to northern ireland must continue for now. rescuers are still desperately trying to reach a five year old boy who fell into a well near in morocco on tuesday. the conservatives have won the southend west by election, trigged by the fatal stabbing of the tory mp sir david amess. anna firth got a majority of more than 12,000. the seat was not contested by labour, the liberal democrats or the green party. just 24% of the electorate voted, making it one of the worst turnouts for a by election since the second world war. here s simon dedman. it s not a massive surprise that the conservatives held this seat with a large majority. there was no mainstream opposition, but the turnout was amongst the lowest of any westminster by election since world war two atjust 24%. and whilst that was down, the number of spoilt ballots was up. in fact, there were more of those than votes for the candidate that came second, the psychedelic movement. this is what the winner, anna firth, made of that. well, ith
highly skilled immigrants, highly skilled immigrants from 12% to 57%. why can t these democrats get on board with that? we currently bring in about 1 million immigrants each year, it is really only 10% of that we actually bring in to strengthen our economy and bring value. the other 90% are a bunch of other things so the resident s plan would shift that, 60%, 70%, people that would bring in strength to the economy. i have read the draft, it s a solid plan so the great question, nobody has put america s immigration plan on the table before. you heard people tonight say this is a good idea but when the president unrolled this idea the mainstream opposition in congress just said this is ridiculous, we don t want to do this, just not fair. some of the candidates list they were trending in that direction, why can t they just go ahead and support the plan
crimea. is there any legitimacy to the fact he s the president of ukraine. i think the russian view of what took place in kiev is a democratically elected president and gocvernment was deposed. right wing nationalists, mainstream opposition and ur mean governments, even united states, conspired together to arrange overthrow of the democratically elected president. that said, russia has given shelter to form eer president. no claim to support him that he is the one true elected leader of ukraine. so interesting because the paralympics are taking place in sochi starting friday. we ve got a lot of athletes in that region. quickly, any indication they are pulling out? nothing from the athletes so far but the british government
have been able to stop from going at each other. jenna: you tell some interesting anecdotes in your writing. one of them just recently you were talking about a restaurant around aleppo where there were some opposition forces, a different groups, all sort of sharing the same restaurant. rifles on the table. that the waiters were moving away so they could place food down for them to eat. i m wondering in that type of situation what the chatter is like about a u.s. military strike and what is the effect of this talk here in the united states on the ground in syria? well, that was a really interesting light lunch we had at that restaurant because as you could imagine the chattering of the u.s. strike was everywhere. the mainstream opposition were all for it. they were very enthusiastic about it, saying we haven t had help from an ally in good faith at any point in the last couple of years. let s bring it on. you, wish we could give americans targets to attack, including headquarters and
200,000 mainstream opposition. that s relatively moderate. but the problem is that mainstream opposition is resource hungry, they ve not been supported, and then off small minority extremists that is that have excellent resources. unless you tip this balance, i think the situation will continue to grow worse. so the argument i m hearing you make right now is an argument that sounds actually less something like what i hear the administration saying. but even more importantly, it sounds like the mccain argument, in the sense that not only should this be a limited set of strikes around saying, we will not use chemical weapons as a world global practice, but also that there is a potential to tip the balance towards moderate opposition forces? there is that potential, but i m going to respectfully disagree. it s not clear that the moderate opposition has the upper hand in the conflict right now. and this is an important issue. let s just assume we go in. we weaken the assad regime.