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Tonight at ten: America's voters have spoken and

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President Obama gets a second term. There was euphoria in the Obama

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camp after a hard-fought campaign in a difficult economic climate.

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With your stories and your struggles, I return to the White

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House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work

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there is to do and the future that lies ahead.

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The Republican Mitt Romney conceded after he'd failed to break through

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in most of the battleground states. I so wish for it I had been able to

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fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a different direction,

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but the nation chose another leader. Four more years! As voters took in

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the news overnight, there was still a strong sense today of a nation

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divided. I am relieved, I voted for the President for years ago and I'm

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glad. I'm disappointed and fearful for our country. I feel we are not

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better off than four years ago. We'll be looking at the President's

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second term challenges, including tackling America's huge budget

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deficit. Also tonight: The economy is also dominating

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talks in London between David Cameron and the German Chancellor.

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And I'm in Beijing, where a change of leadership is imminent for the

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world's most populous country. There's maximum security as they

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begin a transfer of power, which only happens once in a decade.

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the next leaders be looking at China, it will be a social and

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economic story. And tonight's football news - a

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sensational win for Celtic against Coming up in sport, Celtic took the

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lead against Barcelona in the Champions League. Find out if they

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were able to hold on for a famous Welcome to Washington.

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America's voters have decided to keep Barack Obama in the White

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House for another four years. The President defeated his Republican

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rival, Mitt Romney, who conceded early this morning after he'd

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failed to make a breakthrough in most of the battleground states.

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But the President faces an uphill struggle getting his way in

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Congress. The Republicans retained their control of the House of

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Representatives, while the Democrats held on to the Senate. So

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this is the Presidential picture so far. With the result in Florida

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still too close to call, Mr Obama has won 303 electoral college votes

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to Mr Romney's 206 - a very significant margin. But the popular

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vote tells a slightly different story. Currently, President Obama

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has 50.4% with Mitt Romney on 48.1%. We'll have all the reaction and

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we'll be discussing what lies ahead, but first, our North America editor,

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Mark Mardell, reports from Chicago This is what victory looks like.

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The very moment they knew they had triumphed. One supporter almost

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incredulous that four more years was no longer just a slogan. This

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is not near happiness they had beaten the other side, it is

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emotion over spilling at the survival of the Dream and the man

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Barack Obama and his family savoured the moment. He became the

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first black American President to win a second term. His road ahead

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is really hard. He said elections could be small and silly, but this

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choice was big and important. He would change. Whether I earned your

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vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you've

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made me a better President. And with your stories and your

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struggles, I return to the White House a more determined and more

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inspired than ever about the work Ferris to do and the future of that

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lies ahead. Victory was delivered in part by a big increase in the

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Latino vote, the resurrection of the winning coalition of four years

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ago when Republicans D -- kept the Deep South. President Obama the

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preached an inclusive American dream. Her I believe we can keep

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the promise of our founding, the idea that if you are willing to

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work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or

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what you look like all way you are live, it doesn't matter whether you

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are black all-white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American boy young

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or old or rich or poor, able to, disabled, but gay or straight, you

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can make it here in America if you are willing to try. But he is not

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the only one who has been re- elected. So has the Republican

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House of Representatives and they have blocked his every step for the

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last two years. Now he has promised he will find agreement. We are not

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as divided as our politics suggest a stop we are not as cynical as the

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pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual

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ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red state and blue

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States, we are and forever will be the United States of America!

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has been a roller-coaster ride of an election, and nail-biter all the

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way. For way ahead for the President will not be easy. For the

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crowd tonight, this is a second moment of history, a moment of joy

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and relief. I am so excited. I've been praying for this, I've been

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working for it. I've been donating and keeping in touch. He is such a

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wonderful President. A lot of people were raised with the values

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that we need to help each other and I don't see that in the Republican

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Party. I see a lot of selfishness and the only way we can get away

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from that is with Barack Obama. can't be anything other than very

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varied happy. Some hope a second term in the White House may put

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America on an irreversible path. In New York's Times Square, they may

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celebrate a more liberal future. Despite the stardust of the night,

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the challenges for the leader of this divided country can't be

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obscured. His first victory handed him an automatic place in the

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history books. In his second term, he will have to earn it by his

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achievements. Mark telling us about euphoric scenes in Chicago.

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Understandably it was rather more muted in Boston, where the Romney

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camp was based. The Republican candidate conceded when it became

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clear that his challenge in most of the battleground states had failed.

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He urged politicians on all sides to work together and to "put the

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people before the politics". From Boston, Ian Pannell reports on Mr

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Romney's defeat and where the The Poles had said it would be

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close and so a ballroom packed with believers revelled in the prospect

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of Republican success. There are just enough -- enough Republican

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votes. But it ended like a wake. President, too will win at Ohio.

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When the news channel predicted Mitt Romney would lose, they knew

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it was over. President Obama will again be President. Elections are

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Unforgiven -- unforgiving and the billions of dollars spent, the

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hours of campaigning, the late nights, off the hard work, came to

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this, defeat. After a short delay to check the numbers, Mitt Romney

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called the President to concede and then graciously he bowed out.

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wish I had been able to fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a

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different direction, but the nation chose another leader and so we join

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with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation. Thank

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you and God bless America. Mitt Romney has now conceded and he must

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decide what the future holds for him, but more importantly, the

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Republican Party, the Republican movement, must decide what is in

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store for them. I think the Republicans need to think about

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demographics, but both parties need to think about the British example.

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Republicans need to think about getting to the middle like David

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Cameron. Maybe being bought forthcoming on environmental

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protection or reaching up to the Hispanic community. Mitt Romney was

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a business man bred for high office, yet his record put him at odds with

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fellow Republicans and his wealth and tax plans made some doubt he

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cared about the middle class. Some of the bigger questions for

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Republicans centre on America's growing Hispanic neighbourhoods.

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Latinos of the country's largest minority and in this election they

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voted overwhelmingly for President Obama. The supermarket in East

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Boston is run by Colombian immigrants. A place to shop, gossip

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and sometimes talk politics. What would it take for people here to

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vote for a Republican candidate? consider our culture is very

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entwined with the Republican ones, family orientated, religious. All

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of the things that make up the Republicans, except that the

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Republicans don't want us here. now of the party must grieve its

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losses, but such is the cycle of American politics that as

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Republicans head home, they know that tomorrow the battle for the

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next Presidential election starts all over again.

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A prime feature of the President's first term was the conflict between

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the White House and the House of Representatives, controlled by the

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Republicans. The House is still controlled by the President's

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opponents after yesterday's vote, but the Republican speaker John

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Boehner said tonight that collaboration was necessary to make

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progress, especially on the economy and the budget. Matthew Price

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reports from Virginia, one of the most important battlegrounds in the

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election, on the challenges facing the President as he embarks on a

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This is a land where nothing changed overnight, a land still

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stuck in any economic rut. Ready for the next one. Times are tough

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at the barber's shop run by Ivan. Obama has another she chance to get

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the economy back on track. Can he do it? When you see things that are

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happening on the economics front, job improvement in the last couple

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of months, that was a good sign. you think he is on the right track?

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You yes. But how to deliver in a country so divided? For wealth gap

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is clear. So, in the heart of this nation, is the ideological divide.

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Once again the President has to work with a split Congress. In the

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Senate, his Democrat party strengthened its narrow majority.

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In the lower house, the Republicans still have solid control. Spending

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is where the first battle looms. Today shares fell over fears the

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two sides will not come to a budget deal by year's end. If they don't,

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legally taxes must rise and government spending will be cut

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automatically by $620 billion. President, this is your moment. We

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are ready to be led. Not as Democrats or Republicans, but as

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Americans. We want you to lead, not as a liberal ball -- liberal or

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conservative, but as President of the United States of America.

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on the streets, they know some will not back down. No deal and the

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resulting debt crisis will stall the economic recovery here. Kidd is

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no wonder that in the early hours of his morning, Barack Obama called

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for political unity, trust in government at the moment is at an

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all-time low. For political camps are digging their heels in like

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never before. This is going to be the biggest challenge of the last

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four years of President Obama. Welcome to the disunited States of

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America. Down the coast, the world's largest naval station, the

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Commander-in-Chief has more room to manoeuvre on foreign policy, but

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the next four years will require tough decisions. Iran and a

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possible nuclear strike, the rise of China, climate change against

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his country's call evangelists. And To talk more about this, let's go

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to Obama's home city of Chicago and Mark Mardell. How credible are all

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these calls this evening for co- operation and collaboration in the

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years ahead? It is a very good question. I tend to be cynical.

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I've been observed in American politics for the last four years.

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They are in love with the idea of working together. Everybody agrees

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they should work together. They call it bipartisanship, reaching

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across the aisle. Everybody says it's a great idea unless it means

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doing any compromising a tour. The trouble is we've just been through

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an election campaign where everybody has been told, the voters

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have been persuaded. There are two very different and clear visions of

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America. They are being told, maybe we have to muddle them of a bit.

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Neither side wants to give way. The President is in a difficult

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position. He's established himself. One of his promises four years ago

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as well as Mao was representing the whole United States, not just

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Republicans or Democrats. Yet he's just won a famous victory, and

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you've seen how excited his supporters are, they will want him

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to do the stuff they voted for him to do rather than sit down and give

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the Republicans what they want. I think we will see a game of both

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sides at least pretending to compromise for quite a while. The

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test is whether they will do it before they jump off that fiscal

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Cliff into a terrible mutual The BBC News website is full of

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features and lots of analysis of those US results, including the

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main challenges we've been talking Now that American voters have

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decided on their leadership for the next four years, attention turns to

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another global superpower - China. A major change of leadership is

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imminent there. Let's join Michael In a few hours' time, this country

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of 1.3 billion people begins a once in a decade transition to a new

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leadership. It will take place in the Great Hall of the people, just

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down the road there. Unlike what we've seen in America, the process

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here will have been largely behind closed doors and amid tight

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security at the 18th congress of the Communist Party. But its impact

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on global affairs will be no less important. The next 10 years could

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see China of us -- overtake the West and become the world's biggest

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economy. We might be entering an era in which we will all have to

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start looking east. John Simpson is here and he reports on a country

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preparing for change. Long live the great Chinese people, say the

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slogans. And long live the great Chinese Communist Party. Officially,

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they are the same thing. Only nowadays they seem more and

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waterfront. 30 or so years ago, everyone except the leaders went

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round on bikes. Absolutely everyone wore identical Chairman Mao suits,

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either grey or black - that was your only choice. On purely

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economic terms, the outgoing leadership under Hu Jintao has done

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wonders since they came in in 2002. China's economy has grown six times

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richer. Not bad in just 10 years. But there's been no equivalent

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growth at all in personal freedom here. Government advisers accept

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they have to find a way of doing that. But how? The Chinese

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government and the ruling party have to use this. More

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flexibilities will be given to the people so they have more access to

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air their views and to actively participate in national affairs and

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regional affairs. Fine, but nothing is being done about it. People feel

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their complaints are ignored. Worse, the outlook is not great. A flood

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of cheap labour is starting to dry up, the population is getting older

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and yet expectations are higher than ever. It's rather the

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inequality and opportunities that are creating these problems. For

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the next leader has to be looking at China, Babel not only be an

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economic story but a social one. They are getting ready, here in the

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Great Hall of the people, for the party congress, which will select,

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not elected, the next batch of leaders. They will have 10 years to

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sort the whole problem out. Will they manage? Well, maybe, if the

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Communist Party can adapt sufficiently. But a senior party

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officials said privately the other day he wondered if they would

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actually make it to the centenary of the party's fountain. That will

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John is with the now. This re- election of President Obama, I

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imagine here they will have been watching the process and will be

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pretty comfortable. More than that, I think they will be quite relieved.

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It is really worrying always to have a new President, an unknown

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quantity that spot to spend 18 months to perhaps two years working

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himself into the job, especially in foreign affairs. They don't have

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that now. Also they don't think privately that he is a very strong

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President, or at least not an aggressive President. They like

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that because they've got a lot of muscle flexing that they want to do

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in this part of Asia towards Japan, for instance. They don't want

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America moving into match and telling them what to do. Above all,

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they've got their own very serious problems. They've got to do

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something about these vast, great, state enterprises that are draining

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the life out of the economy, or at least could start to do so over the

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coming years. And they simply have to find a way to give people more

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personal freedom without bringing the whole structure tumbling down.

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Again, they are much happier to have a President who will watch

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rather than try to intervene in some way. That is all from us here

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tonight. Over the next week I will be back with John and the Beijing

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team. We will be looking at this crucial process and what it could

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been put China's own people and for the rest of the world. For now,

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back to Washington. In London, David Cameron has

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welcomed the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to Downing Street

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for talks about the future size of the EU budget, which is a big bone

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of contention for many of Mr Cameron's Conservative MPs. Angela

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Merkel has warned Britain not to deliver any ultimatums. She says

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that British people won't be happy if they are alone in the world.

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Nick Robinson has this report. When you invite someone to dinner there

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is always the awkward question of who picks up the bill. When David

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hosted Angela at Number Ten tonight, the Bill in question was the cost

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of the UK... For six whole years. A trillion euros, give or take a cent

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ought to. Britain says the bill should go up by no more than

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inflation. Germany used to agree. On the Downing Street menu tonight,

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how to reach agreement, not just about the size of that EU budget

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but also what it pays for and the size of the rebate. For the UK and

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other big players. Before dinner, signs she was not impressed of --

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with talk of him vetoing any deal he did not like.

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TRANSLATION: If you have 27 interest that you want to reconcile,

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it is not a great idea to start with an ultimatum. You have to try

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and find common ground first. best should be a cut, at worst a

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freeze. Whatever the discussions we have denied, I will be trying to

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get a good deal for the British taxpayer, a good deal for Britain,

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one that I can put in front of my Parliament and the British people.

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Earlier, on route to London, the German Chancellor had delivered a

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message to the people of the British Isles while speaking in

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Brussels to the European Parliament. TRANSLATION: I will ask the

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inhabitants of this wonderful island that you can be very happy

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but you won't be happy if you are alone in this world. She was

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challenged by the leader of the UK Independence Party, who told her

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Britain had to be either fully in the EU or, as he wants, fully out.

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Every single proposal that you come up with, Mr Cameron is forced to

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say no to. We are going to find ourselves effectively as the

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Cinderella state. No deal was actually done over the din of

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English venison and traditional German cake. The reason is simple.

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Curbing the EU budget may matter in Britain but compared with the

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potentially massive cost of bailing out the euros and, it is pretty

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trivial if you are rich German. -- it is pretty trivial if you are a

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German. The BBC is to transfer dozens of television and radio

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presenters currently employed as freelancers to staff contracts,

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following a review of its employment arrangements. The BBC

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says its current policy for contracting staff is inconsistent,

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but its sights an independent report which concludes there is no

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evidence of any policy to avoid tax or national insurance. There is new

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evidence that the fungus which causes ash tree disease has spread

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to Scotland and Wales. The Forestry Commission says Dalbeattie Forest

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in Dumfries and Galloway is one of seven sites where the fungus has

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been identified. One case has also been confirmed in a small, private

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woodland in Carmarthenshire. The Greek parliament has just approved

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new controversial spending cuts worth $17 billion. Measures were

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passed by a majority of just three. Riot police fired tear-gas at

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thousands of protesters who gathered outside the parliament

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building earlier today. Let's go on to football. There's been a major

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upset tonight in the European Champions' League. Celtic beat

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Barcelona 2-1 at Celtic Park. Good news for Chelsea and for Manchester

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United. The masses against the Messi. Celtic will never lack

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support but beating Barcelona on the pitch was impossible... Wasn't

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it? A 21-year-old from Kenya, just 70 minutes to hold on. Of course

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Barcelona bossed the game for long spells. But very few sides resist

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like Celtic. The ball to Messi, just the chance he needed - saved.

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Against the priceless vase of Barcelona, Celtic sent on a secret

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weapon signed from Airdrie. Tony what is only 18 and they never

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experience another moment like this if he plays until he's 80! Fraser

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Forster was eventually beaten in the Celtic goal by Messi. It didn't

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matter. 2-1. Celtic have been going 125 years. They have now beaten the

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best in Europe. Overwhelming. In London, Chelsea waited until the

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fourth minute of injury time to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 at

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Stamford Bridge. Manchester United are only needed a point in Braga to

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qualify. They were losing 1-0 and then it suddenly looked like the

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interior of a mine. United came back to win 3-1, but nothing

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compared to the Drama in Glasgow. The actor Clive Dunn, who became

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one of the most famous faces on British television, as Lance

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Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, has died at the age of 92. He

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established some memorable catchphrases and even managed a

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surprise number one hit single. still puts fear into the hearts of

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us. They don't like it, sir berm he was irritating but he was an

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Deering, and he always asked for permission to speak. Clive Dunn's

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Corporal Jones was a stalwart of one of the most famous comedies the

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BBC has ever produced. Famous for catchphrases, the actor originally

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wasn't sure about it. I thought the audience might find it a bit

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offensive, they don't like it up them. But they loved it. They love

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anything that's a bit rude, God bless 'em! Dad's Army colleagues

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remembered him with fondness. the first night of the stage show

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he brought everybody, that everybody in a really large cast, a

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bottle of champagne - wonderfully generous. He had a wonderfully

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generous giving aspect. Working was always fun. Not necessarily

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hysterical but always fun. A word that Clive used an awful lot was

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nice. He had been a soldier himself when he was young, and he was young

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once. He spent years in this building in Austria as a prisoner

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of war. Jonesy, he said, was his revenge. He specialised in old man.

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In the 1970s there was an # Grandad, grandad...

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Later the grandad character was turned into a TV series for

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children. But it was his coolness under pressure in the Home Guard

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for which he will be remembered. Time now for a final word on

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today's election results in the USA. Mr Obama and his family left

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Chicago a short while ago, heading back to Washington DC. They will be

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here at the White House a little later tonight at the start of this

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second term in office. Let's have the last word with our North

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America Editor in Chicago. Let's talk more about the second term.

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Are you expecting it to be notably different to what we saw in the

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first? I think it's a very interesting question. All

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presidents want to leave their mark on history. I think this President

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will particularly want to do that. Sometimes in his first four years,

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he seemed to feel the job was a bit of a drag, he seemed burdened by it,

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it was a duty and not a joy. One of the reasons was he didn't want it

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so he could clear-up other people's messes, so he could deal with the

:28:51.:28:54.

economy and deal with Iraq and Afghanistan. I think he decided

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long ago that he really does want to transform America, make it

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better for the poorest, give people opportunity. I think that is a very

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deeply held mission for him. I think you will try to put his stamp

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on it in that way. He doesn't have to worry about being re-elected.

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Popularity is not quite the same problem. But there is a difficulty.

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In office, you do have to deal with all the stuff that gets thrown at

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you. You have foreign affairs challenges coming up. He could end

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of again not having that opportunity, not being able to make

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that step forward and just having to deal with events, dear boy,

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events, as one of our prime ministers used to say. That is all

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