:00:10. > :00:12.The headlines: A political showdown for Barack Obama
:00:13. > :00:17.He's nominated a moderate judge, Merrick Garland, to fill the vacant
:00:18. > :00:26.But the Republicans say they'll block him.
:00:27. > :00:32.He is the right man for the job. He deserves to be confirmed.
:00:33. > :00:35.Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bolster their positions as the US
:00:36. > :00:38.presidential frontrunners, winning key US primary votes.
:00:39. > :00:41.European naval forces say there's been a sudden increase in the number
:00:42. > :00:51.of migrants trying to reach the EU on flimsy boats from Libya to Italy.
:00:52. > :00:55.Get the roles Royce. We are going for a little dry.
:00:56. > :00:57.Sylvia Anderson, the co-creator of the children's adventure series
:00:58. > :00:59.Thunderbirds, who gave voice to one of its most famous characters
:01:00. > :01:16.President Obama has announced his choice for the next
:01:17. > :01:22.He's nominated a judge from the centre of the political
:01:23. > :01:26.This is despite calls from Republicans to leave
:01:27. > :01:28.the nomination to the next president,
:01:29. > :01:38.The announcement came just hours after Donald Trump
:01:39. > :01:41.He challenged Republicans to drop their refusal to even consider his
:01:42. > :01:43.choice. At a time when our politics
:01:44. > :01:46.are so polarised, at a time when norms and customs of political
:01:47. > :01:49.rhetoric and courtesy and comedy are so often treated
:01:50. > :01:50.like they are disposable, this is precisely the time
:01:51. > :01:53.when we should play it straight and treat the process of appointing
:01:54. > :01:58.a Supreme Court Justice with the seriousness
:01:59. > :02:06.and care it deserves. Well, that announcement
:02:07. > :02:08.from President Obama came just hours after another big night in the run
:02:09. > :02:11.up to the presidential election. Fve big states chose their preferred
:02:12. > :02:13.candidate for November. The two frontrunners -
:02:14. > :02:16.Donald Trump for the Republicans and Hillary Clinton
:02:17. > :02:17.for the Democrats - Our North America editor Jon Sopel
:02:18. > :02:22.reports now from Florida. He's young, articulate,
:02:23. > :02:25.telegenic and Hispanic. But Senator Marco Rubio
:02:26. > :02:29.is also a loser. Last night the great
:02:30. > :02:33.hope of the Republican establishment was crushed
:02:34. > :02:35.in his home state of Florida While it's not God's
:02:36. > :02:39.plan that I be president and while today my
:02:40. > :02:45.campaign is suspended... ..the fact that I've even come this
:02:46. > :02:52.far is evidence of how special Donald Trump made
:02:53. > :02:54.impressive gains last night, winning nearly all the races
:02:55. > :02:58.he fought and is now even further And he's achieved it
:02:59. > :03:04.by bringing in new We have a great opportunity
:03:05. > :03:10.and the people that are voting, Democrats are coming
:03:11. > :03:12.in, Independents are coming in and very importantly,
:03:13. > :03:15.people that never voted before. Donald Trump has had an emphatic
:03:16. > :03:22.victory here in Florida. But perhaps the most striking thing
:03:23. > :03:28.about tonight is what has happened It was to this man, the state
:03:29. > :03:36.governor John Kasich, a moderate Republican who has now
:03:37. > :03:39.vowed to carry on his fight We are going to go all
:03:40. > :03:42.the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican
:03:43. > :03:46.nomination. But the path is strewn
:03:47. > :03:48.with more than confetti. John Kasich staying in the race
:03:49. > :03:52.means the anti-Trump vote is now split between him
:03:53. > :03:57.and Senator Ted Cruz. On the Democratic side,
:03:58. > :03:58.things couldn't be Last night she won
:03:59. > :04:03.all the contests that had been declared, leaving her rival
:04:04. > :04:17.lagging a long way behind. John told me a short while ago that
:04:18. > :04:23.the picture in the race was becoming clearer. I think things have become
:04:24. > :04:29.a lot clearer on the Democratic side. It is hard to see how Senator
:04:30. > :04:33.Bernie Sanders is going to overtake Hillary Clinton. I think there will
:04:34. > :04:37.still be a week ago and more contests, but I think effectively
:04:38. > :04:44.the Clinton camp can feel some relief. -- there will still be a way
:04:45. > :04:48.to go. On the Republican side, much more complex. What looks like will
:04:49. > :04:53.happen is Donald Trump will get to the convention way ahead of all his
:04:54. > :04:58.rivals, but without the critical majority that he needs. That raises
:04:59. > :05:01.the question, would the Republican establishment they try to mount a
:05:02. > :05:09.coup against him even though he is out in front? -- would they dare?
:05:10. > :05:13.Donald Trump has said if they try to do that there would be riots in the
:05:14. > :05:17.streets. You have got a clash between the mathematics and the
:05:18. > :05:22.politics. Mathematically it would be possible to stop Donald Trump,
:05:23. > :05:26.politically, less so. How much hope are those who don't debate Donald
:05:27. > :05:38.Trump taking from that win in all I will? -- who don't want Donald Trump
:05:39. > :05:41.taking from that win in Ohio? It is accommodated and high-risk manoeuvre
:05:42. > :05:49.to say we will stitch this up at the convention. -- a complicated
:05:50. > :05:54.manoeuvre. What it is saying is we will go into a smoke-filled room, do
:05:55. > :05:57.some deals and then decide. It would be seen as very anti-democratic.
:05:58. > :06:00.That is why you still have to bet that Donald Trump will be the
:06:01. > :06:07.Republican nominee for the presidency. President Obama 's
:06:08. > :06:13.announcement of his choice for the next Supreme Court Justice. This is
:06:14. > :06:20.the perfect consensus candidate, what is the problem no? There is no
:06:21. > :06:26.such thing as a perfect inventors in US politics, particularly in an
:06:27. > :06:30.election year. -- no such thing as a perfect consensus. Everything is
:06:31. > :06:34.hotly disputed, and so it will be already Supreme Court pick that
:06:35. > :06:38.Obama announced today. I don't see how this can make a lot of progress
:06:39. > :06:50.when you have Congress in control of the Republicans who believe, and
:06:51. > :06:56.they ... Wait until the election is over and then review it, they say.
:06:57. > :07:00.It is the President's constitutional duty to bring forward the name, but
:07:01. > :07:01.it has to be approved by Congress, and Congress looks like it is going
:07:02. > :07:04.to block it. Now a look at some of
:07:05. > :07:06.the days other news. Former Brazilian president
:07:07. > :07:09.Luis Inancia Lula da Silva has agreed to take a cabinet post
:07:10. > :07:11.in the Government Prosecutors have decided to charge
:07:12. > :07:15.Lula in connection with a huge corruption scandal centred
:07:16. > :07:17.on the state oil company Petrogras. By joining the cabinet,
:07:18. > :07:19.he will escape the jurisdiction The United States has accused
:07:20. > :07:23.North Korea of using American citizens as pawns to pursue
:07:24. > :07:29.a political agenda. The White House statement came
:07:30. > :07:31.after North Korea sentenced a US student, Otto Warmbier,
:07:32. > :07:34.to fifteen years of hard labour An alliance of Kurdish,
:07:35. > :07:41.Christian and Arab groups say they are planning to declare
:07:42. > :07:43.a federal system of self-administration
:07:44. > :07:45.in northern Syria. They said the areas would represent
:07:46. > :07:49.all ethnic groups living The move comes as representatives
:07:50. > :07:53.from the Syrian Government and rebels hold a third day of peace
:07:54. > :07:57.talks in Geneva. The EU naval force targeting migrant
:07:58. > :08:00.smuggling gangs in the Mediterranean says there's been a sudden increase
:08:01. > :08:02.in the number of boats trying Navy chiefs say they expect those
:08:03. > :08:08.numbers to continue to rise sharply in the days to come
:08:09. > :08:10.because of improved weather conditions and as a direct result
:08:11. > :08:12.of the Greek-Macedonian Our Europe ereporter Gavin Lee
:08:13. > :08:18.has spent the past few days on the European ships looking at how
:08:19. > :08:21.the operation is working. The daily routine in the battle
:08:22. > :08:29.against migrant smugglers. This is the Nave Cavour,
:08:30. > :08:36.an Italian aircraft carrier commanding a fleet of five EU
:08:37. > :08:38.warships in international waters Every day helicopter search
:08:39. > :08:43.the skies, reporting signs The ships have a mandate to seize
:08:44. > :08:50.and destroy empty migrant boats. But the presence of these patrols
:08:51. > :08:53.has turned the operation into a huge We received information
:08:54. > :09:02.from a patrol aircraft that around three migrant boats at sea,
:09:03. > :09:05.just outside the territory Within minutes of the boats
:09:06. > :09:09.being spotted, we joined the emergency response
:09:10. > :09:12.team searching for them. The smuggling business
:09:13. > :09:16.has become routine now. A clear sky and a calm sea mean
:09:17. > :09:20.the perfect conditions We are 40 nautical miles
:09:21. > :09:24.from the Libyan coast, and this is the daily reality
:09:25. > :09:27.for the patrol teams in the sea. Down below, there is a migrant boat
:09:28. > :09:32.with around 100 people on board that has just been rescued by the British
:09:33. > :09:38.ship HMS enterprise. There are people now being
:09:39. > :09:40.processed on the ship. You can see quite clearly them
:09:41. > :09:42.climbing the ladder as they are being rescued,
:09:43. > :09:45.but I am told there are still another four migrant boats
:09:46. > :09:50.still waiting to be rescued. We flew a few miles from the British
:09:51. > :10:00.ship and spotted this. A boat full of people desperate
:10:01. > :10:03.for help, with no life jackets, children crouched at the front,
:10:04. > :10:10.floating in this vast sea. Within an hour, rescue teams
:10:11. > :10:12.from HMS Enterprise managed to get Eight migrant boats
:10:13. > :10:15.were picked up today. 900 people were rescued -
:10:16. > :10:18.the highest in a single day But there is growing criticism
:10:19. > :10:25.that the EU ships have become a magnet, with smugglers
:10:26. > :10:27.now directing migrants We have to think about
:10:28. > :10:32.what if we were not here? Patrolling, creating
:10:33. > :10:34.deterrents and able to support And I am afraid that a good
:10:35. > :10:43.percentage of the migrants we save maybe would not be alive any
:10:44. > :10:47.more if we wouldn't be Senior military commanders say more
:10:48. > :10:59.than 100,000 migrants are in Libyan And navy officials here claim
:11:00. > :11:03.the recent closure of the migrant route from Greece to Macedonia
:11:04. > :11:06.will lead to more people choosing this far more dangerous route by sea
:11:07. > :11:17.in the days to come. Martin Xuereb is the director
:11:18. > :11:20.of Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a foundation dedicated to preventing
:11:21. > :11:33.loss of life to refugees Thank you for talking to us. Does
:11:34. > :11:39.this warning of increased numbers do, across the Mediterranean
:11:40. > :11:43.correlate with what your agency is seeing? Yes, definitely. It does
:11:44. > :11:54.not, as a surprise. There is always spike depending on the season, and
:11:55. > :11:59.we now expect crossing along the Mediterranean route today, and then
:12:00. > :12:03.there is a lot of trepidation as to what is good happen in the Aegean. I
:12:04. > :12:09.have no doubt that some refugees who feel they have no option but to do
:12:10. > :12:14.this crossing will choose the riskier route from Libya. You say
:12:15. > :12:18.this is down in part to some of the Central European routes being close.
:12:19. > :12:23.What do you think should be the other options for people if they
:12:24. > :12:34.feel they have no option? All I have to say is, the transfer or ferry
:12:35. > :12:41.crossing from Libya, from Turkey to Greece costs a few euros. For a
:12:42. > :12:46.Syrian national to do it will cost them 600, 700, 800, 900 euros. So
:12:47. > :12:50.clearly there are people who feel they have no option. Otherwise they
:12:51. > :12:54.would not take this option. There have to be options, F 's upstream, a
:12:55. > :13:00.greater effort in countries of have to be options, F 's upstream, a
:13:01. > :13:05.transit and for those who unfortunately choose to take this
:13:06. > :13:12.crossing at the, there needs to be an adequate effort to save lives at
:13:13. > :13:13.sea. We are out of time. Thank you very much for joining us on that
:13:14. > :13:15.from Malta. The search for two armed men
:13:16. > :13:17.goes on in Brussels. The men escaped from an apartment
:13:18. > :13:20.in the city after a police raid Another suspect was shot dead hours
:13:21. > :13:24.after the raid. Belgian prosecutors say
:13:25. > :13:25.he was Algerian and was in
:13:26. > :13:28.the country illegally. Beside his body they found a flag
:13:29. > :13:33.of the Islamic State group, a Kalashnikov rifle and a large
:13:34. > :13:35.quantity of ammunition. Anna Holligan sent this
:13:36. > :13:38.update from Brussels. This is an average residential
:13:39. > :13:42.street in suburban Brussels. But look up there and there
:13:43. > :13:45.is evidence of the intensity Windows on the first
:13:46. > :13:54.and second floor blown out, and police are now in the process
:13:55. > :14:14.of recovering pieces One of the suspect was killed inside
:14:15. > :14:18.the apartment by a special forces sniper. Detail about the object
:14:19. > :14:25.found next to his body give us some indication as to who these people
:14:26. > :14:30.might have been. There was a bit on fundamental is one and a black
:14:31. > :14:33.standard flag, the flag that has been adopted by and have become
:14:34. > :14:42.synonymous with the so-called Islamic State. In terms of who this
:14:43. > :14:45.man what, he has been named as a 35-year-old Algerian national who
:14:46. > :14:48.the authorities say was in Belgium illegally. He had only come to their
:14:49. > :14:54.attention once before in the past, in 2014, an connection with a
:14:55. > :14:57.robbery. The two other suspects managed to escape and there is
:14:58. > :15:01.speculation they jumped through one of the back windows of this
:15:02. > :15:06.apartment. You can see the glass in the kitchen is smashed. So those two
:15:07. > :15:11.people still the subject of a police manhunt. Two other people who were
:15:12. > :15:14.questioned have now been released without charge.
:15:15. > :15:16.And in France, police say they've arrested four Islamist militants
:15:17. > :15:19.on suspicion of planning to carry out attacks in central Paris.
:15:20. > :15:23.Officers said three men and one woman were arrested at dawn.
:15:24. > :15:26.Police also seized an unused cartridge for an automatic rifle
:15:27. > :15:30.The French media say the four were already known to security
:15:31. > :15:36.services and one had been under house arrest since last month.
:15:37. > :15:39.World football's governing body Fifa says it's a victim
:15:40. > :15:45.The organisation is trying to get back tens of millions of dollars
:15:46. > :15:47.it says were stolen by its former leaders.
:15:48. > :15:49.The new head of Fifa, Gianni Infantino,
:15:50. > :15:51.has filed a damages claim in the United States,
:15:52. > :15:53.saying money meant for developing the sport has been illegally
:15:54. > :15:59.Our sports correspondent Alex Capstick told me more.
:16:00. > :16:04.It is officially a victim according to the US authorities,
:16:05. > :16:07.which entitles it to go after the money it says it lost
:16:08. > :16:09.from the so widespread corruption scandal.
:16:10. > :16:13.Fifa claims that the people involved in this, many of them senior,
:16:14. > :16:21.were operating outside the boundaries of Fifa.
:16:22. > :16:24.They were part of the regions, part of the confederations.
:16:25. > :16:26.Conmebol in South America, Concacaf North Central America
:16:27. > :16:32.They were separate legal identities, therefore they didn't know
:16:33. > :16:36.They have said and they have always said.
:16:37. > :16:39.And the reason they are going after it is they have got
:16:40. > :16:42.What they did to secure that was pushed these reforms through.
:16:43. > :16:45.When Gianni Infantino was elected as president a few weeks ago,
:16:46. > :16:47.just before that election, there was another vote on key
:16:48. > :16:56.This was seen as absolutely essential for the firm if it was to
:16:57. > :17:04.maintain its victim status. It was pushed through, it was good news for
:17:05. > :17:10.them. Is Gianni Infantino driving this action or was it an the
:17:11. > :17:14.pipeline beforehand? He had given it the green light to budget has been
:17:15. > :17:16.on the minds of Fifa officials for some time now. They were
:17:17. > :17:23.particularly annoyed about that wheat by Geoffrey Webb who replaced
:17:24. > :17:26.the head of Concacaf who was indicted by the US authorities.
:17:27. > :17:29.There was a picture of him celebrating his wife's birthday in a
:17:30. > :17:34.mansion where they were sipping champagne and having a good party,
:17:35. > :17:37.which really annoyed the far officials. They were really
:17:38. > :17:41.determined to go after the money that these former officials have
:17:42. > :17:42.diverted away from Fifa to pocket themselves.
:17:43. > :17:45.Britain has become the latest country to announce a tax on sugar
:17:46. > :17:48.in soft drinks, to help tackle childhood obesity.
:17:49. > :17:50.The measure was announced by the British finance
:17:51. > :17:54.George Osborne said the levy, from 2018, would raise more
:17:55. > :17:55.than ?700 million to fund sport in schools.
:17:56. > :17:59.A similar tax introduced in Mexico in 2014 has led to a drop
:18:00. > :18:15.In other economic news the Federal Reserve has kept its target interest
:18:16. > :18:22.rates unchanged for a further three months. Despite raising rates in
:18:23. > :18:24.December, they decided to keep them at between 0.25 and 0.5% over
:18:25. > :18:28.concerns in the global economy. Sylvia Anderson - the co-creator
:18:29. > :18:31.of Thunderbirds and the voice of one of its most enduring characters -
:18:32. > :18:33.has died aged 88. She was the woman behind
:18:34. > :18:35.Lady Penelope, the elegant aristocrat who moonlighted
:18:36. > :18:37.as a secret agent. An aristocrat, a British '60s style
:18:38. > :18:43.icon and a secret agent that regularly saved the world
:18:44. > :18:51.from imminent disaster. Someone has been
:18:52. > :19:00.listening at my door. Come along quietly so as not
:19:01. > :19:02.to waken the other passengers. Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
:19:03. > :19:04.was voiced and modelled Along with her then husband
:19:05. > :19:08.Gerry Anderson she created some of the most iconic TV shows
:19:09. > :19:10.of the time, including Thunderbirds, At a time long before computer
:19:11. > :19:21.graphics, the puppets, filmed in what was called
:19:22. > :19:24.Supermarionation, were As was the role of Sylvia
:19:25. > :19:33.in the then very male world The woman was always walking a few
:19:34. > :19:37.paces behind the lead. So I wanted to get away
:19:38. > :19:39.from that if I could. You only realise when you step back
:19:40. > :19:42.from what you've done And that is why I think a lot
:19:43. > :19:50.of our stuff has lived on. After divorcing in 1991,
:19:51. > :19:53.Sylvia continued to have a successful career in TV and film
:19:54. > :19:59.for the next 30 years. But it is probably her alter ego
:20:00. > :20:02.Lady Penelope that she will Sylvia Anderson, who has died at the
:20:03. > :20:28.age of 88. Now, earlier we brought
:20:29. > :20:30.you Jon Sopel's report and you may have detected
:20:31. > :20:33.the sound of some strain Well, there's been criticism
:20:34. > :20:36.from some commentators Brit Hume, senior political analyst
:20:37. > :20:40.with Fox News, said she was "shouting angrily"
:20:41. > :20:42.during a victory speech, while others on social media spoke
:20:43. > :20:45.of her "shrill" voice. First, let's hear again a little
:20:46. > :20:47.of her speaking following those When we hear a candidate
:20:48. > :20:57.for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants,
:20:58. > :20:59.banning all Muslims from entering When he embraces torture,
:21:00. > :21:07.that doesn't make him strong, So should Ms Clinton take any notice
:21:08. > :21:18.of those criticising the way she speaks and do such
:21:19. > :21:20.things make a difference? Joining me now is the executive
:21:21. > :21:32.speech coach Simon Bucknall. What did you make of that? The last
:21:33. > :21:36.thing I would think of that particular clip is that she sounds
:21:37. > :21:40.shrill. Certainly if you're in that hall as an audience member it is
:21:41. > :21:44.very different from watching it on TV. There needs to be an energy from
:21:45. > :21:47.the speaker that can seem a little strong sometimes. For me it is
:21:48. > :21:54.natural that for a presidential candidate who has done as much
:21:55. > :21:59.speaking as she has done, it is not surprising voice has some strain.
:22:00. > :22:04.Yes, it sounds as if she has been doing a lot of shouting impact all
:22:05. > :22:10.is trying to get herself heard. Yes, these events are high-energy and it
:22:11. > :22:14.can come across as strained on TV. When we get stressed, have to use
:22:15. > :22:23.the boys a lot, it is natural that eventually the boys. To show that.
:22:24. > :22:28.-- when we have to use the voice. Men's voices will also go up, but
:22:29. > :22:34.people will hear the female voice going to a higher pitch. Speaking to
:22:35. > :22:41.colleagues in the newsroom, they detect perhaps some sexism in the
:22:42. > :22:45.criticism. Not so much criticism if a man went shrill or started
:22:46. > :22:50.shouting, perhaps. I think that is true. If not sexist then certainly
:22:51. > :22:56.patronising as a description. To describe somebody was Mac energy is
:22:57. > :23:00.different from commenting on the voice or how high-pitched it is. The
:23:01. > :23:05.election is becoming very emotionally charged, it seems to me,
:23:06. > :23:06.so it is not surprising that there are men and right-wing commentators
:23:07. > :23:09.who are having a bit of a go. One politician who famously
:23:10. > :23:11.tried to change her voice to improve her electoral
:23:12. > :23:13.prospects was the former British Prime Minister
:23:14. > :23:20.Margaret Thatcher. We must tand together
:23:21. > :23:27.and fight for the things They are more important
:23:28. > :23:30.than any of us individually. He wanted the European Parliament
:23:31. > :23:32.to be the democratic body he wanted the Commission
:23:33. > :23:35.to be the Executive, he wanted the Council
:23:36. > :23:47.of Ministers to be the Senate. That was a sort of before and after
:23:48. > :23:52.clip showing what she had thought she had to do to sound more credible
:23:53. > :23:56.over the years. Yes, I think it is something many people not just in
:23:57. > :24:00.politics seeks to work on from a leadership point of view. I meet all
:24:01. > :24:07.kinds of people both male and the mill who want to work on their
:24:08. > :24:13.voice. There is something in our nature for a listener that lends
:24:14. > :24:22.authority. To speak in a deeper voice you have to be more relaxed.
:24:23. > :24:26.The tension makes the boys go higher. It is about portraying come
:24:27. > :24:39.outside even if there is no harm in sight. Absolutely. -- even if there
:24:40. > :24:42.is no harm inside. Churchill, for example, had to work very hard to
:24:43. > :24:47.convey the authority he wanted to convey. So the work on the voice is
:24:48. > :24:52.a male and female challenge. There is something in human nature that
:24:53. > :25:00.means that I play slower, deeper tone tends to greater authority in
:25:01. > :25:05.general. There must be many people listening out there who want to
:25:06. > :25:09.know, how do I make myself sound cam if I am feeling very nervous about a
:25:10. > :25:15.presentation or something like that. What do you recommend? One thing is
:25:16. > :25:24.remained yourself to dig deep quality breast using the diaphragm.
:25:25. > :25:32.Which is hard if your body is tense. Yes, but just taking a moment. A tip
:25:33. > :25:36.I have found has worked out treat is tipped the chin down. It helps to
:25:37. > :25:40.just centre you and enable you to breathe deeply. That can certainly
:25:41. > :25:45.help. The second thing is it needs to feel artificially deep and slow.
:25:46. > :25:47.If it feels natural, it is probably not deep enough and it is probably a
:25:48. > :25:54.bit too fast. Thank you very much. You can get in touch with me
:25:55. > :26:01.and some of the team via Twitter.