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Tonight at ten: America's voters have spoken and | :00:04. | :00:13. | |
President Obama gets a second term. There was euphoria in the Obama | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
camp after a hard-fought campaign in a difficult economic climate. | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
With your stories and your struggles, I return to the White | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
there is to do and the future that lies ahead. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
The Republican Mitt Romney conceded after he'd failed to break through | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
in most of the battleground states. I so wish for it I had been able to | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a different direction, | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
but the nation chose another leader. Four more years! As voters took in | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
the news overnight, there was still a strong sense today of a nation | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
divided. I am relieved, I voted for the President for years ago and I'm | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
glad. I'm disappointed and fearful for our country. I feel we are not | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
better off than four years ago. We'll be looking at the President's | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
second term challenges, including tackling America's huge budget | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
deficit. Also tonight: The economy is also dominating | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
talks in London between David Cameron and the German Chancellor. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
And I'm in Beijing, where a change of leadership is imminent for the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
world's most populous country. There's maximum security as they | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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begin a transfer of power, which only happens once in a decade. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
the next leaders be looking at China, it will be a social and | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
economic story. And tonight's football news - a | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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sensational win for Celtic against Coming up in sport, Celtic took the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
lead against Barcelona in the Champions League. Find out if they | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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were able to hold on for a famous Welcome to Washington. | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
America's voters have decided to keep Barack Obama in the White | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
House for another four years. The President defeated his Republican | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
rival, Mitt Romney, who conceded early this morning after he'd | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
failed to make a breakthrough in most of the battleground states. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
But the President faces an uphill struggle getting his way in | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Congress. The Republicans retained their control of the House of | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Representatives, while the Democrats held on to the Senate. So | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
this is the Presidential picture so far. With the result in Florida | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
still too close to call, Mr Obama has won 303 electoral college votes | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
to Mr Romney's 206 - a very significant margin. But the popular | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
vote tells a slightly different story. Currently, President Obama | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
has 50.4% with Mitt Romney on 48.1%. We'll have all the reaction and | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
we'll be discussing what lies ahead, but first, our North America editor, | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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Mark Mardell, reports from Chicago This is what victory looks like. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
The very moment they knew they had triumphed. One supporter almost | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
incredulous that four more years was no longer just a slogan. This | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
is not near happiness they had beaten the other side, it is | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
emotion over spilling at the survival of the Dream and the man | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
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Barack Obama and his family savoured the moment. He became the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
first black American President to win a second term. His road ahead | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
is really hard. He said elections could be small and silly, but this | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
choice was big and important. He would change. Whether I earned your | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you've | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
made me a better President. And with your stories and your | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
struggles, I return to the White House a more determined and more | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
inspired than ever about the work Ferris to do and the future of that | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
lies ahead. Victory was delivered in part by a big increase in the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Latino vote, the resurrection of the winning coalition of four years | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
ago when Republicans D -- kept the Deep South. President Obama the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
preached an inclusive American dream. Her I believe we can keep | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the promise of our founding, the idea that if you are willing to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
what you look like all way you are live, it doesn't matter whether you | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
are black all-white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American boy young | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
or old or rich or poor, able to, disabled, but gay or straight, you | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
can make it here in America if you are willing to try. But he is not | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
the only one who has been re- elected. So has the Republican | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
House of Representatives and they have blocked his every step for the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
last two years. Now he has promised he will find agreement. We are not | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
as divided as our politics suggest a stop we are not as cynical as the | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red state and blue | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
States, we are and forever will be the United States of America! | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
has been a roller-coaster ride of an election, and nail-biter all the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
way. For way ahead for the President will not be easy. For the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
crowd tonight, this is a second moment of history, a moment of joy | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
and relief. I am so excited. I've been praying for this, I've been | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
working for it. I've been donating and keeping in touch. He is such a | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
wonderful President. A lot of people were raised with the values | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
that we need to help each other and I don't see that in the Republican | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Party. I see a lot of selfishness and the only way we can get away | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
from that is with Barack Obama. can't be anything other than very | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
varied happy. Some hope a second term in the White House may put | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
America on an irreversible path. In New York's Times Square, they may | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
celebrate a more liberal future. Despite the stardust of the night, | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the challenges for the leader of this divided country can't be | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
obscured. His first victory handed him an automatic place in the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
history books. In his second term, he will have to earn it by his | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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achievements. Mark telling us about euphoric scenes in Chicago. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Understandably it was rather more muted in Boston, where the Romney | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
camp was based. The Republican candidate conceded when it became | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
clear that his challenge in most of the battleground states had failed. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
He urged politicians on all sides to work together and to "put the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
people before the politics". From Boston, Ian Pannell reports on Mr | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
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Romney's defeat and where the The Poles had said it would be | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
close and so a ballroom packed with believers revelled in the prospect | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
of Republican success. There are just enough -- enough Republican | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
votes. But it ended like a wake. President, too will win at Ohio. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
When the news channel predicted Mitt Romney would lose, they knew | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
it was over. President Obama will again be President. Elections are | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Unforgiven -- unforgiving and the billions of dollars spent, the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
hours of campaigning, the late nights, off the hard work, came to | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
this, defeat. After a short delay to check the numbers, Mitt Romney | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
called the President to concede and then graciously he bowed out. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
wish I had been able to fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
different direction, but the nation chose another leader and so we join | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation. Thank | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
you and God bless America. Mitt Romney has now conceded and he must | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
decide what the future holds for him, but more importantly, the | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Republican Party, the Republican movement, must decide what is in | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
store for them. I think the Republicans need to think about | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
demographics, but both parties need to think about the British example. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Republicans need to think about getting to the middle like David | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Cameron. Maybe being bought forthcoming on environmental | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
protection or reaching up to the Hispanic community. Mitt Romney was | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
a business man bred for high office, yet his record put him at odds with | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
fellow Republicans and his wealth and tax plans made some doubt he | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
cared about the middle class. Some of the bigger questions for | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Republicans centre on America's growing Hispanic neighbourhoods. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Latinos of the country's largest minority and in this election they | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
voted overwhelmingly for President Obama. The supermarket in East | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Boston is run by Colombian immigrants. A place to shop, gossip | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and sometimes talk politics. What would it take for people here to | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
vote for a Republican candidate? consider our culture is very | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
entwined with the Republican ones, family orientated, religious. All | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
of the things that make up the Republicans, except that the | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Republicans don't want us here. now of the party must grieve its | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
losses, but such is the cycle of American politics that as | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Republicans head home, they know that tomorrow the battle for the | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
next Presidential election starts all over again. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
A prime feature of the President's first term was the conflict between | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the White House and the House of Representatives, controlled by the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Republicans. The House is still controlled by the President's | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
opponents after yesterday's vote, but the Republican speaker John | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Boehner said tonight that collaboration was necessary to make | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
progress, especially on the economy and the budget. Matthew Price | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
reports from Virginia, one of the most important battlegrounds in the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
election, on the challenges facing the President as he embarks on a | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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This is a land where nothing changed overnight, a land still | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
stuck in any economic rut. Ready for the next one. Times are tough | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
at the barber's shop run by Ivan. Obama has another she chance to get | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
the economy back on track. Can he do it? When you see things that are | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
happening on the economics front, job improvement in the last couple | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
of months, that was a good sign. you think he is on the right track? | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
You yes. But how to deliver in a country so divided? For wealth gap | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
is clear. So, in the heart of this nation, is the ideological divide. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Once again the President has to work with a split Congress. In the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Senate, his Democrat party strengthened its narrow majority. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
In the lower house, the Republicans still have solid control. Spending | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
is where the first battle looms. Today shares fell over fears the | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
two sides will not come to a budget deal by year's end. If they don't, | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
legally taxes must rise and government spending will be cut | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
automatically by $620 billion. President, this is your moment. We | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
are ready to be led. Not as Democrats or Republicans, but as | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Americans. We want you to lead, not as a liberal ball -- liberal or | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
conservative, but as President of the United States of America. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
on the streets, they know some will not back down. No deal and the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
resulting debt crisis will stall the economic recovery here. Kidd is | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
no wonder that in the early hours of his morning, Barack Obama called | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
for political unity, trust in government at the moment is at an | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
all-time low. For political camps are digging their heels in like | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
never before. This is going to be the biggest challenge of the last | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
four years of President Obama. Welcome to the disunited States of | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
America. Down the coast, the world's largest naval station, the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Commander-in-Chief has more room to manoeuvre on foreign policy, but | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the next four years will require tough decisions. Iran and a | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
possible nuclear strike, the rise of China, climate change against | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
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his country's call evangelists. And To talk more about this, let's go | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
to Obama's home city of Chicago and Mark Mardell. How credible are all | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
these calls this evening for co- operation and collaboration in the | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
years ahead? It is a very good question. I tend to be cynical. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
I've been observed in American politics for the last four years. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
They are in love with the idea of working together. Everybody agrees | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
they should work together. They call it bipartisanship, reaching | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
across the aisle. Everybody says it's a great idea unless it means | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
doing any compromising a tour. The trouble is we've just been through | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
an election campaign where everybody has been told, the voters | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
have been persuaded. There are two very different and clear visions of | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
America. They are being told, maybe we have to muddle them of a bit. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Neither side wants to give way. The President is in a difficult | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
position. He's established himself. One of his promises four years ago | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
as well as Mao was representing the whole United States, not just | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Republicans or Democrats. Yet he's just won a famous victory, and | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
you've seen how excited his supporters are, they will want him | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
to do the stuff they voted for him to do rather than sit down and give | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
the Republicans what they want. I think we will see a game of both | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
sides at least pretending to compromise for quite a while. The | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
test is whether they will do it before they jump off that fiscal | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
Cliff into a terrible mutual The BBC News website is full of | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
features and lots of analysis of those US results, including the | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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main challenges we've been talking Now that American voters have | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
decided on their leadership for the next four years, attention turns to | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
another global superpower - China. A major change of leadership is | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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imminent there. Let's join Michael In a few hours' time, this country | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
of 1.3 billion people begins a once in a decade transition to a new | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
leadership. It will take place in the Great Hall of the people, just | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
down the road there. Unlike what we've seen in America, the process | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
here will have been largely behind closed doors and amid tight | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
security at the 18th congress of the Communist Party. But its impact | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
on global affairs will be no less important. The next 10 years could | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
see China of us -- overtake the West and become the world's biggest | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
economy. We might be entering an era in which we will all have to | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
start looking east. John Simpson is here and he reports on a country | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
preparing for change. Long live the great Chinese people, say the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
slogans. And long live the great Chinese Communist Party. Officially, | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
they are the same thing. Only nowadays they seem more and | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
waterfront. 30 or so years ago, everyone except the leaders went | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
round on bikes. Absolutely everyone wore identical Chairman Mao suits, | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
either grey or black - that was your only choice. On purely | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
economic terms, the outgoing leadership under Hu Jintao has done | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
wonders since they came in in 2002. China's economy has grown six times | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
richer. Not bad in just 10 years. But there's been no equivalent | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
growth at all in personal freedom here. Government advisers accept | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
they have to find a way of doing that. But how? The Chinese | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
government and the ruling party have to use this. More | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
flexibilities will be given to the people so they have more access to | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
air their views and to actively participate in national affairs and | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
regional affairs. Fine, but nothing is being done about it. People feel | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
their complaints are ignored. Worse, the outlook is not great. A flood | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
of cheap labour is starting to dry up, the population is getting older | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
and yet expectations are higher than ever. It's rather the | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
inequality and opportunities that are creating these problems. For | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
the next leader has to be looking at China, Babel not only be an | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
economic story but a social one. They are getting ready, here in the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Great Hall of the people, for the party congress, which will select, | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
not elected, the next batch of leaders. They will have 10 years to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
sort the whole problem out. Will they manage? Well, maybe, if the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Communist Party can adapt sufficiently. But a senior party | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
officials said privately the other day he wondered if they would | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
actually make it to the centenary of the party's fountain. That will | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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John is with the now. This re- election of President Obama, I | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
imagine here they will have been watching the process and will be | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
pretty comfortable. More than that, I think they will be quite relieved. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
It is really worrying always to have a new President, an unknown | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
quantity that spot to spend 18 months to perhaps two years working | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
himself into the job, especially in foreign affairs. They don't have | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
that now. Also they don't think privately that he is a very strong | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
President, or at least not an aggressive President. They like | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
that because they've got a lot of muscle flexing that they want to do | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
in this part of Asia towards Japan, for instance. They don't want | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
America moving into match and telling them what to do. Above all, | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
they've got their own very serious problems. They've got to do | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
something about these vast, great, state enterprises that are draining | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
the life out of the economy, or at least could start to do so over the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
coming years. And they simply have to find a way to give people more | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
personal freedom without bringing the whole structure tumbling down. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Again, they are much happier to have a President who will watch | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
rather than try to intervene in some way. That is all from us here | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
tonight. Over the next week I will be back with John and the Beijing | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
team. We will be looking at this crucial process and what it could | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
been put China's own people and for the rest of the world. For now, | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
back to Washington. In London, David Cameron has | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
welcomed the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to Downing Street | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
for talks about the future size of the EU budget, which is a big bone | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
of contention for many of Mr Cameron's Conservative MPs. Angela | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Merkel has warned Britain not to deliver any ultimatums. She says | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
that British people won't be happy if they are alone in the world. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Nick Robinson has this report. When you invite someone to dinner there | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
is always the awkward question of who picks up the bill. When David | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
hosted Angela at Number Ten tonight, the Bill in question was the cost | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
of the UK... For six whole years. A trillion euros, give or take a cent | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
ought to. Britain says the bill should go up by no more than | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
inflation. Germany used to agree. On the Downing Street menu tonight, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
how to reach agreement, not just about the size of that EU budget | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
but also what it pays for and the size of the rebate. For the UK and | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
other big players. Before dinner, signs she was not impressed of -- | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
with talk of him vetoing any deal he did not like. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
TRANSLATION: If you have 27 interest that you want to reconcile, | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
it is not a great idea to start with an ultimatum. You have to try | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
and find common ground first. best should be a cut, at worst a | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
freeze. Whatever the discussions we have denied, I will be trying to | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
get a good deal for the British taxpayer, a good deal for Britain, | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
one that I can put in front of my Parliament and the British people. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Earlier, on route to London, the German Chancellor had delivered a | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
message to the people of the British Isles while speaking in | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Brussels to the European Parliament. TRANSLATION: I will ask the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
inhabitants of this wonderful island that you can be very happy | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
but you won't be happy if you are alone in this world. She was | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
challenged by the leader of the UK Independence Party, who told her | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
Britain had to be either fully in the EU or, as he wants, fully out. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Every single proposal that you come up with, Mr Cameron is forced to | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
say no to. We are going to find ourselves effectively as the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Cinderella state. No deal was actually done over the din of | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
English venison and traditional German cake. The reason is simple. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Curbing the EU budget may matter in Britain but compared with the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
potentially massive cost of bailing out the euros and, it is pretty | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
trivial if you are rich German. -- it is pretty trivial if you are a | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
German. The BBC is to transfer dozens of television and radio | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
presenters currently employed as freelancers to staff contracts, | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
following a review of its employment arrangements. The BBC | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
says its current policy for contracting staff is inconsistent, | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
but its sights an independent report which concludes there is no | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
evidence of any policy to avoid tax or national insurance. There is new | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
evidence that the fungus which causes ash tree disease has spread | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
to Scotland and Wales. The Forestry Commission says Dalbeattie Forest | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
in Dumfries and Galloway is one of seven sites where the fungus has | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
been identified. One case has also been confirmed in a small, private | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
woodland in Carmarthenshire. The Greek parliament has just approved | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
new controversial spending cuts worth $17 billion. Measures were | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
passed by a majority of just three. Riot police fired tear-gas at | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
thousands of protesters who gathered outside the parliament | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
building earlier today. Let's go on to football. There's been a major | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
upset tonight in the European Champions' League. Celtic beat | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Barcelona 2-1 at Celtic Park. Good news for Chelsea and for Manchester | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
United. The masses against the Messi. Celtic will never lack | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
support but beating Barcelona on the pitch was impossible... Wasn't | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
:24:41. | :24:44. | ||
it? A 21-year-old from Kenya, just 70 minutes to hold on. Of course | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Barcelona bossed the game for long spells. But very few sides resist | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
like Celtic. The ball to Messi, just the chance he needed - saved. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Against the priceless vase of Barcelona, Celtic sent on a secret | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
weapon signed from Airdrie. Tony what is only 18 and they never | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
experience another moment like this if he plays until he's 80! Fraser | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Forster was eventually beaten in the Celtic goal by Messi. It didn't | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
matter. 2-1. Celtic have been going 125 years. They have now beaten the | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
best in Europe. Overwhelming. In London, Chelsea waited until the | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
fourth minute of injury time to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 at | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
Stamford Bridge. Manchester United are only needed a point in Braga to | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
qualify. They were losing 1-0 and then it suddenly looked like the | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
interior of a mine. United came back to win 3-1, but nothing | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
compared to the Drama in Glasgow. The actor Clive Dunn, who became | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
one of the most famous faces on British television, as Lance | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, has died at the age of 92. He | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
established some memorable catchphrases and even managed a | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
surprise number one hit single. still puts fear into the hearts of | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
us. They don't like it, sir berm he was irritating but he was an | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
Deering, and he always asked for permission to speak. Clive Dunn's | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Corporal Jones was a stalwart of one of the most famous comedies the | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
BBC has ever produced. Famous for catchphrases, the actor originally | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
wasn't sure about it. I thought the audience might find it a bit | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
offensive, they don't like it up them. But they loved it. They love | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
anything that's a bit rude, God bless 'em! Dad's Army colleagues | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
remembered him with fondness. the first night of the stage show | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
he brought everybody, that everybody in a really large cast, a | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
bottle of champagne - wonderfully generous. He had a wonderfully | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
generous giving aspect. Working was always fun. Not necessarily | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
hysterical but always fun. A word that Clive used an awful lot was | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
nice. He had been a soldier himself when he was young, and he was young | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
once. He spent years in this building in Austria as a prisoner | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
of war. Jonesy, he said, was his revenge. He specialised in old man. | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
:27:29. | :27:32. | ||
In the 1970s there was an # Grandad, grandad... | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Later the grandad character was turned into a TV series for | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
children. But it was his coolness under pressure in the Home Guard | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
:27:49. | :27:57. | ||
for which he will be remembered. Time now for a final word on | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
today's election results in the USA. Mr Obama and his family left | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Chicago a short while ago, heading back to Washington DC. They will be | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
here at the White House a little later tonight at the start of this | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
second term in office. Let's have the last word with our North | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
America Editor in Chicago. Let's talk more about the second term. | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
Are you expecting it to be notably different to what we saw in the | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
first? I think it's a very interesting question. All | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
presidents want to leave their mark on history. I think this President | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
will particularly want to do that. Sometimes in his first four years, | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
he seemed to feel the job was a bit of a drag, he seemed burdened by it, | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
it was a duty and not a joy. One of the reasons was he didn't want it | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
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 | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
long ago that he really does want to transform America, make it | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
better for the poorest, give people opportunity. I think that is a very | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
deeply held mission for him. I think you will try to put his stamp | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
on it in that way. He doesn't have to worry about being re-elected. | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
Popularity is not quite the same problem. But there is a difficulty. | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
In office, you do have to deal with all the stuff that gets thrown at | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
you. You have foreign affairs challenges coming up. He could end | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
of again not having that opportunity, not being able to make | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
that step forward and just having to deal with events, dear boy, | :29:30. | :29:39. | |
events, as one of our prime ministers used to say. That is all | :29:39. | :29:44. |