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Another night of celebration for Nigel Farage and UKIP. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
His party wins the European election vote in Britain and almost doubles | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The People's Army had spoken tonight. And delivered just about | :00:12. | :00:25. | |
the most extraordinary result we have seen in British politics for | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
100 years. But Nigel's night turned into | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Nick Clegg's nightmare as the Liberal Democrats lost all | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
but one of their MEPs. It was also a good night for right | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
wing parties across much of Europe with Marie Le Pen's Front Nationale | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
topping the polls in France. We'll be looking at the impact | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
of what was a night of voting against the established | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
parties across Europe. Also | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
on the programme this lunchtime. Petro Poroshenko claims victory | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
in the Presidential election in Ukraine and says he'll take | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
a tough line with Russia over And on the final day of his | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Middle East tour the Pope visits Yad Vashem, Israel's | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
national Holocaust memorial. It's another day of celebration | :01:03. | :01:23. | |
for the UK Independence Party, this time after securing historic | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
success in the European elections. They've nearly doubled | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
their number of members Leader Nigel Farage said the | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
people's army of UKIP had spoken. The results saw some gains | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
for Labour, But the big losers were the | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
Liberal Democrats. Not all the results are in, | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
but here they are so far: Overall UKIP achieved a 28% share | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
of the vote resulting in 23 MEPs Labour attracted a 25% share | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
and 18 MEPs. The Conservatives suffered | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
a hit though with 24% and 18 MEPs. The Greens achieved an 8% share | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
and three MEPs. But the Liberal Democrat vote | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
was reduced to just 7% and they Here's our Political Correspondent, | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Ross Hawkins. UK Independence Party, 428,010. They | :02:16. | :02:33. | |
piled up the votes and the victories. Miserable opponents, | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
cheering UKIP, time after time. And the party leader who says he is | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
making history. The People's Army have UKIP have spoken tonight and | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
delivered just about the most extraordinary result we have seen in | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
British politics for 100 years. And I am proud to have led them to that. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Compare that with a fate in the faces of Liberal Democrats who only | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
just avoided being wiped off the road map, their leader, Nick Clegg, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
chosen to debate Nigel Farage only to be trounced at the elections and | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
some are questioning his leadership and considering who could replace | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
him. Decided quickly for them given the scale of the losses, to call for | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
business as usual is frankly ludicrous. We genuinely have to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
reflect very hard, very quickly, make some good decisions and get on | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
the 2050 elections in better shape. Although senior Lib Dems insist Nick | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Clegg will stay. I'm wholly opposed to those calls for the Nick Clegg | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
has got the resilience and courage to take the party to the next ten | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
months, to the general election, and beyond. Labour won more votes and | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
MEPs last time competing the Conservatives, but only just and | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
they, like everyone else, wondering what to do about UKIP. I think many | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
people voting for UKIP are saying we are discontented with the way the | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
country works and asking whether politics can answer that. It all | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
left the Conservatives trailing in third place. I think the results | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
show a very clear message which is people are disillusioned with the | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
European Union, the way it's working, and the way it's working | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
for Britain. I want change for the challenge now is for my party to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
demonstrate that we have a plan to deliver that change. The European | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
elections haven't told us who will win a general election for the Bath | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Road, most people didn't vote. They have shown that all other parties at | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Westminster have got a UKIP problem and they have all got people in | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
their own ranks saying they have to make changes if they are going to | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
solve it. And as they worry, there's anyone leader who can read the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
morning papers with any satisfaction. | :04:46. | :04:57. | |
And in the last half hour they've announced the European Election | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Let's cross to our Scotland political Editor Brian Taylor who's | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
The SNP have topped the poll and they are delighted, saying it's | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
remarkable victory. Why are they not entirely delighted? As one insider | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
said privately, it's a beta three to victory. They have slightly lost | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
voting shares in Scotland. -- bittersweet victory. Secondly, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
because in the last week or so of campaigning, Alex Salmond declared | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
his intention would be for the SNP to take three seats rather than two | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
they currently hold and as a consequence, he will squeeze UKIP | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
out of Scotland but that is not happened so, the expectation was | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
created of the UK Independence party being kept out that's not the case. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
It seems like a difficulty, challenge for the SNP. They are | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
absolutely adamant that topping the poll is what counts and Nicola | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Sturgeon says there is a world of difference now continuing between | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
the Scottish voting pattern and that of England. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Well our Political Editor Nick Robinson is at Westminster for us. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
How does the impact on the general election less than a year away go? | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Nobody knows exactly how it will impact on the general election. We | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
know it impacts on politics now as each other parties worry about how | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
they will do in a general election. The Conservatives are having to | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
confront the fact that for the first time in their history, they are | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
third in national election. Having offered a European referendum and | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the promise of renegotiation, they still have come third in still not | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
persuaded those UKIP supporters to come home. What they are trying to | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
do, though, is to say when it comes to a choice between David Cameron | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
and Ed Miliband, offering a referendum or not, they will get | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
those voters back. Ed Miliband, pleased to come second, but it's | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
only second. These become second, but only 1% above the Tories in the | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
voting. With people in his own party worrying he is simply not good | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
enough one year from the general election. His answer is to try to | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
say to voters, who went for UKIP, that he is the answer to their | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
concerns that somehow society and the economy is not working for them | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
and interestingly, he will go to Essex tomorrow to make that case. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Nick Clegg has two shake his head and say let's hope it gets better. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
There's not a lot more he can say. Nick Robinson, thank you very much. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Across the rest of Europe there was also a reaction | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
In France, the far-right Front Nationale topped the polls and in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Greece voters sent an anti-austerity message to Brussels with a socialist | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Chris Morris now, on a night that saw people protest against | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
In a country that has always been right at the heart of the European | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
ideal, she won. Marie Le Pen's campaign was anti-European Union, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
anti-immigration, anti-globalisation. And it struck a | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
chord. TRANSLATION: This evening I thank | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the French people. The sovereign people have spoken clearly, like in | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
all great moments of history. Against all those who no longer | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
believe in France. The sovereign French people say they want to take | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
their destiny into their own hands. As a result came in through the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
night, the picture was mixed. The populist anti-EU right also did well | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
in Denmark but not in the Netherlands. In Germany, mainstream | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
parties won the day. Pro-European MEPs will be the dominant force in | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
the next Parliament. There will be real extremists there, too. Like the | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
neo-Nazis in Greece. But the winners in Greece were not from the far | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
right but from the anti-austerities radical left. A different | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
antiestablishment vote. The leader spoke of an historic day for the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
left despite what he called the unprecedented propaganda of fear. It | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
could make for a more lively and robust European Parliament. One | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
thing is important to remember. Antiestablishment doesn't | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
necessarily mean anti-EU. Parties in Greece want the EU to do more, not | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
less, to help their countries. But there will be pending opposition | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
here to politics as usual. Mainstream parties would do well to | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
take that on board. It is likely that they will, but what extent? | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Many still want to forge ahead close integration. I think now the | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
mainstream parties will have to address the accountability of | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Brussels, start to address having to roll powers back to national | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
capitals, and they will have to think about what to do about the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Fremont -- free movement of people. The parties on the right rough to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
respond to the radical right parties all across Europe. That could mean a | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
chance for those like David Cameron, who want to reform the EU. But | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
alliances have to be forged here, and no one will have it all their | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
own way. Let's speak to our Correspondent | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
in Paris Christian Fraser. Is there a sense of shock at last | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
nights result? Yes, it was a disastrous night for the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Socialists, taking just 14% of the boat, their worst ever performance | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
in a European election. Let's show you how about its effect on the | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
morning papers. Earthquake in French. You consider beaming Marie | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Le Pen, leader of the far right there. The bark of the socialist | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
party continues. The left-wing newspaper, it really was a seismic | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
performance for the Front Nationale. They won 70%. They took the bulk of | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
the working class vote and a third of the vote for the under 35 's, so | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
shocked with the Socialists, they called an emergency Cabinet meeting | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
this morning and the Prime Minister is on his way to the prime meeting | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
and says they will try to cut income tax for low income families. Yes, | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
the backlash against Europe but I think it's also the culmination of | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the frustration and disappointment in two years of Francois Hollande's | :11:37. | :11:37. | |
presidency. Thank you very much. And just | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
a reminder that you can find out about those results in more detail | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
by visiting bbc.co.uk/VOTE2014. The billionaire Petro Poroshenko has | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
claimed victory in Ukraine's presidential election, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
and promised to restore peace Russia says it is open to dialogue | :11:54. | :11:54. | |
with the new president However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Lavrov said military action must end Our correspondent Daniel | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Sandford is in Kiev. A few hours into his new job and the | :12:02. | :12:17. | |
fall in tray. Yes, everything seemed to be going quite well for Petro | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Poroshenko after three months of street fighting here in Kiev. Three | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
months of a country not having effectively any president. In which | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
time it's lost Crimea. This morning we had results which looked pretty | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
good. Three quarters of the vote counted for the more than 50% of the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
people voted for Petro Poroshenko, the chocolate billionaire. His | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
opponents effectively conceded defeat even brush and the former | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
president Victor D'Amico vitch said they would accept the results of the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
elections and when Petro Poroshenko said he wanted to have talks with | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Russia about eastern Ukraine, Russia responded positively but at the same | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
time, this morning, at the main international airport in the east, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
armed rebels took over the buildings. There were air strikes by | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
the Ukrainian government air force against those rebels and there was | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
absolutely no sign of the moment the armed men in eastern Ukraine want | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
anything to do with talks with the new president. Daniel, thank you. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Pope Francis has visited the most important holy sites for Muslims and | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Jews in Jerusalem's Old City on the final day of his Middle East tour. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
At the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Pope urged people | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
of all religions to work together for justice and peace. | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
He then prayed at the Western Wall, which lies just beneath it, bowing | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Quentin Sommervile reports from Jerusalem. | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
The final day of the Pope 's visit the holy land and this was Israel's | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
day. He visited its most sacred places including here, the Holocaust | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Memorial Yad Vashem. Pope Francis placed a wreath on the crypt and | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
within lively ashes of those who perished in Nazi extermination | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
camps. -- within it. Never again, Lord, never again. As the Israeli | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
president looked on, the announced -- denounced the Nazi genocide. He | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
said it was an unfathomable abyss. He then visited the Western Wall. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Like millions of others, he left here with a message for God, written | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
in Spanish. The prayer, our father. The Pope has placed his prey in a | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
gap in the Western Wall. He is visiting today Judaism and Israel's | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
most holy and sacred places. But that image of a solitary figure | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
standing in praying there has already been overshadowed. This will | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
be the abiding image of the Pope's trip. One which is thrilled | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Palestinians and infuriated Israelis. The Vatican said this tour | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
was about religion and politics here is unavoidable. We all knew that | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
there were going to be political angles and all sides will try to | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
make political capital out of it. He is thrown himself into this trip and | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
into the one of the world 's most difficult problems for the Middle | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
East peace. With that, you may not achieve much, but here, please come | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
his left a deep impression that Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
UKIP has won the European election vote in Britain. | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
It's almost doubled its number of MEPs in Europe. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
Now on BBC One it's time for the news where you are. | :15:50. | :15:54. |