:04:49this. -- officers behaved. It is wrong. How can any of us trust
0:04:49 > 0:04:54giving information to the police if senior officers leapt in this way?
0:04:54 > 0:04:59David Davis warned Downing Street three weeks ago not to punish Damian
0:04:59 > 0:05:05Green on former officers with a grudge but he has accepted the
0:05:05 > 0:05:08sacking as well. The other allegations, a young journalist,
0:05:08 > 0:05:14Kate Maltby, complained about inappropriate behaviour. The enquiry
0:05:14 > 0:05:18could not reach a verdict, however. On goes Theresa May come her old
0:05:18 > 0:05:22friend and colleague missing from the picture, she needs allies at
0:05:22 > 0:05:27home and in Europe and she has lost the closest one at all. -- on goes
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Theresa May, her old friend and colleague.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30John joins me now from Westminster.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35We seem to be going from one crisis to the other, where does this one
0:05:35 > 0:05:38leaf Theresa May? No prior Minister Camp Nou such a close colleague
0:05:38 > 0:05:43without feeling a loss. Damian Green will be missed badly by Theresa May.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Problems ahead, no majority in the Commons, Brexit to deal with, a
0:05:47 > 0:05:51cabinet with differing ideas on post-Brexit Britain around the
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Cabinet table. Finding a replacement with the same authority and loyalty.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58With no ambition for the top job. With the ability to reach across
0:05:58 > 0:06:02differences of opinion. That would be easy and it may turn out to be
0:06:02 > 0:06:06impossible. Theresa May will hope to move on from this. Not just the loss
0:06:06 > 0:06:09of Damian Green but the whole story about misconduct at Westminster. And
0:06:09 > 0:06:16tonight we have learned that a junior minister has been cleared of
0:06:16 > 0:06:19misconduct. He was accused of using inappropriate language towards a
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Parliamentary Secretary and at one point, asking her to go and buy six
0:06:23 > 0:06:27toys. He has apologised. The pressure for higher standards at
0:06:27 > 0:06:35Westminster, that will not stop. But big problem still lie ahead. -- sex
0:06:35 > 0:06:38toys.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Thanks very much.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47The International Red Cross says the total number of suspected
0:06:47 > 0:06:49cholera cases in Yemen has reached one million.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51This is yet more evidence of the humanitarian crisis
0:06:51 > 0:06:54in a country caught up in a brutal war, where more than eighty per cent
0:06:54 > 0:06:56of the population lack food, clean water and access
0:06:56 > 0:06:58to health care.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Our correspondent Nawal Al-Maghafi has been to the capital Sanaa -
0:07:00 > 0:07:03and sent this report - parts of which you may
0:07:03 > 0:07:05find distressing.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09CRYING.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10This is 11-month-old Abdillahi, exhausted
0:07:10 > 0:07:18and beyond despair, he's just one of Yemen's starving children.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20With his belly swollen from malnutrition, there are 400,000
0:07:20 > 0:07:28other infants suffering just like him.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Once confined to rural areas, the threat of famine has now
0:07:31 > 0:07:32reached the capital.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Abdillahi's mother Jamilla sits helpless at his side,
0:07:34 > 0:07:36she's already lost two other children to hunger.
0:07:36 > 0:07:42She tells me, he's all she has to live for.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44TRANSLATION:My husband's salary used to provide for us,
0:07:44 > 0:07:50it would run out at the end of the month, but he would get paid.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Everything was OK.
0:07:51 > 0:07:57Now, all we eat is bread and tea.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59All the infants here were born into this war,
0:07:59 > 0:08:00now in its third year.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05From birth, it's a struggle to survive.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Eight-year-old Allah has just arrived and he's just been
0:08:07 > 0:08:13given his first proper meal in days.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16He's from a family with a well-paid government job, but for over a year
0:08:16 > 0:08:20anyone working for the state hasn't received a salary.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22So the family quickly fell into poverty.
0:08:22 > 0:08:29Too ashamed to ask their own family for help, they struggled in silence.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31TRANSLATION:I break one piece of bread between two children
0:08:31 > 0:08:39and another is shared out between the rest.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40That's all we have.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43At night they ask for dinner, they cry, but I can't give them
0:08:43 > 0:08:45anything, so they sleep hungry.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50It's really heartbreaking.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53In Yemeni culture it's shameful to go out and ask for help and I'm
0:08:53 > 0:08:56shocked that Jamilla waited until her son was in this state
0:08:56 > 0:09:04before she asked her sister for money to bring him here.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07It makes me wonder how many more people are starving in their homes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10And here's the incredible thing, whilst millions of people
0:09:10 > 0:09:12are starving across the country, supermarket shelves in the capital
0:09:12 > 0:09:15are stocked high with food, but ordinary Yemenis can no longer
0:09:15 > 0:09:16afford to shop here.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20A once busy store, now empty.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Much of the problem lies here, the Saudi-led coalition has blocked
0:09:23 > 0:09:26all commercial imports from entering Yemen's main ports, which has
0:09:26 > 0:09:28driven up the prices, and the Houthi rebels are impeding
0:09:28 > 0:09:38the distribution of what little aid is being delivered.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40The UN says Yemen is the world's biggest humanitarian crisis,
0:09:40 > 0:09:42but according to its resident co-ordinator the international
0:09:42 > 0:09:48community is failing Yemen.
0:09:48 > 0:09:54There is a glaring lack of pressure beyond the words.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57There's been words coming out of the US, there is words coming out
0:09:57 > 0:10:00of Europe and words coming out of the UK and everywhere else,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02but it's not translating into a pushback on this action
0:10:02 > 0:10:04and the only solution is political.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07So the political people have to get around this table and take a real
0:10:07 > 0:10:10full-hearted approach at fixing this.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13With a lack of international diplomacy and the war at a stalemate
0:10:13 > 0:10:15those at the brunt of the suffering are the vulnerable.
0:10:15 > 0:10:21Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News, Sanaa.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Lawyers for the British-Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe -
0:10:23 > 0:10:26who's in jail in Iran - say she's been told by the Iranian
0:10:26 > 0:10:28authorities that she's now eligible for early release.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held for 18 months on charges of working
0:10:31 > 0:10:40against the Iranian regime.
0:10:40 > 0:10:46Our correspondent Caroline Hawley is with me now.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51What does this state of -- change of status mean?
0:10:51 > 0:10:56You can be eligible for early release. I've just spoken to her
0:10:56 > 0:10:59husband, Richard, who has been campaigning for her release. He says
0:10:59 > 0:11:03everything is going in the right direction. He said the tide turned
0:11:03 > 0:11:09when Boris Johnson went to Iran earlier this month. He pushed for
0:11:09 > 0:11:13the release. He was heavily criticised for complicating her case
0:11:13 > 0:11:18when he said she was training journalist when in fact she had been
0:11:18 > 0:11:22there on holiday with her daughter. Since his visit there have been a
0:11:22 > 0:11:28number of positive signals. More phone calls from Mrs
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Zaghari-Ratcliffe to her husband and more family visits. And apparently
0:11:32 > 0:11:36her lawyer checked on the computer system of the Arabian judiciary and
0:11:36 > 0:11:39found out she was eligible for early release and he was excited and he
0:11:39 > 0:11:47told Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe about this. -- Iranians judiciary. There
0:11:47 > 0:11:50have been lots of ups and downs in this case. The family are more
0:11:50 > 0:11:57positive. But they won't celebrate until she was on a plane -- is on a
0:11:57 > 0:12:00plane home.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02The retailer, Toys R Us, has agreed a deal to stop
0:12:02 > 0:12:03the whole group closing down.
0:12:03 > 0:12:08Creditors have agreed to a restructuring plan
0:12:08 > 0:12:09which will secure 2,500 jobs.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12But a further 800 jobs are set to be lost and there'll be
0:12:12 > 0:12:13some store closures.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16The people of Catalonia in northeast Spain have been voting
0:12:16 > 0:12:17in regional elections to choose a new parliament.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19The central government in Madrid dissolved the previous
0:12:19 > 0:12:22administration after it organised an illegal referendum in October
0:12:22 > 0:12:25and declared independence.
0:12:25 > 0:12:31Our correspondent, James Reynolds, is live in Barcelona for us.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36How likely is this to end the political crisis?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Not many people here think it will end, simply because the divisions
0:12:40 > 0:12:46are too deep to vanish with a single vote. But I think this election will
0:12:46 > 0:12:50answer an important question, which side has greater numbers,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53pro-independent or pro-Spain?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55After months of crisis, the people of Catalonia,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58all of them, got to vote.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00No one, it seems, wanted to miss out.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02In October's disputed independence referendum this polling station
0:13:02 > 0:13:05was a scene of chaos, the Spanish police used force
0:13:05 > 0:13:10to confiscate ballot boxes.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12By contrast, this election is organised and orderly, everyone
0:13:12 > 0:13:14is getting the chance to vote.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16For some, this is a chance to get even.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Spanish police violence in October has turned Marta
0:13:18 > 0:13:28into a pro-independence voter.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32TRANSLATION:I want them to listen to us out there in the world.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35For them to listen to us in Spain, in Europe.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38For them to know that the Catalan people and Catalan sentiment exists
0:13:38 > 0:13:39and that we've been forgotten.
0:13:39 > 0:13:44We've been treated like nobodies.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46In Barcelona's old city, families queued to vote.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48These three sisters split two to one in favour
0:13:48 > 0:13:52of pro-independence parties.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54"We haven't tried to convince one another", Amena admitted.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59Retired maintenance man Jordi wants Catalonia to become a republic.
0:13:59 > 0:14:07Raquel said that she was voting for freedom from Spain.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Marta says she wants deposed pro-independence leader
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Carles Puigdemont to return.
0:14:12 > 0:14:22But in working-class districts, many voters take the opposite view.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27TRANSLATION:If they want independence, they should look
0:14:27 > 0:14:29for an island and go there, there is Spain.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Catalonia is Spain.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33TRANSLATION:I want to see a government that is
0:14:33 > 0:14:36anti-independence because I believe that if the others win our
0:14:36 > 0:14:40economy will get worse.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42This election may reveal Catalonia's divisions,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44but it won't bring them to an end.
0:14:44 > 0:14:56James Reynolds, BBC News, Barcelona.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00The time is coming up to quarter past six.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01Our top story this evening...
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Damian Green admits making misleading statements
0:15:03 > 0:15:08about pornography allegations but now Theresa May joins
0:15:08 > 0:15:09MPs' concerns and calls for an investigation.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11And still to come...
0:15:11 > 0:15:15The host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be Birmingham!
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Celebrations in the Midlands - we'll hear from the bid team
0:15:17 > 0:15:23on what they're calling an early Christmas present.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Coming up in the next 15 minutes on Sportsday...
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Swansea's search for a new manager won't include Ryan Giggs -
0:15:29 > 0:15:32the Manchester United legend has ruled himself out of the running.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49Now, homelessness blights the lives of tens of thousands of people
0:15:49 > 0:15:54in Britain and only yesterday MPs called it a national crisis.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Some of those affected so called 'sofa surfers' who move from friend
0:15:57 > 0:15:59to friend to keep off the streets don't even register
0:15:59 > 0:16:00in the official statistics.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02So BBC News has commissioned a poll to discover
0:16:02 > 0:16:08the scale of the problem, particularly among young people.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11It found that almost one in ten 16 to 25-year-olds questioned sofa
0:16:11 > 0:16:12surfed for over a month and
0:16:12 > 0:16:18that more than a quarter have done it for over a week.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan has this special
0:16:20 > 0:16:28report on Britain's young hidden homeless.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Time passes slowly if you are homeless. For some, most days are
0:16:33 > 0:16:37spent waiting and hoping, waiting for the phone to ring, hoping they
0:16:37 > 0:16:44will have a bed tonight.Is there anything else we could look at
0:16:44 > 0:16:51possibly? All right, thank you.Sun 's local council paid for a room for
0:16:51 > 0:16:56a few nights as temperatures fell below zero, but with nights becoming
0:16:56 > 0:17:03warmer his prospects have called. I'm ringing up regarding the room.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07With the council withdrawing support, the 23-year-old who has
0:17:07 > 0:17:10spent time in prison and suffers from mental health problems
0:17:10 > 0:17:14desperately searches for somewhere to sleep.Don't know whether I'm
0:17:14 > 0:17:20coming or going, I don't know where I will sleep from night tonight. I
0:17:20 > 0:17:24might find somewhere I can stay for a few days, then after that it's
0:17:24 > 0:17:31doing it all again.Unlike some, Ian knows he has a roof over his head
0:17:31 > 0:17:36tonight and, thanks to this charity, food in his cupboards. Three weeks
0:17:36 > 0:17:41in a friend's flat means sofa surfing is over for now. His next
0:17:41 > 0:17:47task is to get a job but it won't be easy.Looking for a job with no
0:17:47 > 0:17:53address is really difficult. Not only that, with sofa surfing it is
0:17:53 > 0:17:58difficult to keep your hygiene up, looking smart, it is difficult.Sofa
0:17:58 > 0:18:04surfing mainly affects young men and as a poll suggests falling out with
0:18:04 > 0:18:11parents is the main reason.Our main drive is to get people back in touch
0:18:11 > 0:18:15with their families, that would be our first port of call to go back to
0:18:15 > 0:18:19parents and say it's not that easy, they won't get a flat straightaway,
0:18:19 > 0:18:24your child could be left on the streets and negotiate with them.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Moving back in with his mother was never an option for 20-year-old
0:18:27 > 0:18:36Dale.Living in close quarters, our relationship gradually got worse and
0:18:36 > 0:18:40had a snowball effect, gradually getting worse and worse until
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Christmas Day on 2014 when we had a massive argument, she kicked me out
0:18:44 > 0:18:50and I became homeless.He normally would have gone to his Gran's, but
0:18:50 > 0:18:59she had gone to a home, suffering dementia, so he relied on friends
0:18:59 > 0:19:03from school.It's extremely stressful because nobody really
0:19:03 > 0:19:08enjoy his A-levels, I didn't anyway, and it's really hard to balance
0:19:08 > 0:19:13personal life and work life. It's hard to focus on revision and
0:19:13 > 0:19:16schoolwork when you don't know where you will be sleeping at night.Did
0:19:16 > 0:19:19you sometimes go into school that morning knowing you wouldn't have
0:19:19 > 0:19:26anywhere to sleep at night?That was often the case, yes.Dale prevailed,
0:19:26 > 0:19:31he's now renting a flat in his second year at university. As we
0:19:31 > 0:19:36left, Sam was facing a night on the streets but hours later a friend
0:19:36 > 0:19:43called to offer his sofa. Relief tonight but tomorrow the search for
0:19:43 > 0:19:46shelter begins again. Michael Buchanan, BBC News.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48It's something people with older Apple smartphones
0:19:48 > 0:19:50have long suspected - their devices slow down with age.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Now Apple has confirmed that it's done deliberately
0:19:52 > 0:19:54on its older iPhone models.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55But why do they do it?
0:19:55 > 0:20:01Here's our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones.
0:20:01 > 0:20:08Is this about selling more iPhones? That's what a lot of people have
0:20:08 > 0:20:11always suspected, planned obsolescence. Apple says that's not
0:20:11 > 0:20:16the case, it's about managing the performance of all iPhones, where
0:20:16 > 0:20:20their lithium batteries get gradually less effective. In cold
0:20:20 > 0:20:23weather their phones can shut down without warning so what they are
0:20:23 > 0:20:28doing through a software update is gradually lowering the performance
0:20:28 > 0:20:32of the phone, putting less strain on it so the battery is less effective
0:20:32 > 0:20:37than doesn't shut down. It seems a good enough explanation but a lot of
0:20:37 > 0:20:42people are not impressed it has taken Apple more than a year to come
0:20:42 > 0:20:47clean about this.Thank you.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Official photographs of Prince Harry and his American
0:20:50 > 0:20:52bride-to-be, Meghan Markle, have been released by Kensington Palace
0:20:52 > 0:20:53to mark their engagement.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56An intimate black and white portrait of the couple and a more formal
0:20:56 > 0:20:59image of them holding hands were taken by fashion
0:20:59 > 0:21:01and celebrity photographer Alexi Lubomirski earlier this week
0:21:01 > 0:21:03at Frogmore House in Windsor.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Birmingham has been confirmed as host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10The city's bid was the only one submitted by the September deadline.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14With an estimated budget of £750 million,
0:21:14 > 0:21:17it will be the most expensive sports event in Britain since
0:21:17 > 0:21:17the London 2012 Olympics.
0:21:17 > 0:21:26Our Sports Editor Dan Roan reports.
0:21:26 > 0:21:34The host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be... Birmingham.It may
0:21:34 > 0:21:38not have been sport's best kept secret but whispers the moment they
0:21:38 > 0:21:42had been waiting for, an Assembly to remember for local schoolchildren
0:21:42 > 0:21:45this morning with official confirmation their city would be
0:21:45 > 0:21:49staging its first global sports event. The man in charge of the
0:21:49 > 0:21:54movement told me they had found an ideal host.I think Birmingham will
0:21:54 > 0:21:58bring diversity, it will bring a journey over the next four years of
0:21:58 > 0:22:04working with the host city to run the game is right, run it for the
0:22:04 > 0:22:09people, by the people.Birmingham beat Liverpool to be the candidate
0:22:09 > 0:22:12after original choice Durban was stripped of the choice for financial
0:22:12 > 0:22:17difficulties but no other rivals emerged. Come 2022, this stadium
0:22:17 > 0:22:24will host the finest athletes. For people like Heather painting, it is
0:22:24 > 0:22:35added motivation. -- Paton.To compete here in 2022 is a massive
0:22:35 > 0:22:39goal of mine.Organisers insist the games will transform venues like
0:22:39 > 0:22:44this and help regenerate this part of Birmingham with the athletes'
0:22:44 > 0:22:49village creating 1000 homes. 11 days of sporting action will cost three
0:22:49 > 0:22:54quarters of £1 billion to stage, the most expensive sport events to be
0:22:54 > 0:22:58held in Britain since London 2012, and a quarter of that total has to
0:22:58 > 0:23:05be raised by local authorities. The huge cost overruns at London's
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Olympic Stadium have cast a shadow over the record, and hotel tax with
0:23:08 > 0:23:15visitors paying a small fee is now being considered.Opinion is very
0:23:15 > 0:23:19mixed about it, some people are excited about the event coming, it's
0:23:19 > 0:23:23good news for Birmingham, others are worried about the effect on council
0:23:23 > 0:23:26services which are not at a great standard at the moment, and also
0:23:26 > 0:23:31concerned about the disruption in the local community.How will you go
0:23:31 > 0:23:37about making sure it represents good value?We are very confident today
0:23:37 > 0:23:42that with their support, they are saying this is good value for money
0:23:42 > 0:23:47for the British taxpayer because we are expecting to get the investment
0:23:47 > 0:23:53back and more.The success of Glasgow's Commonwealth Games helps
0:23:53 > 0:23:57secure written's reputation as a sporting host, now it is
0:23:57 > 0:24:02Birmingham's turn, and to prove its worth it.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05It was a smash hit on Broadway now the hip-hop musical about one
0:24:05 > 0:24:08of the men who helped to create America as an independent nation
0:24:08 > 0:24:09opens in London tonight.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11'Hamilton' is the story of a poor immigrant from the Caribbean,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14who arrives in New York on the eve of the American Revolution,
0:24:14 > 0:24:17and goes on to become the country's first Treasury Secretary.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz met the musical's creator,
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Lin-Manuel Miranda.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25# Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain...#
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Here is Hamilton's creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31at the White House poetry slam in 2009, performing
0:24:31 > 0:24:33what would become
0:24:33 > 0:24:36the opening number of his musical about America's founding fathers.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Six years later it opened in New York and became
0:24:38 > 0:24:40an instant classic.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43# What's your name, man?
0:24:43 > 0:24:49# Alexander Hamilton # His name is Alexander Hamilton
0:24:49 > 0:24:56And now it's in London, as is a few days the man behind the show,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59And now it's in London, as is for a few days
0:24:59 > 0:25:00the man behind the show,
0:25:00 > 0:25:01who's been compared to...
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Well... Are you the 21st-century Shakespeare?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Not even close!
0:25:05 > 0:25:08No, Shakespeare wrote a mind altering amount of dramas
0:25:08 > 0:25:10and comedies and sonnets, worked with other playwrights.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13I've written two musicals, so let's everybody chill out.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15# I'm past patiently waiting!
0:25:15 > 0:25:18# I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I recognised in the story of Hamilton the story of so many
0:25:21 > 0:25:27immigrants who are coming to the United States today.
0:25:27 > 0:25:33And so I used the music that I love to tell the story.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37A lot has been made of a multiracial cast.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40This is a story of America then told by America now.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42We're going to use every tool at our disposal to eliminate
0:25:42 > 0:25:45the distance between a modern audience and something that happened
0:25:45 > 0:25:46200 somewhat years ago.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50The casting is part of that, and casting it to look
0:25:50 > 0:25:59like the way our country looks eliminates distance.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02When George Washington is a young man of colour and he's
0:26:02 > 0:26:07running for his life, suddenly you're not filled
0:26:07 > 0:26:09with images of Washington standing like this, crossing the Delaware,
0:26:09 > 0:26:13he's not invincible any more.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15It's suddenly these are real people.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19How nervous were you about bringing this show to the UK?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20I was not nervous at all.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23What I was very excited for was the reaction to King George
0:26:23 > 0:26:31III in the shadow of Buckingham Palace.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33I mean we're really right up the street, so the only change
0:26:33 > 0:26:37made in that direction is we have tarted up his outfit quite a bit.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40George III might have lost America but he steals this show every night.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Maybe the family in the big house he bought around the corner
0:26:43 > 0:26:45will make a royal appointment to see it.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Will Gompertz, BBC News.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Time for a look at the weather.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Here's Sarah Keith Lucas.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00The sun has set on the winter solstice so we've had the shortest
0:27:00 > 0:27:05day of the year. It was a mild and cloudy day with brighter spells.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10This is how the sunset in Lyme Regis in Dorset. As we had through the
0:27:10 > 0:27:16next couple of days, that theme is going to continue, still mild,
0:27:16 > 0:27:19cloudy and breezy too. We have a weather front draped across Central
0:27:19 > 0:27:24parts of the country through this evening and overnight, bringing rain
0:27:24 > 0:27:28across Northern Ireland and northern England. Through tonight as that
0:27:28 > 0:27:33eases southwards and eastwards, wet weather across Wales and the
0:27:33 > 0:27:36south-west of England as well. With the clearer skies we could see a
0:27:36 > 0:27:40touch of frost across Scotland but frost free elsewhere with a lot of
0:27:40 > 0:27:44low cloud, drizzle and hill fog. That sums up the weather tomorrow, a
0:27:44 > 0:27:48cloudy sort of day with hill fog across northern and western parts of
0:27:48 > 0:27:53the country. Further east, glimmers of brightness.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57the country. Further east, glimmers of Perhaps some brightness sunshine
0:27:57 > 0:28:06coming through. Moving into the weekend, and a quick look ahead
0:28:06 > 0:28:09towards Christmas, we are keeping high pressure in charge towards the
0:28:09 > 0:28:13south but further north this frontal system becomes more of a player
0:28:13 > 0:28:16through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. During Saturday it will produce
0:28:16 > 0:28:22some wet weather across the north and west of Scotland. Quite breezy
0:28:22 > 0:28:26here too. Elsewhere pretty cloudy and grey, the best of brightness