26/05/2014 Newsround


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Jenny here, live with all the big stories this

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Surprise results in the European Elections, and what they could mean.

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Plus, the pricey pool that's had a pretty impressive makeover.

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Let's start with the results coming in from the European Elections.

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The headlines are that the UK Independence Party has so far

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won more seats than Britain's traditional big parties, something

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Votes are still being counted in Scotland and Northern Ireland,

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but UKIP's leader Nigel Farage has already described the results

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as "the most extraordinary in a hundred years."

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The BBC's Political Correspondent Chris Mason joins us now to explain

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A huge election across 28 countries, but let us look at the dramatic

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events across the UK. The map last time in 2009. Labour under Gordon

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Brown pinned back to the north-east. The Scottish Nationalists apart

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Brown pinned back to the north-east. painting Scotland yellow. Let us

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mark the map and the colours that was left by the 2014 European

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election and how dramatic changes was left by the 2014 European

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this. UKIP purple all over was left by the 2014 European

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north-west, the north-east, Scottish National Party lowland Scotland and

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Labour doing very well as well in London. Let us count each MEP and

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see how many each party is left with. UKIP now has 24 members, in

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second place, waiver, with 20. The Conservatives had 26 last time, they

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are down to 19 full top the Greens are in fourth place on the three, a

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good night for them. The Liberal Democrats are just down to one.

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Chris, how big of a deal is this for UKIP? Good morning. It is a huge

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deal for the UK Independence Party, because pretty much in the last

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couple of years they have come almost from nowhere and here they

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are, winning a national election, beating the big parties, the

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Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats. They want UKIP to

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take Britain out of what is known as the European Union, a club of 28

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countries that Britain has been a member of four a good number of

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years. This result makes that possibility at some stage a bit more

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likely. What does this mean for the UK's main political parties? It

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means a real head scratch this morning. What else to do about these

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new kids on the block, what can they learn about how UKIP have done? What

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does it mean for the Liberal Democrats? It was a terrible night,

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they lost almost all of their members of European Parliament. For

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the Conservatives and Labour it was very close. They just managed to

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meet the Conservatives, but not by much. The general election next

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year, it will be very close indeed. In other news, American President

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Barack Obama made a surprise Forces have been in the country

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for more than 10 years but are due Obama told soldiers that

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the war there could come to He's trying to agree a deal to

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keep a small amount of troops there to train Afghan security forces to

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keep the peace in future. In sport, the rivalry between Lewis

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Hamilton and team-mate Nico Rosberg has been hotting up. Lewis Hamilton

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refused to comment on their feud after the race. You'll mark what is

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it that is making you feel that you're upset about rings, because

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that is how you are coming across? Erm... It is nothing that I can go

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into. Is it yellow flags? There is nothing that can come good of what I

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would say. Finally, the semi-finalists

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of this year's Britain's Got Talent 18 of the final 45 are singers,

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while 12 are dance acts, including The boys who rapped

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about their experiences They will all compete

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in live semi-finals, with the ultimate winner taking home

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?250,000 and a spot at the That's all from me, Newsround's

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back right here at 8.15.

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