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Another celebration for Nigel Farage as UKIP win the European elections | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
in Britain. They top the polls and nearly double their number of MEPs, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
winning seats in England, Wales and one in Scotland. This party has done | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
something that hasn't been done for one in Scotland. This party has done | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
over 100 years, we have won a national election in this country | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
and I am immensely proud of pro-Europe Liberal Democrats lose | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists calls to | :00:42. | :00:41. | |
all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists anything would really be | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists any of our real | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists changing strategy, changing | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
approaches, bailing out now, changing direction, then I wouldn't | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
hesitate advocating it. Across Europe there are votes against the | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
established parties - Marine Le Pen and the National Front triumph in | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
France. We'll be looking at how the political map of Europe has been | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
redrawn. Also tonight: Fierce fighting in | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
eastern Ukraine as Petro Also tonight: Fierce fighting in | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
claims victory in the Presidential election - he promises | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
claims victory in the Presidential with Russia about his country's | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
future. And Pope Francis closes his tour of | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
the Middle East and visits And Pope Francis closes his tour of | :01:19. | :01:30. | |
Jerusalem's most sacred sites. Later on BBC London, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Jerusalem's most sacred sites. Later Lib Dems in the capital? And a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
chance to walk under the river as the Thames Tunnel opens as a | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
one-off. Good evening. It's been another day | :01:41. | :02:00. | |
of celebration for the UK Independence Party, after securing | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
an historic success in the European elections. The party has almost | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
doubled its members in the European Parliament. Its leader, Nigel | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Farage, said the "people's army of UKIP" had spoken and is now looking | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
to Westminster. The results saw gains for Labour, and losses for the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Conservatives. But the big losers were the Liberal Democrats. These | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
are the results. Overall UKIP achieved a 27% share of the vote, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
resulting in 24 MEPs being elected. Labour attracted a 25% share, and 20 | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
MEPs, up on last time. But the Conservatives suffered a hit, with | :02:38. | :02:52. | |
24% and 19 MEPs. The Greens have three MEPs. The SNP got a 2% share, | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
with two members of the European Parliament. But the Liberal Democrat | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
vote was reduced to just 7% and they lost all but one of their MEPs. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
We'll be hearing from Nick Clegg in a moment, but first our Deputy | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Political Editor, James Landale, on UKIP'S victory. His report contains | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
some flash photography. This is the smile of a man who knows he has just | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
made history, a man whose party is turning British politics upside | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
down. These are the men and women helping him doing it, the 24 MEPs | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
elected by more than 4 million people. The voters that Nigel Farage | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
calls people's army. They looked like goldfish tipped out of the | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
goldfish bowl onto the floor, gasping for air and clinging onto | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
the comfort blanket which is, this is a process vote -- protest vote | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
but it is looking like a permanent protest. UKIP could even hold the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
balance of power in another coalition. If you think you have | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
seen the high watermark of UKIP, you have not seen nothing yet. Across | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the country, UKIP won MEPs in England, Wales and Scotland, gaining | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
more votes and seats than any other party, the first time in a century | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
that any other party then Labour and Tories has won a UK wide election. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
But these faces told a different story, the price of UKIP's success | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
was paid in part by Liberal Democrat failure, the party losing all but | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
one of its MPs -- MEPs. If you carry on doing the same thing... Look at | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
the expression of Danny Alexander, as a leading Lib Dem called on Nick | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Clegg to resign. One of the fundamental problems is a section of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
the electorate are not listening to Nick Clegg at the moment. It is | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
sad, undeserved, and maybe the media are partly responsible but we have | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
got to deal with the world as we have got it. Labour won more votes | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
and seats than last time, adding another seven MEPs to their number | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
but they came second just ahead of the Tories, and some MEPs were | :05:23. | :05:34. | |
worried. We beat the Tories in the European elections, we were making | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
gains in some of the key seats we need to win the general election so | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Labour is making process. Some Labour prompted clarity from their | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
leader. He will have to be much clearer in what a Labour government | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
will do, spell it out in precise detail, and have a much more easily | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
accessible narrative. Despite promising an in-out EU referendum, | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
the Conservatives lost votes and seats across the board, coming third | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
in a UK wide election to the first time in their history. It is nice to | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
know our vote held up. This is that that is keeping some Tory rebels | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
quiet, at least for now. Many had expected worse, they hope to win | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
UKIP votes back at the next election. It is a clear message that | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
people are deeply disillusioned with the European Union and the weight is | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
working for Britain, and they want change. The challenge is for my | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
party to demonstrate that we have a plan to deliver that. The Green | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
party might have had time on its hands but the waiting was worth it, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
coming forth with an extra MEP to its name. The BNP caused the usual | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
force at Viscount and bear MEPs were soundly defeated. The election | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
belonged to only one party, and the shock waves will be felt for some | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
time. UKIP is a party on the ascendance, tonight they are | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
celebrating their success. The question is how many people who | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
voted for them this time we'll do the same next year for the general | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
election? Well, as we've been hearing, voters | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
deserted the Liberal Democrats in large numbers. Some MPs and | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
activists have questioned whether Nick Clegg should now lead them into | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
the General Election less than a year away. He was the last of the | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
main party leaders to respond to the result, but this afternoon he came | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
out fighting. He's been speaking to our Political Correspondent, Vicki | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
Young. As political strategies go, this one was high risk and four Nick | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Clegg the gamble has not paid off. He went head-to-head with the UKIP | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
leader laying out his pro-European views, the result was humiliating | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
defeat. Today the agony was etched on his face, exhausted and pale, he | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
looks like a man who had been up all night considering his future but he | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
said it hadn't crossed his mind to resign. I am never going to put | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
myself ahead of the Liberal Democrats and the interests of the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
country. If I thought that anything would be really solved, any of our | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
real dilemmas would be addressed, by changing leadership, changing | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
strategy, changing approach, bailing out now, then I wouldn't hesitate | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
advocating it. For the man with a Dutch mother and Spanish wife who | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
speaks five languages, the European project is personal. He began his | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
career as an MEP, many of those who lost their seats last night were | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
long-standing colleagues. It is heartbreaking, frankly, to see | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Liberal Democrat candidates, councillors, members of the European | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Parliament, many of whom are old colleagues and friends of mine, | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
losing their seats in this way. I am asking you to vote for the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Liberal Democrats, the party of in. His appeal for an open-minded | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Britain has largely fallen on deaf ears. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
You have lost thousands of councillors, do you think it could | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
get worse to know that what goes up goes down, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
and what goes down goes up. to know that what goes up goes down, | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
really difficult time. We didn't win the argument but we have got to | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
stick to the values that brought me into politics. Some Lib Dems have | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
openly called for the Business Secretary Vince Cable | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
openly called for the Business In a statement he said there was no | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
leadership issue of In a statement he said there was no | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
hold its nerve. So far no senior figures have | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
hold its nerve. So far no senior Clegg to resign but several Lib Dems | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
I have spoken to want a change of direction. One MP said | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
I have spoken to want a change of had to do more to get his message | :10:07. | :10:07. | |
across. Another former minister said Nick Clegg had adopted a bunker | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
mentality, but so far at least they don't agree a new leader would make | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
much difference. Let's speak to our Political Editor, | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
Nick Robinson, who's at Westminster. An historic night, but does it | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
really change things for British politics? Listen to UKIP and they | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
would have you believe it does. They style themselves as the people's | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
army, they talk of mounting a coup against the political establishment. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Nigel Farage's deputy today said this was the most exciting | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Nigel Farage's deputy today said British politics since the creation | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
of the Labour Party more years ago. Moving in on Westminster | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
will prove harder than moving in on Strasbourg and Brussels. That is | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
because more people vote in a general election and they take their | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
vote more seriously. The voting general election and they take their | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
system is a tougher nut to crack for smaller parties and he will | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
system is a tougher nut to crack for able to simply bang on about Europe | :11:10. | :11:09. | |
and immigration. They able to simply bang on about Europe | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
talk about issues like the NHS, in able to simply bang on about Europe | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
which the deputy leader says he is in favour of privatising large | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
which the deputy leader says he is of the national health service. You | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
saw in Nick Clegg's eyes in the previous report the sign of a | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
saw in Nick Clegg's eyes in the and a party leader that is | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
desperate, that doesn't know what to do next. You can hear the fear that | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
people are moving in on their traditional heartlands, and you | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
sense among Tory MPs, what do we do now to try to woo those people back? | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
UKIP may never get power, but they have sure got the power to disrupt. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Thank you for now. UKIP's success wasn't universal. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Although it did gain one MEP in Scotland, the party won a far | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
smaller share of the vote. Let's speak to our correspondent Allan | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
Little, who's in Edinburgh. Allan, who is claiming the most comfort | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
from the voting in Scotland? UKIP are absolutely delighted of course. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
They were not on the political map here until today. Alex Salmond said | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
they would not win, they were not welcome and they would be squeezed | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
out, he was proved wrong. Scotland is very different to the rest of the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
UK. UKIP came forth here, they did not get close to 30%, they got 10%, | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
so Nigel Farage has not done to the mainstream parties in Scotland what | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
he has done to them in England and Wales. Scotland's result looks more | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
like that of Germany, it was the governing party, the SNP, strongly | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
pro-EU that came the top of the polls and this will enable the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Nationalists to argue that they are not the real separatists, they are | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
not the real isolationists, and if you want to make sure of staying in | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the EU you had better think about voting for independence in | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
September. Thank you. So, with UKIP gaining a 27% share of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the vote, where did the party pick up most of their support? Jeremy | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Vine looks in more detail at how these results compare to previous | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
European elections in the UK, and further afield in Europe. A huge | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
election across 28 countries but let's look at the dramatic events in | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
the UK. This is the map last time in 2009. Labour under Gordon Brown | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
pinned back to the north-east. The Scottish Nationalists painting | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Scotland yellow, elsewhere it is Conservative blue. Let's look at the | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
map after the 2014 election, and how dramatic change is this? UKIP | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
purple, Scottish Nationalists yellow in Scotland and laboured also doing | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
very well in London but the UKIP advance is extraordinary. If I | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
narrowed down the map and show areas where parties came first in the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
local council you can see there is a lot of blue here, but where it | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
flashes to show which parties came first this time but not last time, | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
there is so much flashing purple where UKIP has advanced, a truly | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
brilliant night for Nigel Farage's party. Let's see how many MEPs each | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
party is left with. UKIP now have 24 members of the European Parliament, | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
second-place Labour with 20, the Conservatives had 26 last time, down | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
to 19. The Greens have three, a good night for them, and a catastrophic | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
evening for the Liberal Democrats, down to just one, then we have the | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
others, the nationalists among them. All over Europe voters were | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
standing up trying to make a point of the establishment. In France, the | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
grey shows the National Front coming first, and in the south-east of | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Europe, here we have Greece where the deep red represents a hard left | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
party which suddenly surged. Across Europe, we saw traditional parties | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
being punished by outsiders. As we've just seen, across the rest | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
of Europe, there was also a reaction against the major parties. In | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
France, the far-right National Front topped the polls. And in Greece, | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
voters sent an anti-austerity message to Brussels, as a Socialist | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Party won there. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt reports on a night that | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
saw people protest against the established European order. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
For the far-right Front Nationale, it was a night of clinking glasses. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
And celebrations. Afterwards, party leader Marine Le Pen went to a bar | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
with family and friends. But her victory left France and much of | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Europe in shock. This morning, President Hollande summoned | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
ministers to a crisis meeting. Afterwards, the French Prime | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Minister declared, Europe remains a magnificent project. The election | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
has left France divided. TRANSLATION: If she's pulled 25%, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
that means there is a need, so let's give her a chance. Everything which | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
is unpleasant is attributed to Europe so it's necessarily leading | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
the people to vote for the extremes. It wasn't just here in France that | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
anti-establishment parties topped the poll. It happened also in | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Greece, but there, the party came from the radical left, and the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
issue, five years of austerity. In Greece, the victory belonged to | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the radical left. To a party which opposed cuts in exchange for | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
bailouts. Its leader said, the whole of Europe was watching Greece | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
because it had resisted austerity. And he called for fresh elections. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
The party's success may make it harder to implement unpopular | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
reforms. In Spain, the two mainstream parties each lost a third | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
of their European seats. A new left-wing party borne out of street | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
protest against cuts and inequality unexpectedly won five seats. | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
TRANSLATION: The main message I want to send to Europe is that we don't | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
want to be a German colony. We don't want to be a colony of the European | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
troika. We don't want our young to serve beers and tapas to the rich of | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Northern Europe. We don't want to provide cheap labour, we don't want | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
to simply hand over our country's industry. We want a sovereign | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
country with dignity and a future. Across Europe, it is mainly the | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
anti-establishment and Eurosceptic parties that have made the big | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
gains, a result that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, regrets. | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
I think that the rise of right-wing populist parties is remarkable and | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
regrettable, said the German Chancellor. Now it is up to us to | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
win back voters here and especially in France. Marine Le Pen has shaken | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
French and European politics but still a majority of members of the | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
European Parliament will come from mainstream parties. But back further | :18:39. | :18:51. | |
European integration. And just a reminder that you can | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
find out about those results in more detail by visiting | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
bbc.co.uk/vote2014. Our top story this evening: | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
UKIP has won the European elections in Britain, almost doubling the | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
number of its MEPs. And still to come, after today's | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
results, just what is our attitude to our European neighbours across | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
the water? Later on BBC London: | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
Full coverage of the European and local elections, as the Lib Dems | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
lose out in the capital. And a full weather forecast for the | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
week to come. In Ukraine, the billionaire Petro | :19:22. | :19:33. | |
Poroshenko, who made his fortune from chocolate, has claimed victory | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
in the presidential election, and promised to restore peace and unity | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
to the country. Within hours of that pledge, fierce fighting broke out | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
for the control of Donetsk Airport in the East, after armed pro-Russia | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
separatists raided the building. Mark Lowen has sent this report from | :19:51. | :19:51. | |
Donetsk. Mark Lowen has sent this report from | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
An assault from the air met by gunfire from below. Ukrainian jets | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
sent into Donetsk Airport, seized by rebels this morning. A surprise | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
attack prompting a long battle for control. Machine guns roaring, as we | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
were forced back. There has been control. Machine guns roaring, as we | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
sustained gunfire here, as jets and helicopters have flown into Donetsk | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Airport, and it seems as though they've been hit by anti-aircraft | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
fire, bursts, successively in the last few minutes. | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
Soon, the impact of the firefight became clear, smoke consuming the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
airport. Kiev calls it an anti-terror operation against those | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
carving out an independent state in the East. The airport had been | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
blocked off since pro-Russian separatists arrived overnight | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
demanding Ukrainian forces leave the terminal. The stand-off inside was | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
peaceful, negotiations under way, when it seemed lost patience. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
peaceful, negotiations under way, Kiev lost patience. Soon, the | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
separatists turned up, heavily armed reinforcements taking up position. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
They had to be quick to dodge the bullets. It seems that a | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
counteroffensive by the rebels may be under way. That truckload of | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
troops has just arrived, the gunfire has started again. Potentially the | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
separatist groups have come together again and are trying to head back up | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
to the airport. For the man who appears to have won yesterday's | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
presidential election, a stark reminder of what he faces. But | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
presidential election, a stark Poroshenko vowed a tough line on the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
insurgents. The terrorists also don't have any interest to | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
insurgents. The terrorists also with Ukraine. The Ukrainian | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
authorities. They don't have any interest to speak with nobody. The | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
same way like Somalian pirates. In no civilised country of the world, | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
nobody has a negotiating with terrorists. We are a civilised | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
country. As the rebels regroup, Kiev stands firm. Ukraine's new leader | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
says peace must prevail here. How far away it still seems. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
The Pope has visited the most important holy sites for Muslims and | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Jews in Jerusalem's Old City. On the final day of his tour of the Middle | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
East, Pope Francis went to the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where he | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
urged people of all religions to work together for justice and peace. | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
He then prayed at the Western Wall. Here's our Middle East editor Jeremy | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
Bowen. Taking shoes on and off when you | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
visit an Islamic building is a conventional sign of respect, but | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
when a Pope does it at the Dome of the Rock, the great Muslim shrine | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
injuries and, it is more than that. And every day of this trip, he has | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
made carefully calibrated justice to deliver messages. At the Western | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Wall, the holiest place in the world where Jews can pray, he touched the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
stones and then follow tradition by placing his own prayer between them. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
24 hours earlier, the Pope chose the same symbolic gesture at the barrier | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
Israel has built to separate Bethlehem from drizzle. The | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
Palestinians took that as his silent condemnation of the apartheid. Next, | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
the memorial to Jews who died in an attack in Argentina, the Pope's own | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
country. Binyamin Netanyahu, is well's Prime Minister, delivered his | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
comment of why this was essential as a barrier. We have saved thousands | :23:31. | :23:39. | |
because we have this. TRANSLATION: Please, no terrorism | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
any more. And then the probe reached out with the same gesture he had | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
used at the walls and is slim and Bethlehem. Next up, is raw's | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
memorial to the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, often after | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
they had been transported to death camps in cattle trucks. -- Israel's | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
memorial. The Pope said he was ashamed of what man was capable of | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
doing as he paid respect to those who died in the column was. This is | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
radio leg is as important to his Middle East peace initiative as his | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
time with Palestinians. -- this Israeli leg. Now he has got to show | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
the Israelis that he takes their concerns equally seriously as he has | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
shown his support for the Palestinian independence. Or his | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
attempt will have no support at all. Gestures will not end the conflict | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
here. But they can change the atmosphere, which, at the moment, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
would be more than anyone else has managed. | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
Now we return to our main story, the European election results. What has | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
UKIP's success told us about our relationship with our neighbours | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
across the channel? Have we had enough of Europe, and are we now | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
looking to retreat back to our British Isles? As part of a | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
continuing series about the nature of Britain, our home editor Mark | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
Easton has travelled to Hastings in East Sussex and asks, who do we | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
think we are? We are country shaped by waves. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Waves of European migrants landing on our shores over thousands of | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
years. But relations with our continental cousins have always been | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
strained. When William conquered near Hastings, like every foreign | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
force before and after, he could never win the battle for hearts and | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
minds. If they had had clipboards and those pens you hang around your | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
neck, the Normans would probably have the Gaucher today bulk | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
purchase. The Domesday book allowed them to impose foreign thinking on | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
the governance of these islands, and ever since, the British have | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
maintained a profound distrust of Eurocrats. Anxieties about the EU | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
and what some see as a new wave of European invaders partly explain the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
UKIP surge. But does our ambivalent attitude to Brussels disguise the | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
country becoming more European in its culture and daily life? We used | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
to think Europe was better, it has better food, better football, but we | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
have managed would opt all that and we think, people can come to us. As | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
part of the BBC's Who Do We Think We Are project, do we feel more or less | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
connected with our European neighbours? A net score of plus 3% | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
in terms of feeling connected. But it hides a divided nation. The | :26:42. | :26:53. | |
connection seems to be weaker among the poor, tabloid newspaper readers | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
and those without qualifications. You enjoy a bit of French pate and | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
all that sort of thing. Your attitude will be different than if | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
you don't, if you aren't educated and you don't travel or work in a | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
more traditional industry. And that is a gulf now clear in Britain. Four | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
decades ago, when we belatedly and rather reluctantly joined the | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
European Common market, many saw Great Britain as the poor relation | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
of the sophisticated continentals, with their fancy cheese, flash cars | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
and fine wines. Now, the UK is the destination of choice for Europeans | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
seeking a better life. Personally I am more European. Are you? | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Absolutely! As in I go and visit Europe a lot, I spend a lot of time | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
there. I love Europe. I think we are drifting away from Europe. We have | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
to be now, don't we? We have all being hypocrites when it came to | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Europe anyway. We would withdraw when things get a bit tough. We are | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
more continental than we would like to let on, but whether we welcome or | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
resent the consequences of that will depend on how we view globalisation. | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
As an opportunity or a threat. Let's go back to our political | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
editor Nick Robinson, on a momentous day for British politics. Today has | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
felt like a rejection of Europe, both here and on the continent. | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
Gas, for decades, there was a simple rule in British politics. -- yes. | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
Stand up for Brussels and you were doomed for failure. Yet it feels | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
here in the UK and across Europe, that change with these results | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
today. -- that changed. Tonight, leaders meet in Brussels to talk | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
about how to respond, and the Prime Minister has a relief in calling his | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
colleagues to say, you do message of the ballot box. And the question | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
here and there is, what exactly does that mean? Europe's leaders willing | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
to change? Will they? Can they? Thank you. That is all from us for | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
this evening. It is good night from | :29:07. | :29:07. |