Now on bbc news, adam fleming and the bbcs Politics Team bring you the essential guide to the 2019 uk general election, with electioncast. Electioncast from the bbc. We are in this election because of brexit. We dont want to be thinking about a general election. We want to be buying our christmas presents. If anyone says they know what is happening, cock an eyebrow, smile politely and turn your back. Welcome to todays electioncast. It is adam here in election cast hq. And chris mason here as well. And we arejoined in our new broadcasting house by an a list news person. Is that where i say me . Yeah, yeah. Rebekah va rdy. Yes, i am on the ground floor newsroom camera, its the first time ive ever been here, so its actually a new experience all around. Yes, thats where me and chris do a lot of our broadcasting from. Its quite a self conscious thing that, if you start speaking quite loudly, youre putting people off behind you who are trying to diligently compile running orders for news programmes. But it is very good for knowing what the weather is going to be, because youre next to the weather people. Thats over there, isnt it . I cant look, you see if i do that. So emily, do you know why we have lured you here today . No, go on tell me. That is because former secretary of state and president ial candidate Hillary Clinton has been on the airwaves promoting her book, and we thought that you are really immersed in american politics but that stuff so if you could come and talk to us about Hillary Clinton and what she has been saying. Yeah, wasnt that fascinating . I thought she had given us a slightly calmer side to the one that i remember in 2016. She didnt hold back at all from wading into uk politics, first of all. I dont know if youve got the clip of her when she talks about the russian dossier and how dumbfounded she was that we havent yet seen it. Yes, we do have that clip, and this is her talking about that report from the intelligence and Security Committee and house of commons, or the old house of commons and the old committee, because it doesnt exist anymore. And she got it slightly wrong because she said it was a government report, which it isnt, strictly speaking, although it is now in the hands of the government. Im dumbfounded that this government will not release the report of our russian influence, because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. That should be an absolute condition. Because there is no doubt, we know it in our country, we have seen it in europe, we have seen it here, that russia in particular is determined to try to shape the politics of western democracies, not to our benefit, but to theirs. Theres no doubt of the role that russia played in our 2016 election, and is continuing to play. Theres a lot of evidence that russia played the brexit election. Now, im not in your country, i dont have a say about any of that. But the fact that the current government wont release this report by your own government should raise some questions. That is a zinger of an intervention, isnt it . From a former secretary of state, right in the middle of a general Election Campaign here. Absolutely, and someone who has nothing to lose anymore. Does not worry about which toes she might be treading on. She knows what she thinks and the russia interference that she felt was very present in the us election has clearly informed a lot of what she feels and speaks about and the subsequent years. And i think whats funny about it is that shes convinced that russia had interfered in america. And we had somebody on newsnight, a former National Security adviser, and were putting the same questions to him, because were doing a lot of work on the dossier itself. And he said look, and i paraphrase, there is almost no doubt that the russians did interfere last time around in the Intelligence Services here believe that and it is very likely that they will be interfering in this election. But the natural place of space for them to interfere would be over the union. And the problem is, they do not know which side to pick, who would break up the union who would be more successful from a russian perspective. And a point that you made before we heard that clip about the tone that Hillary Clinton adopting the conversation at a curiosity that ive noticed some politics here and in the states, i do not know what it says about our political culture and political conversation that so often politician some more human, sound more grounded, when they are no longer on the mainstream political stage. And i think you saw that in the interview. We all call it the exit interview, the interview you want is the first one you did when they leave office and quite often, there is a lot of baggage, and that one because they have to set their legacy, explain what they achieved, blamed whoever needs blaming to them and instead you get a sort of relaxing of the shoulders, and they do Start Talking human again, and they do start i dont know if you call it wading in, because it sounds unfair, but definitely injecting what they really think is into the subjects that they are asked about and i think youve got absolutely a clear clarification on the russian stuff. She then talks about female mps, and she doesnt hold back on the murder ofjo cox, which she watched, and this was something that ricocheted around the world, and she called it a political assassination. If you can display that bit of her talking about it. Yes, we do have that clip, and heres an interview that will be up tomorrow, but theyre letting us play this part today. Ive had conversations with current and former members of both the house of commons and the house of lords. Certainly the jo cox murder was a terrible hate crime, political crime. But these women tell me that theyre getting death threats, they are getting all kinds of vile language thrown at them online, in letters, on the street. We cannot permit that. Your government should not permit that. Whoever is in your government should be standing up and saying very clearly that will protect people who run, we will not allow these anti Democratic Forces to threaten people, particularly women, so they dont stand for office. Im just amazed by the idea, are you a backbench mp and Hillary Clinton calls to say, whats going on in westminster these days . When you call it a political assassination, the land of Abraham Lincoln and jfk, when you look at this with absolute horror, but somehow we just thought of it as the work of a nutter. It was an absolute tragedy, but we didnt put it in the context of political assassination, and she is. Shes getting right in there and saying, that is how youve got to see these things. This was a woman whose voice was shut down and this is from a woman who, lets be honest, does not look like she is entirely left on the political stage herself. And talking to her on radio four this morning, and she constantly and i have heard constantly before, she constantly talks about the work that she has to do, the books that she is writing, the education. And yet she wont shut the door on standing again. And what became clear was that there are candidates out there for the democrats, and there wasnt one person that she is going to endorse. Now, you might say it is very hard for the secretary of state, who has tried and failed to endorse one candidate with a possibly harming them or hurting others. But there was something a bit more and that, a sense i got from her voice that she hasnt quite loved the person who feels like they are in her shoes or mantle. And we look at the democrats its quite an interesting choice that lies ahead, because they are trying to work out the choice before them. Do they pick the person he can best buy donald trump, or pick the person who can best encapsulate what the democrats as a party want to stand for now . And there might be two Different Things pulling into different directions. It would be extraordinary, phenomenal, if Hillary Clinton were to enter the 2020 president ial race at this time. But if not, why not just say no . I havent thought of that. She is in a book selling tour at the moment, and wrote this book about gutsy women, and she is on stage with various events and she has not seen this as a political intervention that is doing here. Book tours are terrifying things and if you feel like you have said something very flippant just as you are leaving or putting on your code, and then it becomes as massive headline that she says you had during the next morning. So theyre quite delicate things because the warmth in a room feels very real and its quite seductive. And then you suddenly think, oh my god, youve got to be really careful. This is still a microphone and that is still the rest of the world out there. Interesting insight from the interviewer about being interviewed. Or maybe Hillary Clinton knows that she sells more books if she keeps the dream alive for her believers and followers, and suggests that there is still. Oh, no, its just a Marketing Campaign and we have fallen for it i think she is too savvy, she could shut this down say i have had a go. I did not manage it when youre in for the top job, thats it. She still sounds like somebody who has got a bone to pick with life in so many areas, whether its the russian interference, whether it is the Trump Presidency as she sees now, whether its james comey and the fbi intervention, which i think both her and bill clinton took incredibly seriously, and that has remained the intention still. So call it broadly unfinished business, but there is a woman that feels like she has a lot more to offer, is still choosing the right vehicle and the right direction and what she can do with that. Thank you for coming on, and we greatly appreciated. The big news story is the flooding in Northern England and the Prime Minister and loads of ministers attending the meeting of the governments Emergency Committee known as cobra. And afterwards, there was a quick clip with borisjohnson as Prime Minister. I think emergency services, local authorities, Environment Agency have been working flat out to deliver an adequate response. I know there will be people who feel that isnt good enough. I know there are people who are worrying about the damage to their homes, who will be worried about their insurance situation, worried about the losses that they face. All i want to say to those people is that there are schemes to cover those losses, that we do ensure that people will have protections against flood and those are certainly being activated now. More details from downing street on with those schemes actually are. A little after that clip from the Prime Minister, 7 15pm tonight, some details from the government. And its curious, there is still a government, despite it being an Election Campaign, and you still get their reaction. What do we find out in addition to when it armed forces being deployed to help with the recovery effort. They also say that there will be a Community Recovery grant which is organised by the local government department, equivalent to £500 per eligible household to help with the immediate recovery as far as those media personnel are concerned. They come from the battalion in north yorkshire, and they will be deployed tomorrow. £500 per household to go to local authorities and that is called the recovery grant and a Business Recovery grant we can get more if your business that is affected, but that is for stuff that is not covered by your insurance. Its more than just a check if your flight has been flooded. And youre asking if this stuff is different from the past is why these are schemes done in 2015 and there are loads of politics loads of factors with our reality checkers we got the picture from the scene. I am next to the river don, im off to do some broadcasting but fish lake is kind of cut off at the moment and the only way into the villages by tractors so hopefully i will try to hitch a lift with the fire service or with the farmer. But right next to the river. A lot of standing water around. Really massive issue for so many people in south yorkshire, collating with the general Election Campaign and those of politicians are using it as a backdrop to make various promises. We had joe swinson in promising a billion forflood prevention screen in order to speak with some pretty upset people at the moment, because this is happened to them before in 2007. Lots of flood defences and they have made a difference but if youre home is flooded again, it doesnt make much of a difference if youre honest and Jeremy Corbyn has been in bentley and has been with people this afternoon, ed miliband, with people that have been affected by the flooding, the people from the south just want some help and we have been speaking with loads of people whove had to leave their homes with absolutely nothing and whether it be by local or national government, the feel absolutely let down at the moment. The hardestjob in this election is a crunch throw the numbers, tom, youve been looking at all the stuff youve heard from the parties today but labour in the Environment Agency, what if you find out about what are they saying and secondly, what is it that you have been able to drill down to prove . Quite a few spreadsheets and this one. Strap yourself in. Labour is saying that there is been a 20 cut in the Environment Agency and this is the public body which deals with wildlife, Natural Disasters including flooding. I am struggling a little bit to find these numbers so i went to labour labour to aske them where exactly they got from and they are pointing towards unearthed, which is a Journalism Project run by greenpeace we look at the data, text from 2010, but 2030 and what the data shows that in january 2013, there are 13,000 staff employed 13,027 staff employed by the agency by january 2018, have fallen and 10,500 and 33 and that is where you get that number. If you get the very latest figures, which you can get the september this year, then youll find that the staff count has picked up slightly to 10,713, so thats still down the course of the january 2013 figure. And we mention the lib dems have been talking about more money that they put into flood defences if they there were the government. The lib dems are proposing this flood fund which would come from borrowing and this fund is necessary to them because leaving the eu means that we lose access to what is called the eu solidarity fund. This is a fund that eu members can access in the event of a Natural Disaster such as a flood. They claim the uk received £2 million from this fund since it was created in 2002 and that includes a million in 2016, we look at the eu figures, does add up. But there seems to be a bit of a dispute over how much the we actually received after various deductions so looking at hansa rd data base of what was written, it was a statement from the minister in january 2017 and says the government, while they successfully received £52 million in 2016, the actual net benefit was only about 500,000 and that was due to various offsets, costs and rebates. So that one needs a little bit more digging. The doors open, come in. Hello. Have a seat and headphones, very important. Appreciate our new microphone covers as well. Im mariana, i am a reporter for bbc trending and we analyse viral posts and the content that people are seeing on social medium devoted to the election. Im jerry, also a reporter for bbc trending and a long term friend of the brexitcast. And this one of her new friends, sent in a voice memo with the question she has for us. I am victoria i am 20 years old and my question is, what is the biggest difference between our Political Parties using twitter compared to instagram, to engaging in young voters. We are conscious in the political bumper and instead of those obsessed with tweeting, we also this thought in our heads that says yes, but real people use other stuff, Facebook Instagram can say that. The extent to which that is true is intriguing. And another thing we noticed is that twitter is important but not in a way that you realise. There are screenshots of tweets that we have seen on facebook and facebook groups but also in instagram, so to answer her question, instagram status effective when it comes to Political Pages and it cannot be re shared in the same way or commented on it when i pop up in your feet quite feed in the same way. But lots of them are screen shotting their tweets so Jeremy Corbyns account has lots of those tweets and he has used lily allen used one of those screenshots to talk about education policy. She has got 1. 3 million followers so she is going to be reaching more people than potentially these specific instagram pages, you are more reliant on personalities. You are spending your election on the digital doorstep but enter into the good Old Fashioned newsletter. I present you with the box. What is the box . Outside the box, the ballot box emoji, is a new newsletter for bbc news and each one with a different topic. Its not necessarily about whats happened today, but the broad topic and this one is about the stuff people share oii one is about the stuff people share on facebook. The organic on line election. Not the party adverts, which there is coverage. Loads of polling stations and some interesting bbq expect bbc articles and ina interesting bbq expect bbc articles and in a few hundred words talking about what people are sharing on social media and you can subscribe if you google bbc collection outside the box. I am other colleagues will be writing and it will be a couple and towards the end, a bit more frequent. And those two tonight have gone to a pub to go and meetan two tonight have gone to a pub to go and meet an internetty person because they are chasing down an election scoop. They are like mulder and scully. Digital mulder and scully. Com. Trust no one. And scully. Digital mulder and scully. Com. Trust noone. Stop tonight . In canterbury. That was one of those big moments, the election where labour took a seat at the conservatives have held for yonks, which is my way of saying i cant remember how long. A tiny majority, 187 for rosie duffield. The lib dem candidate tim walker says he is standing down, what is the point, i will take votes from her, it will make it harder for will take votes from her, it will make it harderfor her to win. She is ofa make it harderfor her to win. She is of a similar out look on brexit and fears the conservatives could win the seat if he stands so he stood down. The beginnings of a pact between the lib dems and the labour party . No, because they will find somebody else by the time of the candidate deadline and will make sure once they have that candid deadline, all the candidates for that seat and any other will be on the bbc news website. Read redington has been in touch. I have a question for electioncast. 0f has been in touch. I have a question for electioncast. Of all the Musical Chairs and people being replaced, surely there must be some deadline where the ballot paper is locked in . When . Yes, there is a deadline. Its five oclock thursday this coming week. We will soon find out. As per the conversation yesterday, but the brexit party. The other thing tonight, Boris Johnson and the conservatives first Party Election broadcast which im told is donein election broadcast which im told is done in the style of vogue magazines 73 questions where they follow a celebrity around and ask them 73 questions. Borisjohnson is asked 12 questions. What do you do in the morning when you get up . He ta kes dyla n, in the morning when you get up . He takes dylan, the new dog, for a walk and a dylan. He is asked, do you like marmite . He says yes. Ive watched it many times. I was less busy than you. His favourite band, the clash or the Rolling Stones . Two very dad like choices. The thing thatis very dad like choices. The thing that is really controversial. People ofa that is really controversial. People of a political persuasion will find lots of things controversial but the one that normal people will find controversial is how he makes his tea. He goes into the kitchen at tory hq and makes a brew and he leaves the bag in it. I think id endorse that tea making strategy. Hes responded to those allegations tonight with a tweet saying, i like mighty strong, i leave the bargain. 0ne flippant point, somebody on social media says it looked like the camera was the equivalent of someone who charges you adjust the point you are going to the toilet, you want to go to the toilet. The broader point is intriguing, i wonder if this is an attempt by the conservatives to get this stop shared on social media because here we are talking about it, obviously embedded with all the chat about the dogs are political m essa 9 es chat about the dogs are political messages so its interesting. Good stuff. That is all for us tonight, if you want to listen to the pod cast, on bbc sounds, mission for electioncast and other great election content on the bbc website and all the bbc news programmes you know and love. Chris and i will be back tomorrow, see you then. Thanks for joining back tomorrow, see you then. Thanks forjoining us, good night. Hello once again. Hello again. After so much recent rainfall, wednesday offer something com pletely rainfall, wednesday offer something completely different for parts of the British Isles where you have a dry, crisp, sunny sort of day and it should stay dry for a greater part of the day to the west, a new set of front spring cloud and rain later on in the davis southern, and western areas. A run of showers, mild, dry start running to the south west of scotland, to the north west of england and onto the afternoon, you see those central and parts do stay dry and only through s only to the day but does not think temperatures, significant changes south west. Eventually clouding up in Northern Ireland and wales and there may well be the chance of a bit of snow falling across the moors of the south west, the Brecon Beacons as well and into the wee small hours of thursday, onto the day on thursday, to keep the rate coming to the southern counties and look at this, later on in the morning, a more significant area of rain perhaps further north, perilously close to the flood affected areas and thats why there are met obvious warnings about the intensity of this rain and the effect it might have on those flooded areas. Further north and west, it is a dry, fine david not overly warm. We dont change things very much as we get into friday. The front is weakening so what rain im showing you the most part through the day is light and patchy, running in on the day is light and patchy, running inona the day is light and patchy, running in on a cold north easterly wind from the north sea. What intense rainfall there is in the day may rock up later on across the very far south Eastern Court on what is again a day dominated by single figure temperatures. So here we are on into this first part of the weekend. Really nothing changes very much at all. The very still close to the south eastern quarter, wrapped around its northern and western blanks, still that weather front, quite a lot of cloud, a bleak, miserable sort of day, a lot of cloud around, little in the way of sunshine savour the northern part of scotla nd sunshine savour the northern part of scotland in the west of wales and again, on the cool side. There are no real signs of mild air rushing towards the British Isles including the weekend. Here we are on sunday, a sea of blue surrounds us with another cold day, a lot of cloud around, upfront moving in from the atlantic, fairly weak affair, rain for western scotland and Northern Ireland and the remnants of that whether front across those northern and central parts of england and wales. Welcome to bbc news, im mike embley. Our top stories in hong kong, as the violence intensifies, police say the rule of law is on the brink of total colla pse. Australia has escaped the worst feared impacts of the bushfires, but the threat still remains high, as more than 70 uncontained fires continue to burn in queensland and new south wales. Countdown to the next crucial phase of the impeachment inquiry. Washington braces for public hearings into the president s dealings with ukraine. The bolivian opposition senator jeanine anez declares herself interim president , as the former leader evo morales begins life in exile