:00:00. > :00:10.Reporting from Washington, I'm Jane O'Brien.
:00:11. > :00:13.The Clinton camp in damage control, while Trump seizes -
:00:14. > :00:26.650,000, you know what I call that? That's
:00:27. > :00:30.The timing couldn't be worse for Hillary Clinton
:00:31. > :00:33.and the FBI is under fire for releasing the information
:00:34. > :00:37.We'll get reaction from our correspondents on the campaign trail
:00:38. > :00:43.where the candidates are holding rallies.
:00:44. > :00:48.We're on the ground with Iraqi forces as they take the last town
:00:49. > :00:54.the Islamic State group's final major city in Iraq.
:00:55. > :00:59.Officials say it's going to cost $9 billion
:01:00. > :01:15.to rebuild towns and villages in central Italy.
:01:16. > :01:18.With just eight days until the US presidential election,
:01:19. > :01:28.And this time the FBI is at the centre of a political
:01:29. > :01:30.scandal that has rocked the race to the White House.
:01:31. > :01:32.A new cache of emails have been found that
:01:33. > :01:34.could reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use
:01:35. > :01:37.And while the significance of the emails isn't yet clear,
:01:38. > :01:40.the Republican candidate Donald Trump is seizing the moment,
:01:41. > :01:45.as our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt reports.
:01:46. > :01:49.Hillary Clinton drops by Betty's Diner.
:01:50. > :01:51.There are not many votes to
:01:52. > :01:54.be had here, but surrounded by new controversy, she needs
:01:55. > :01:56.to fire up her traditional support from the
:01:57. > :02:03.She and her aides are troubled by signs that a
:02:04. > :02:06.new enquiry into her e-mails is weakening her support.
:02:07. > :02:12.But returning back later after another long day
:02:13. > :02:15.campaigning, she and her team believe they retain an advantage in
:02:16. > :02:17.organisation but her lead is narrowing.
:02:18. > :02:20.While in office, Hillary Clinton relied on a private e-mail
:02:21. > :02:22.account on her own server, sending thousands of messages, both personal
:02:23. > :02:28.The FBI said that was negligent but did not press
:02:29. > :02:35.Now in a separate case involving the husband of one of her
:02:36. > :02:36.closest aides, more of Mrs Clinton's e-mails
:02:37. > :02:38.have come to light and the
:02:39. > :02:45.Hillary Clinton's running mate today addressed the issue.
:02:46. > :02:50.The FBI put out this very unusual letter,
:02:51. > :02:52.very unprecedented, they're not specific
:02:53. > :02:56.cash in and they are also not generally supposed to put up
:02:57. > :02:58.politically sensitive stuff right before an election.
:02:59. > :03:00.There may be some distractions but we won't be
:03:01. > :03:08.Some Democrats have turned on the FBI, accusing the bureau of
:03:09. > :03:10.breaking the law by revealing politically sensitive information so
:03:11. > :03:15.It's far from clear whether the latest FBI enquiry
:03:16. > :03:17.has changed many minds amongst Hillary Clinton's supporters but on
:03:18. > :03:20.one thing everybody agrees, if the focus
:03:21. > :03:24.is on Hillary Clinton and her
:03:25. > :03:27.e-mails, then it's not on Donald Trump and his scandals,
:03:28. > :03:34.Donald Trump calls the finding of 650,000 e-mails
:03:35. > :03:40.It doesn't matter that nothing has been proved or that
:03:41. > :03:43.the e-mails may be duplicates of those already studied.
:03:44. > :03:44.He denounces Hillary Clinton's actions as crooked
:03:45. > :03:56.That was so bad would happen to originally and it took guts for the
:03:57. > :04:01.director to make the move that he made in light of the kind of
:04:02. > :04:02.opposition he had, where they're trying to protect her from criminal
:04:03. > :04:06.prosecution. It may well be that the e-mails
:04:07. > :04:08.will The Democrats had wanted
:04:09. > :04:14.the election to be a referendum on Trump and his fitness to be
:04:15. > :04:16.president- in these final days, all the attention
:04:17. > :04:21.is on his opponent. Let's get the latest
:04:22. > :04:27.from our correspondents on the campaign trails now -
:04:28. > :04:30.Aleem Maqbool is at a Trump rally in Warren, Michigan
:04:31. > :04:42.and Gary O'Donoghue is at a Clinton The Clinton campaign has had a
:04:43. > :04:49.weekend to digest this shocking news, what's the mood to now?
:04:50. > :04:56.Effectively, they are in a PR war with the FBI at the moment. They
:04:57. > :05:00.know the details of all these 60 thousand e-mails will not be cleared
:05:01. > :05:03.up by polling day so they have to win the argument, in public opinion,
:05:04. > :05:07.but whether it was a good idea. Mrs Clinton says she won't get
:05:08. > :05:15.distracted and a few minutes ago behind me, she made her case. I'm
:05:16. > :05:18.sure a lot of you may be asking with this new e-mail story is about, and
:05:19. > :05:24.why in the world the FBI would decide to jump into an election,
:05:25. > :05:31.with no evidence of any wrongdoing, with just days to go. Also worth
:05:32. > :05:35.saying, the FBI was booed here when the e-mails were mentioned. You
:05:36. > :05:45.don't often hear that at a political rally. That's the latest from Gary.
:05:46. > :05:50.Let's go to Michigan. You don't think of Michigan is being a swing
:05:51. > :05:56.state so why is Donald Trump there, it doesn't feel he now has momentum
:05:57. > :06:01.on his side? It's really interesting, it is a democratic
:06:02. > :06:06.state, they have been many polls over the last couple of months
:06:07. > :06:14.carried out and the none of them show him ahead. And yet, the
:06:15. > :06:20.schedule was announced after the e-mail furore came about on Friday,
:06:21. > :06:22.where the FBI announced they were reopening this investigation into
:06:23. > :06:27.Mrs Clinton and suddenly they decided this was on, that they could
:06:28. > :06:32.come to states like this and make an impact. We spoke to the hundreds of
:06:33. > :06:37.people who are in this stadium, waiting for Donald Trump to appear,
:06:38. > :06:41.they feel that something has changed with that announcement by the FBI. I
:06:42. > :06:44.have to say the first polls that have come out since that
:06:45. > :06:49.announcement haven't really changed things, and also that spending time
:06:50. > :06:53.going around the country, the worldview of Hillary Clinton
:06:54. > :06:57.supporters and Donald Trump supporters is so different, I can't
:06:58. > :07:01.imagine anyone jumping from Hillary Clinton to being a double Trump
:07:02. > :07:07.supporter because of the FBI is saying but there are those in
:07:08. > :07:11.between, they stay away from the polls. Hillary Clinton already has a
:07:12. > :07:17.problem in energising the vote, not a problem Donald Trump has had, this
:07:18. > :07:21.could add to that as well. And it is only Monday, we have the whole week
:07:22. > :07:29.something else to happen. Thank you both. We will have more on the
:07:30. > :07:32.latest twists and turns of this most unpredictable campaign later.
:07:33. > :07:35.Iraqi special forces trying to drive so-called Islamic State
:07:36. > :07:38.from its stronghold in the country are now said to be very close
:07:39. > :07:41.For three weeks US-backed Iraqi troops
:07:42. > :07:45.as well as Kurdish Peshmerga Forces have edged closer to the city.
:07:46. > :07:48.Troops in the east have now reached the village of Bazwaya -
:07:49. > :07:52.Our correspondent, Ian Pannell, travelled with some of the elite
:07:53. > :07:59.The final battle for Mosul is getting close.
:08:00. > :08:04.Many expected these troops to pause, but that isn't what happened today.
:08:05. > :08:07.It's just gone six o'clock in the morning and as you can seen,
:08:08. > :08:12.a large military convoy is starting to form up.
:08:13. > :08:15.We are with one section of the counterterrorism forces.
:08:16. > :08:18.What we are told is that there is an armoured division that's
:08:19. > :08:20.going to move its way through the desert,
:08:21. > :08:23.there is a column of special forces and counterterrorism units that
:08:24. > :08:27.on the last two villages before Mosul.
:08:28. > :08:30.We are also told that if they have enough momentum
:08:31. > :08:34.and are able to move, they're not going to stop.
:08:35. > :08:37.The roads have been laced with IEDs, home-made bombs that
:08:38. > :08:39.have killed so many, so the convoy
:08:40. > :08:46.The armoured column has now moved out into the desert
:08:47. > :08:52.in what they call a flanking manoeuvre, in other words just
:08:53. > :08:59.going round the town of Bazwaya, which they are trying to get to.
:09:00. > :09:01.We're in the lead vehicles here with the commander of
:09:02. > :09:05.Over there is the town of Bazwaya, which they're
:09:06. > :09:10.If they manage to get through that, they will move on even further
:09:11. > :09:20.We're moving along now inside a heavily armoured Humvee.
:09:21. > :09:23.You can see there are two men, two soldiers in the front here,
:09:24. > :09:30.and this man's foot belongs to a gunner who is up in the turret,
:09:31. > :09:32.firing large calibre weapons are told what they think
:09:33. > :09:42.We are now moving into the town of Bazwaya.
:09:43. > :09:51.Which is going to put us within eyesight of Mosul.
:09:52. > :09:53.The troops fought their way into Bazwaya.
:09:54. > :09:55.The last town standing between the Iraqi government
:09:56. > :10:11.And the closer they get, the fiercer the resistance.
:10:12. > :10:15.Units within the counterterrorism unit have just advanced
:10:16. > :10:22.They just opened attack on what they think are IS positions,
:10:23. > :10:25.we've just been told to get back into the vehicles,
:10:26. > :10:34.they have another unit coming from the other side of the town.
:10:35. > :10:37.There is also a fighter jet overhead trying to give some cover,
:10:38. > :10:40.as you would expect, it's a very confused, dangerous situation.
:10:41. > :10:42.The few families left here have been trapped between
:10:43. > :10:49.If they are ever to live in peace, this campaign will also need to plan
:10:50. > :10:53.Today has been a successful mission for the counterterrorism forces.
:10:54. > :10:59.They managed to take the last town before the city of Mosul.
:11:00. > :11:02.The operations have stopped for today, they are no less
:11:03. > :11:11.than a mile away from the heart of the Islamic caliphate.
:11:12. > :11:12.More families homeless, more lives lost.
:11:13. > :11:23.And the real battle is still yet to come.
:11:24. > :11:27.They will have the latest from Iraq as things unfold.
:11:28. > :11:29."Italy's soul was unsettled." Those are the words
:11:30. > :11:31.of the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, speaking
:11:32. > :11:33.about the country's most powerful earthquake since 1980.
:11:34. > :11:35.More than 15,000 people are now homeless -
:11:36. > :11:42.Officials say it could cost around $9 billion
:11:43. > :11:44.to rebuild the wrecked towns and villages.
:11:45. > :11:47.It was the fourth earthquake to hit central Italy in recent months -
:11:48. > :11:51.and the worst hit town is Norcia, southeast of Perugia,
:11:52. > :12:03.In the tranquility of the Umrbian countryside, life is in ruin.
:12:04. > :12:05.It's hard to believe no-one was killed here.
:12:06. > :12:10.The earthquake, Italy's strongest in nearly 40 years.
:12:11. > :12:12.Thousands of people are now homeless.
:12:13. > :12:16.In Norcia, this camp, set up to house them
:12:17. > :12:18.after earthquakes last week, is closed.
:12:19. > :12:21.They have all been told to leave the area.
:12:22. > :12:30.TRANSLATION: We have spent the last 24 hours here.
:12:31. > :12:36.There's nothing left working in Norcia, no shops, no facilities.
:12:37. > :12:48.No-one except emergency workers can go into the old walled town.
:12:49. > :12:50.Norcia's ancient buildings now rubble.
:12:51. > :12:53.A structural engineer has assessed the damage, the Italian
:12:54. > :12:57.The Prime Minister's promised the region hundreds
:12:58. > :13:04.For now, the focus is on rebuilding communities, but there's a big
:13:05. > :13:07.as yet unanswered question here - how do you protect towns
:13:08. > :13:10.and villages like this which lie in an area notoriously vulnerable
:13:11. > :13:19.For this woman, history repeats itself.
:13:20. > :13:22.Her father helped reconstruct the town after an earthquake
:13:23. > :13:30.Today she says, we find ourselves living that catastrophe.
:13:31. > :13:32.My father says it's worse than it was back then.
:13:33. > :13:35.It's been a shock for us, for all the people that
:13:36. > :13:41.Norcia's medieval walls were built into the shape of heart.
:13:42. > :13:56.Broken now, one woman told us, but strong enough to survive.
:13:57. > :13:58.The Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders has gone
:13:59. > :14:01.on trial, accused of inciting racial hatred after he led a chant
:14:02. > :14:04.demanding there should be fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands.
:14:05. > :14:07.But Mr Wilders - well known for his provocative views on Islam -
:14:08. > :14:12.has refused to attend, saying it's a political trial.
:14:13. > :14:14.Lebanon's parliament has elected Michel Aoun as president,
:14:15. > :14:17.ending a political stand-off that has left the post empty
:14:18. > :14:21.Speaking shortly after his appointment, the former army-general
:14:22. > :14:25.vowed to prevent the conflicts in the region
:14:26. > :14:31.Police in Turkey have detained the editor in chief of
:14:32. > :14:34.the leading opposition newspaper, Joumhouriyet.
:14:35. > :14:37.At least a dozen senior employees are being held
:14:38. > :14:40.on what the government described as "terror-related" charges.
:14:41. > :14:42.They're accused of links to the banned Kurdish
:14:43. > :14:45.militant group, the PKK, and the movement of Fethullah Gulen,
:14:46. > :14:47.the exiled cleric blamed by the Turkish authorities
:14:48. > :15:00.For us here in BBC-land, it's a big anniversary.
:15:01. > :15:02.This week marks 80 years since the BBC launched the world's
:15:03. > :15:09.It was 1936 in London, and like so often in the history
:15:10. > :15:13.of TV, the launch was followed by a battle of competing technologies.
:15:14. > :15:19.Our correspondent Nick Higham reports.
:15:20. > :15:23.The controllers are ready on vision...and sound.
:15:24. > :15:28.Vision and sound are on, the station goes on the air.
:15:29. > :15:32.It was pioneering, high-tech, thrilling.
:15:33. > :15:34.80 years ago, the BBC launched television,
:15:35. > :15:38.with a promotional film singing, quite literally, of the
:15:39. > :15:48.# Mystic, magic rays all about us in the blue...#
:15:49. > :15:51.Now, that first broadcast and some of the equipment used has been
:15:52. > :16:00.At Cambridge University, Dr Hugh Hunt rebuilt one
:16:01. > :16:07.So, this is what the disk looks like, and you can
:16:08. > :16:10.see it has got tiny little holes in it.
:16:11. > :16:17.A bright light focused by a lens shone through a darkened box
:16:18. > :16:24.The reflections were picked up by photoelectric cells.
:16:25. > :16:30.The replica has lower resolution than the cameras used in 1936,
:16:31. > :16:33.so it necessitated some pretty heavy make-up.
:16:34. > :17:02.The technology had been developed by the father of television,
:17:03. > :17:03.John Logie Baird, starting in the 1920s.
:17:04. > :17:05.He took the technology from the 1920s, through
:17:06. > :17:13.He understood the mechanical side, the optical side, the
:17:14. > :17:19.He understood the entirety of his technology.
:17:20. > :17:26.The venue for those first broadcasts was Alexandra Palace in north
:17:27. > :17:31.London, where Baird's cameras were pitched against a rival,
:17:32. > :17:40.To televise scenes like this in the studio, John Logie Baird
:17:41. > :17:47.His equipment was cumbersome and immobile.
:17:48. > :17:53.EMI's electronic cameras, by contrast, could move around
:17:54. > :17:58.After three months, Baird's system was scrapped.
:17:59. > :18:01.Those early viewers were treated to dramas, dancing girls,
:18:02. > :18:03.cookery programmes, motoring programmes
:18:04. > :18:21.Let's take a look at our top story again.
:18:22. > :18:24.Well, before they were nominated to run for the highest public office
:18:25. > :18:27.here in the United States, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
:18:28. > :18:30.SHE had high approval ratings as Secretary of State -
:18:31. > :18:34.HE was a businessman turned reality TV star.
:18:35. > :18:37.Now they are among the most disliked candidates in presidential history.
:18:38. > :18:46.David Botti has been trying to find out.
:18:47. > :18:49.There are 320 million people in the US and, out of these,
:18:50. > :18:54.just two have a chance of becoming the next president.
:18:55. > :19:10.First, what you need to understand is that America in 2016
:19:11. > :19:17.New research found that median Democrats and Republicans have
:19:18. > :19:20.moved further apart over the past two decades.
:19:21. > :19:22.And they also found that partisan divisions are greatest among those
:19:23. > :19:34.who are the most active in the political process.
:19:35. > :19:35."Most active in the political process."
:19:36. > :19:40.They are the ones voting in the primaries and there's the rub.
:19:41. > :19:42.The two mainstream candidates aren't chosen by the general public.
:19:43. > :19:44.They're chosen in the primaries by the parties, which are
:19:45. > :19:46.private institutions, with their own rules and agendas.
:19:47. > :19:54.Only 18% of Americans voted in the primaries.
:19:55. > :19:57.And only half of them chose either Trump or Clinton.
:19:58. > :20:06.And those candidates stood for a huge range of positions
:20:07. > :20:09.no longer represented for the voters.
:20:10. > :20:11.So, a small portion of the most polarised Americans chose
:20:12. > :20:15.the mainstream candidates, which may explain why there's less
:20:16. > :20:25.Both were, once upon a time, pretty popular.
:20:26. > :20:27.Clinton was an extremely popular Secretary of State,
:20:28. > :20:31.whose favourability rating was 63% when she left office.
:20:32. > :20:33.And Trump, of course he had the top-rated TV
:20:34. > :20:39.But stepping into that unforgiving presidential campaign arena tends
:20:40. > :20:48.For Clinton, she has a 30-year public record, with ups
:20:49. > :20:51.And her supporters say that sexism plays a role
:20:52. > :20:56.And for Trump, well, that bombastic behaviour that won
:20:57. > :20:59.TV viewers makes him unpopular, not just with traditional Democratic
:21:00. > :21:01.opponents, that's obvious, but also moderate Republicans,
:21:02. > :21:09.Even now, both candidates are very popular among certain groups
:21:10. > :21:20.And is this the year that voters demand more
:21:21. > :21:28.With me now is the Boston Globe's Deputy Washington
:21:29. > :21:42.The piece there was talking about people choosing from the lesser of
:21:43. > :21:45.two evils in many respects. What then do you think is good to be the
:21:46. > :21:52.impact of this latest twist in the e-mail scandal? It has been, whoever
:21:53. > :21:57.we are talking about is that the disadvantage, because so many people
:21:58. > :22:01.dislike both of the candidates. It did seem to turn a little bit
:22:02. > :22:05.towards Hillary Clinton can we spent several weeks talking about Donald
:22:06. > :22:09.Trump's issues with women, some of his past allegations of groping, and
:22:10. > :22:14.now that has changed into talking about Hillary Clinton and her e-mail
:22:15. > :22:18.scandal. I think it's an negative for Hillary Clinton, how big of a
:22:19. > :22:23.negative, I don't know, it's yet to be seen. You want a few polls to
:22:24. > :22:28.come out, Hillary Clinton still has an awful lot of advantages heading
:22:29. > :22:36.into next week's elections. And a lot of people have voted early? Yes,
:22:37. > :22:39.the state she has focused on, she has more pathways to getting the
:22:40. > :22:43.electoral votes that she needs in order to win, Donald Trump as the
:22:44. > :22:49.play in near-perfect game for that to happen. -- has to play in
:22:50. > :22:52.near-perfect game. I don't know if this is as many mental change as
:22:53. > :22:57.double Trump may need. The person feeling the heat even most is the
:22:58. > :23:03.FBI director. The White House says that President Obama does not think
:23:04. > :23:07.he was many plating the election when he made that announcement, but
:23:08. > :23:12.where does this leave Hillary Clinton? -- manipulating the
:23:13. > :23:17.election. We don't know what's in those e-mails, so it leads your
:23:18. > :23:23.imagination to run wild. You can imagine anything being in there.
:23:24. > :23:30.She's encouraging the FBI to release as much information as they have, I
:23:31. > :23:34.think it leaves her trying to play, she's trying to be on the fence
:23:35. > :23:39.going after the FBI director and his integrity you see a lot of her
:23:40. > :23:44.campaign, trying to question his decision to have this muddled
:23:45. > :23:48.release on Friday, where you don't know what you are dealing with.
:23:49. > :23:54.She's tried to change the discussion away from her e-mails onto him. We
:23:55. > :23:59.heard from our correspondent in Ohio, that some of the people at the
:24:00. > :24:05.rally actually booed the FBI. What about Trump, in Michigan, why is he
:24:06. > :24:09.there? Trump, his schedule is baffling, he was in New Mexico
:24:10. > :24:13.yesterday, he's not necessarily spending time in the key states that
:24:14. > :24:20.he needs to win. So either they are seeing something nobody else is
:24:21. > :24:26.seeing in the internal polling or he's off on a fool 's errand. Who
:24:27. > :24:29.knows. What is your best guess? Does he have enough momentum to take
:24:30. > :24:34.votes away from Hillary Clinton at this stage? I think Hillary Clinton
:24:35. > :24:36.still has a lot of the advantages heading in, but her campaign network
:24:37. > :24:39.and the early voting. Thank you. Finally, it's fair to say this
:24:40. > :24:41.election hasn't always projected the most positive image of America
:24:42. > :24:44.to the rest of the world, so spare a thought for the Secretary
:24:45. > :24:47.of State John Kerry. Speaking in London,
:24:48. > :24:49.he was frank about some The way it's made it
:24:50. > :24:55.difficult for me is when Foreign Minister in another country,
:24:56. > :25:03.the president or Foreign Minister of another country and say
:25:04. > :25:07.hey, we really want you to move more authoritatively towards democracy,
:25:08. > :25:09.they look at you, they are polite, but you can see
:25:10. > :25:14.the question in their head. And in their eyes and
:25:15. > :25:21.in their expression. With just eight days until the US
:25:22. > :25:24.presidential election, And this time the FBI
:25:25. > :25:29.is at the centre of a political scandal that has rocked
:25:30. > :25:32.the race for the White House. A new cache of emails has been found
:25:33. > :25:37.that could reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use
:25:38. > :25:42.of a private server. But for now from me, Jane O'Brien,
:25:43. > :26:10.and the rest of the team, goodbye. It's been a spooky old Halloween
:26:11. > :26:15.already, some of us got into the low 20s early on but now the fog is
:26:16. > :26:18.reforming and it could be a real issue tomorrow morning, particularly
:26:19. > :26:19.in central and southern parts of England and