Charities is launching a Recruitment Drive for volunteers to help protect the native red squirrel. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is the favourite to succeed Claudio Ranieri at Leicester City. Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. It was, by any standards, a great result for the conservatives causing a major electoral upset by winning the long held labour seat of copeland in cumbria. Their Candidate Beat Labour by more than 2,000 votes. Its the first time a governing party has gained a seat at a by election since 1982. In the nights other by election, labour held stoke on Trent Central holding off the challenge of the ukip leader paul nuttall. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn says the partys win in stoke was a decisive rejection of ukips Politics Of Division but he says their message was not enough to win through in copeland. 0ur political correspondent, carole walker, reports. Harrison, trudy. The Conservative Party cand
The half brother of north koreas leader was killed by a substance classified as a weapon of mass destruction, according to malaysian authorities. Leicester city say Player Revolt wasnt behind Claudio Ranieris sacking. Gary lineker calls the move gut wrenching. I shed a tear. I shed a tearfor claudio, i shed a tear for football and i shed a tearfor my club. And in the film review well get Jason Solomons take on patriots day, the Hollywood Blockbuster based on the Boston Marathon bombing. It was by any standards a great result for the conservatives, causing an electoral upset by winning the long held labour seat of copeland in cumbria. Their Candidate Beat Labour by more than 2000 votes. Its the first time a governing party has gained a seat at a by election since 1982. In the nights other by election, labour held stoke on Trent Central holding off the challenge of the ukip leader paul nuttall. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn says the partys win in stoke was a decisive rejection of ukips
instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russia s the biggest. the second largest is kazakhstan. and if there is one thing that s maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u.s. had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking nuclear weapons over there once that country spun apart. kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had just held on to the nuclear weapons that they had on their territory once they became an independent country, they would have become the fourth largest nuclear armed state in the world. but they decided when they became independent that they did not want nuclear weapons. they had tons of them, but they voluntarily gave up all of those nuclear weapons. they gave up being a nucl
states helping mexico get its highly enriched uranium taken out of that country, so it wouldn t end up on the black market and turn into a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb somewhere down the road. we do this kind of work of locking down all this dangerous stuff all over the world. it is an international problem, but it is one that has our name on it. and not because it s our fault, not because we caused this problem, but because we have taken the lead role in fixing it. american exceptionalism, yes, on this issue, we have shown exceptional world leadership. and it has redounded do our own safety and to the safety of the world. and it is not exactly the same thing with chemical weapons as compared to nuclear weapons, but it is close. turns out we are particularly great at destroying chemical weapons. in part because we ve had so much practice. we had so many chemical weapons that we have destroyed that we ve gotten good at it. president richard nixon is the one who stopped us making chemica
there s never actually been a challenge inspection in the whole history of enforcing this thing on chemical weapons, but there could be one here. we re on new ground here. can the goal in syria be reached? and the obama administration has been saying for the last three weeks, since that alleged gas attack outside damascus, that its main goal, its immediate goal, is to stop any further use of chemical weapons in syria. regardless of the long-term challenges here, is that short-term goal of stopping syria from using chemical weapons, is that short-term goal already achieved? based in part on what happened today? joining us now is ben rhodes. he s a deputy national security adviser for president obama. mr. rhodes, thank you very much for being here tonight. it s nice to have you here. good to be with you, rachel. so a lot of the focus right now, a lot of the commentary on what s happening in this diplomatic push is how hard it s going to be to make sure that syria does this, that they