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Tonight at ten, on the eve of referendum day, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the last-minute campaigning to try to convince millions of voters. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
For David Cameron of Remain and Boris Johnson of Leave, | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
it's been a day of reinforcing their basic campaign messages. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The Prime Minister has been telling voters again | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
that staying in the EU is the only option that makes sense. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Go out and vote remain for a bigger, better Britain | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
inside a reformed EU - stronger, safer, better off. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
After nine weeks of relentless campaigning, | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Boris Johnson was telling voters | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
that this was their opportunity to "take back control". | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
This is a great moment for our country | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
and a time to be optimistic about what Britain can achieve. | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
The forthcoming success of the day will be down to us coming out of | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
Europe... Why are we leaping into the unknown?! | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
And even in these closing hours of the campaign, | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
as millions prepare to visit the polling stations. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
We're in the BBC's referendum studio, | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
with all the news of the final stages | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
just nine hours before those polling stations open. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Also tonight, we report from Libya, where government-backed forces have | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
made significant gains against the fighters of so-called Islamic State. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
The buildings that they're targeting right now contain snipers. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
They've been mapping them for the past two weeks, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
thanks to a drone and British special forces. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
One of many vigils held for Jo Cox, the Labour MP killed last week. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Today would have been her 42nd birthday. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
for the Home Nations in the next stages? | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
Coming up in Euro 2016 Sportsday, a last-minute winner against Austria | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
means it's Iceland who will play England in the last 16. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
We'll have all the action on the final day | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Good evening from the BBC's referendum studio. | :02:01. | :02:23. | |
This is where we'll be covering the results tomorrow night | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
from across the United Kingdom, as tens of millions of voters | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
decide Britain's future in the European Union. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
The stakes are extremely high, and that's been underlined | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
by the intensity of campaigning on this final day before polling. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
David Cameron declared once again that Britain | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
would would be "stronger, safer and better off" | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Boris Johnson repeated his campaign theme, that this was | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
an opportunity for Britain to "take back control" of its affairs. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
spent time with both campaigns in the closing hours. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
They'd almost pucker up to anything to get out the vote. | :03:01. | :03:13. | |
By half seven, the main Tory face of leaving the EU | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Fantastic, you're the salt the earth! | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
An hour later, the Prime Minister on the factory floor again, | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Your decision could change his career. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Vote Remain! Thank you very much! | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Ramming home his message with a little help from his friends. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
If they vote to leave on the basis of half-truths | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
and untruths and misunderstandings, then pretty soon the grave-diggers | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
of our prosperity will have some very serious questions to answer. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
Is he wondering if he'll also be a former Prime Minister | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
To Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the closing hours of a campaign that's been vibrant and noisy. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
And if the polls tell us anything, a result that could be very tight. | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
Thank you for coming out this morning. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
But what do you think is going to happen? | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
What is your sense? It's very... | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
It's impossible to know, I hope everybody who wants to take | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
back control of our democracy will come out and vote tomorrow, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and I'd just say to people who are making their minds up | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
that I think the safest thing to do is to vote leave. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Because if we don't, we are just locked in this thing, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
it will go on and on with no reform at all. | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
A senior politician once said to me, the more hands they shake, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
It's not quite as simple as that, but he's giving it a try. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
But why would you leap into the unknown? | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
But there's been anger and anxiety on both sides too. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
Can you shut up? No, I can't shut up! | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
You don't want to listen to me because you're wrong! | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
That is why you don't want to listen! | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
You don't want to listen because I'm 17 and you think I'm illiterate! | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
But what the UK decides about the EU could affect our other Union. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
But this is THE moment for the man whose years of campaigning for out | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
pushed to this decision - a day away. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Vote with your heart, vote with your soul. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Vote with pride in this country and its people, | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
and together we can make tomorrow our Independence Day. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Whether battle bus, plane, helicopter, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
or simply walking in wellies, whatever it takes today. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn... | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
The leader is a reluctant Remain, but will his voters really listen? | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
The vote is tomorrow. Do what's best for our people. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Vote for jobs, vote for rights at work, vote for our NHS, | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
vote to remain in the European Union. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
But on the south coast at lunchtime, | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
the most bitter fight has been among Tory friends and rivals. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
More and more people, I find, have been warm and responsive | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
and recognise that voting leave is the optimistic thing to do. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
It's three o'clock, and the school buses are all lined up, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
and the Prime Minister is on his home turf | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
he wants this choice to be about the next generation. | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
Might he be wondering, if only they they all had a vote! | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
A couple of weeks you ago, you told me you weren't worried | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
about the result, but it seems so uncertain, you must be now. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Obviously, I think, for the sake of the country, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
it's really important we vote to stay in, because that is | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
how we're going to have a stronger economy, that is how we're going | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
that we're going to be stronger as a country. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
So in this last day, we need to make all those arguments, | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
and we need to encourage people | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
to get out there and vote, and vote to remain. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
What's your hunch? Hiya, how are you doing? | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Either way, your choice will not be the end of this extraordinary story. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The referendum has already changed our politics. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Laura Kuennsberg, BBC News, Hertfordshire. | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
There are 46 million people registered to vote | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
in tomorrow's referendum, all of them being asked to decide | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
whether Britain should leave the European Union | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
43 years after it joined the European Economic Community | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
One of the main claims of the Remain campaign has been that further | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
but president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
said today that there can be no renegotiation | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Well, as the campaign leaders were criss- crossing | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
the country, so was deputy political editor | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
John Pienaar to see what voters made of today's final push. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Fun to watch these campaign visits, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
but now most people's minds are made up, | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
What are you going to do? Leave. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Why are you going to vote to leave? Because I'm proud of me country. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
This country built the world, really. | :08:17. | :08:17. | |
They're insulting our country by saying we can't manage, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Cameron has put me off it, for a start. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
How did he do that? Well, the lies. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Lies, he comes out with everything he wants to tell you. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
The Boris Johnson circus moves on, past others just as concerned, | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Have you made up your mind how you're going to vote? | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
I'm not definitely sure, to be perfectly honest. | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
But I'm more concerned about my job, all the things like that. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
My son actually is doing economics at school in sixth form. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
He's been giving me a bit of an earhole blasting. | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
What has he been telling you? He's been telling me to stay in. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
But worries about migrants keeping wages down keep coming up. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
They're happy to work at ?4 or ?5 an hour, | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
less than I'm willing to work at, which is the norm. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
What do you do? Well, what can you do? | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
What do you do? I do a couple of things, | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
I'm in finance but I've also got the trucking industry. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
In Banbury, the news in the town is David Cameron | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
You're in charge here, what's your name? | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
My name's Charlie. How are you going to vote? | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
I'm going to vote in. Tell me why? | :09:29. | :09:29. | |
I like the fact that my brother lives out in Spain, he has | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
made a life for himself there, he has his own company and is happy. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
I don't know how it would affect him. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
And if I want to up sticks tomorrow and go to Italy, I can. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
OK, guys, sorry to gate-crash your party. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
I'm going to do a poll here, straightaway, in or out Europe? | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
I think our economy is a lot stronger in the EU. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
I also think a lot of people are voting out because they hadn't | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
decided, because they don't know enough information. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
But I think, why would you take that risk? | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
And I don't know much about politics anyway, | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
You're an outer, why are you an outer? | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Various reasons, but I think the one that's most important to me | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
is my vote is for a government, and I give them a mandate to govern, | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and I don't ever give Europe a mandate to govern us, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
even if tempers have been tested on the way. | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
The past nine weeks of campaigning have been dominated | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
for the most part by two issues - the economy and immigration. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Let's consider how those arguments have developed. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
In a moment, we can talk to our home editor, | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
but first our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Your sense of how the economic argument has progressed during this | :11:04. | :11:18. | |
campaign? Well, certainly, Huw, there has been a blizzard of | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
statistics. When it comes to this most important issue at the heart of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the referendum, the economy. What would the consequences be if Britain | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
remained in left the European Union? I think amid all the noise, the and | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
counterclaims, there are two important points that can be | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
defined. Firstly, most serious economic organisations say that in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the short term, at least, there would be a negative economic impact | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
if Britain were to leave the European Union. They suggest that | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
trade with the EU would become more difficult and the EU is our most | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
important export market. They say that uncertainty could damage | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
growth. And then the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, he | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
said that Britain could face recession, which would be a threat | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
to our jobs, to house prices, and to our incomes. Now, over the longer | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
term, forecasts are far more uncertain. Some economists that back | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Brexit say that, yes, there could be short-term uncertainty, but over the | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
longer term the UK economy would flourish, freed, has pace and, from | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the shackles of the EU. They say red tape would be reduced, they argue we | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
would be able to sign easier free-trade deals with important | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
trading partners like the US and China, without the need for | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
agreement with 27 other EU members. I have just come back from Windsor, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
where the former Governor of the Bank of England gave a bit of a | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
health warning about all of these economic arguments. He said some of | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
them were exaggerated, whether it is the plague of locusts on one side, | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
or the Sunny Abrol and is on the other. I think some economists would | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
agree with that. -- sunny apple ands. A former Clinton aide gave a | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
great and so when he was as what wins elections, he said, it's the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
economy, stupid. Polls do suggest that voters are swayed by economic | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
argument is. Whether they are swayed towards Remain or Leave, we will | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
only know once the polls are closed. Indeed, thanks very much, Kamal | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Ahmed, in the City of London. Mark Easton, we heard a lot about freedom | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
of movement initially, and then more specifically the argument about | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
immigration, what did you make of it? For most people in Britain, | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
their most direct experience of the European Union in the last few years | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
has probably been the site of a Polish supermarket opening in the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
high street. The last 12 years has seen the most extraordinary | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
phenomenon, 1.7 million EU citizens coming to live in Britain, often in | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
areas which have been unused to these foreign arrivals. That is why | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
immigration is one of the key issues for so many, people feel uneasy | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
about change, and because of those EU wills and free movement, | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
politicians will tell them we can do very little or nothing about it. So | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
if we leave the EU, Britain could also leave the single market. That | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
would mean we are no longer bound by the rules of free movement, and we | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
could introduce what the Leave campaign calls an Australian style | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
points system, pretty much as we already have four non-EU migrants. | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
But if people think that this is a vote to stop foreigners coming in, | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
it is not that simple. Both Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
that they are pro-migration, and they will not say that immigration | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
would go down if we leave. On the Remain side, they also talk about | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
controlling immigration. So the argument on this issue, I think, is | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
not really about numbers. It is about control, and whether shaping | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
the kind of immigration that Britain wants can be achieved better in or | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
out. Mark, thanks very much again, Mark Easton, our home editor, with | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
his thoughts on the immigration debate. | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
So with millions of votes being counted at hundreds | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
how are those results likely to come in | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
and when might we have a clear idea of the final result? | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Jeremy Vine is here with a look at what we can expect. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Yes. We have here a ballot paper that has been enlarged for you, so | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
you can see the question you might well be answering tomorrow. Very | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
simple. Remain a member or leave the European Union, two boxes. You put | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
your cross in one or other of them. The counting will happen in council | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
areas across the UK with the one exception of Northern Ireland where | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
it happens in Westminster constituency. In a way, that doesn't | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
matter. The votes are put, basically, into two boxes and | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
weighed against each other. Every vote counts the same where ever you | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
are in the country. Let's look at how we are analysing the votes when | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
they come in. Welcome to our virtual Downing Street. Blue for leave and | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
yellow for remain. We will build them from the far end of Downing | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Street. For illustration, I will make it a 50/50 scenario here. We | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
are expecting Newcastle and Sunderland to be in by midnight. | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
1.00am a result from highly euro sceptical Basildon and the Isles of | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Scilly, 1,700 voters there. By 2.00am in the morning we are | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
expected results from Scotland and East Lothian. By 3.00am bigger | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
numbers, Thanet and Bristol. Fascinatingly, Durham. As well as | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
being a large area, not a city the council area for - ham, it's a | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
50/50, part of this election. Fascinating to see which way Durham | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
goes. 4.00am in the morning the big cities come in, including Birmingham | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
and Middlesbrough and Leeds and Cardiff. Is it still going to be | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
50/50 at that stage. If so we wait until 5.00am and get more big | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
numbers from Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford. If it's that close at | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
5.00am we might wait to of.00am when we will hear from Cornwall and | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Shropshire. By 7.00am in the morning, one of these bars, blue for | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
leave, yellow for remain, should have passed the winning line that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
leads back to Number Ten Downing Street. We have a fascinating night | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
in prospect for you in here what is norm Alli the election studio but | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
tomorrow will be our referendum result studio. Huw. Looking forward | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
to it. Thank you very much, Jeremy Vine for us. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
let's get some thoughts from Brussels and from Westminster. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
We can talk to our Europe editor, Katya Adler, in Brussels, | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
and our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
about the mood in the rest of Europe tonight? | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
What is being said? Huw, tonight across Europe leaders are on the | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
edge of their seat worried about the UK referendum. None of them want | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Britain to leave. They say it as one of the big powers alongside France | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
and Germany. Also here, across the Channel, the UK is seen very much as | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
one of those fundamental powers. There is a worry that if the UK | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
leaves, this could lead to contagion elsewhere. That is a huge concern | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
for the leaders. That's why they say if the UK chooses to leave they | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
would get tough over a trade deal. UK is an attractive trade partner, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
they admit it, but they say they don't want the process to be | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
painless. They want to put others off leaving. If you look at Germany | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
and France, for example, they have key elections next year and they | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
don't want to encourage eurosceptic parties waiting in the wings. If you | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
look at some of those reasons why the Leave campaign is popular in the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
UK, those demands to get powers back from Brussels, objections to borders | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
without controls, to migration policies, allegations of Brussels | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
bureaucracy, these complaints echo across the EU. That is why recently | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
you heard the words "EU" and "reform" comes from the mouths of | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
those you might not expect. Angela Merkel today and the President of | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said, it's true, the EU | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
meddles too much. Katya, thank you very much. Straight to Westminster | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
and Laura. Here we are, we are on the eve of referendum day. We talked | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
so much in the last few weeks of this very hard-hitting campaign. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
What are your thoughts tonight? Huw, there are so many strands to all of | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
this. Through the campaign the themes have been the same, the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
economy and immigration. The grumpiness has been the same, bad | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
tempered and bruising sometimes. There has been one big change. If we | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
think back to the start of all this, which seems like a very long time | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
ago now, the narrative was very much David versus Goliath. The outers | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
felt in a short campaign it will be difficult for them to build up to a | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
position where they looked credibly, potentially, like winners in autumn | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
of this. That narrative has completely changed and in a part of | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
the world, in Westminster, where people like to feel that they are in | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the know, they like to feel they have the inside track, almost every | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
conversation I've been having in the last couple of days ends up with one | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
conclusion - it does feel like it is a apparently just too close to call. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Very informed people, people very close to the heart of things are | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
saying privately again and again, we just don't know. Rather than still | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
trying to persuade people, politicians are packing up their | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
platforms and turning their attention to getting out the vote. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
In a race that appears to be so tight, the proportion of voters on | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
either side who feel enthused or worried enough to turn up to vote, | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
it's turnout that crucial number, that momentum, that could make the | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
difference. Laura, thanks. We'll talk a little more at the end of the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
programme. Katya Adler and Laura Kuenssberg. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
A reminder that there's more referendum news, | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
with blogs from Laura and Katya and others, on our website. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
Let's turn to some of the day's other news. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
In Libya, government-backed forces have made significant gains | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
against the fighters of so-called Islamic State. | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
Local militia are being supported in a major offensive | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
The fighting has been going on since last month, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
and yesterday was the toughest day so far, with nearly 50 fighters | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
killed and over 140 injured on the government side. | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
Our Middle East correspondent, Quentin Sommerville, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
and cameraman, Fred Scott, have just returned from the front | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
line near the main IS stronghold of Sirte. | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Some viewers may find parts of their report upsetting. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
On another continent, the war against the so-called | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
Many of these Libyan fighters are fasting for Ramadan. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
After two weeks of hard fighting, they're weary, but they're readying | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
for the next offensive and bringing more fire power | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
They're close enough to IS to shout insults down the street. | :22:11. | :22:30. | |
IS has held this city for more than a year. | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
On Muammar Gaddafi's Conference Centre, their flag looms large. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
We were the first journalists to make it to the Islamic State's | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
It's the job of the men of Brigade 166 to stop IS escaping by sea. | :22:52. | :23:04. | |
"The only problem we're facing is suicide car bombs. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
We're dealing with them by taking out their tyres and firing heavy | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
There would be a battle in the morning. | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
These men have already lost nine comrades. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
500 meters away we watched the north of Sirte, there there was no rest. | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
They say this is a dirty war, neither side is taking much | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
In the morning, the next push came from the south. | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
These men have taken a lot of ground in a very short space of time, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
IS are over that hill, they're cut off and | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
This is the next offensive to face them. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
The deeper they move into the city, the greater the risk. | :24:04. | :24:15. | |
They've got little in the way of air support. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
This battle is being fought the old fashioned way. | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
The buildings that they're targeting right now contain snipers. | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
They've been mapping them for the past two weeks, thanks | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
to a drone from British Special Forces. | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
These fighters are young, but some are veterans | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
One joked, "take my picture for me, I'm going to die today." | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
And this was their bloodiest day yet. | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
50 men, mostly from nearby Misrata, died in the battle. | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
Some were taken straight from the ambulance to body bags. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Mahamood said he had to fight, "IS beheaded our children, | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
they crucified them and threw them off buildings. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
They've terrorised people and abused their faith | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Their country and their faith is at stake. | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
For Libya, only more sacrifice lies ahead. | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Sirte. | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
President Putin of Russia has blamed the West for failing to prevent | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
In a speech to the Russian Parliament - on the 75th anniversary | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
President Putin said that some Western leaders had underestimated | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
He then added that present-day leaders were in danger | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
of making the same mistake over international terrorism. | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
The Labour MP Jo Cox has been remembered at vigils around | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
the world on what would have been her 42nd birthday. | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
She died last week after being shot and stabbed | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Thousands of people, including her two young | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
children, attended an event in London's Trafalgar Square | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
as our chief correspondent, Gavin Hewitt, reports. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, and their two children, | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
Cuillin and Lejla, travelled down the Thames today to join | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
Today would have been her 42nd birthday, it's a week | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
since she was killed while holding her MPs | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
Several thousand people had gathered in Trafalgar Square, | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
many of them were holding pictures of Jo Cox, some of them had come | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
from Yorkshire, some signed pledges supporting her causes. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Her husband came on stage and spoke of how the family had coped | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
We try to remember not how cruelly she's been taken from us, | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
but how unbelievably lucky we were to have her | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
He then spoke about his wife's killing. | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
What a beautifully irony it is that an act designed to advance hatred | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
has instead generated such an outpouring of love. | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Among those who spoke was the Noble Laureate, | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
In Jo's life is the proof that a message of peace is more powerful | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
Once again, the extremists have failed. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Jo Cox's death has been a key moment in the referendum campaign, | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
sparking reflection on the tone of intense political debate, | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
on how claims and counter claims are framed. | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
But today was a day for tributes to a campaigning MP, from friends, | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
The Glastonbury Festival has announced it's now open for business | :27:56. | :28:07. | |
following a day of gridlocked roads and disruption. | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
Some people trying to get to the event in Somerset were stuck | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
Organisers said rain and muddy conditions had caused delays and had | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
The long queues also affected local residents, | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
with some pupils arriving late for school exams. | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
Football, and after today's action the home nations now know who'll | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
they'll be playing in the first knockout round of Euro 2016. | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
Our correspondent, Hywel Griffith, is with the Welsh team in the port | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
Well, Huw, it's a system so complicated it's closer to the | :28:43. | :28:57. | |
European song contest than European football. The results are in. We | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
know who the three home nations will play. Well, two of them will play | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
each other. On Saturday in Paris it's Wales versus Northern Ireland. | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
Two teams who know each other very well. They played in a friendly only | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
in March. The result of that one a draw. Of course, that can't finish | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
that way on Saturday. One of them must win and one of them will | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
definitely go through to the quarter-finals. What about the third | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
home nation? England, next Monday, they play the tournament's smallest | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
nation, Iceland, who, with a late, late goal, managed to secure their | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
place in the tournament. For most of the day it seemed as if England | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
would play against Portugal. I'm sure Roy Hodgson's men were cheering | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
in that Icelandic goal. That game in Monday in Nice. The result of the | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
night belongs to the Republic of Ireland who tonight beat Italy, | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
keeping their place in the tournament. Their game is against | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
the hosts, France on Sunday. OK. We are look forward to it all. Thanks | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
very much. High we will Griffith there for us in. | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
Rory McIlroy has pulled out of competing | :30:04. | :30:05. | |
at this summer's Olympic Games in Rio | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
because of concerns about the Zika virus. | :30:08. | :30:08. | |
The four-time Major winner - who was due to represent Ireland - | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
said that although the risk of infection is considered low, | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
it wasn't a risk he was prepared to take. | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
So the polling stations will be open in just over eight hours' time | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
in every part of the United Kingdom, as voters make the biggest decision | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
on our place in Europe since the 1970s. | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
The campaigning on this last day has been relentless. | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
So let's take stock with my colleagues - | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
Chris Buckler in Northern Ireland, near the border | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
with the Republic of Ireland, Sian Lloyd in Cardiff, | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
and first our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, in Glasgow. | :30:41. | :30:42. | |
Sarah, what's your assessment of the feeling there? | :30:43. | :30:52. | |
Well, the really intriguing thing about the campaign in Scotland has | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
been that all the major party leaders agree, they all want to | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
remain, and there have not been any high-profile politicians campaigning | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
to leave. But if leaving is what the voters of the UK do decide, it could | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
have really profound implications. In. That is because the leader of | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, has said repeatedly that if Scotland is, in | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
her words, dragged out of the EU against its will, it could trigger a | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
second referendum on Scottish independence. That is not what she | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
says she wants, she is campaigning for a vote to remain, because she | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
doesn't really want a referendum in those circumstances quite so | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
quickly. And anyway, voters in Scotland are starting to look pretty | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
weary, because this is the fourth major electoral event in this | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
country in a little over 18 months. In Wales, leading politicians from | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
both sides of the divide have been making a final push for the Welsh | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
vote tonight in a televised debate on BBC Wales, and over the course of | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
the past week in campaigning, there has been a palpable sense of urgency | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
here. On both sides, politicians careering up and down the country, | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
trying to get their key messages across. Remain reminding people of | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
what they call a lucrative relationship between Wales and | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
Europe, ?4 billion of structural aid over the past 16 years to some of | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
the poorest parts of the country, including the South Wales Valleys. | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
There has been talk that a withdrawal could damage the economy. | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
But there are opponents say that EU thundered projects would still be | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
financed if there was a vote to leave. In the traditional Labour | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
heartlands, there are serious concerns over immigration, talk | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
about disillusionment with politics. A vote to leave in this tightly run | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
contest could be crucial to the result here. Narrow water here in | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
County Down is a well named place, because a short stretch of water | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
behind me marks the point when Northern Ireland needs the Republic | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
of Ireland, and on the shared island much of the referendum debate has | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
focused on the question of what would happen to that border if there | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
was to be a vote to leave. As it is, there is much trade across this open | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
border every day. The Remain campaigners have argued that customs | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
checkpoints or perhaps even extra security might have to be introduced | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
if the Irish border were to become the point where the UK Med the EU. | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
However, Leave campaigners have pointed out that the Common travel | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
area has existed for decades, allowing travel between the UK and | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
Ireland, and that doesn't need to change. Other questions being | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
discussed here are questions about identity and sovereignty, the | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
Rangers to the political debate here in Northern Ireland, but often | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
people talk about whether they feel British, Irish or Northern Irish. | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
This has been different, it is about whether people feel European and, | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
indeed, Huw, how European they want to be. Thanks very much, Chris | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
Buckler, Sian Lloyd and Sarah Smith. Some views for you from Wales, | :34:04. | :34:05. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, where immigration | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
and the economy have also featured prominently, | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
for some voters the central question has been one of sovereignty | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
and Britain's place in the world. Our diplomatic correspondent, | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
James Landale, has been talking Welcome to Melton Mowbray | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
in Leicestershire, home to stilton cheese, the town's famous pork pies, | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
and one of England's oldest markets. Home too to voters for whom | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
this referendum but about something | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
much more fundamental. We was a great nation once, | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
let's bring it back. We should govern yourselves, | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
shouldn't we? Yeah. We don't really need | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
to be told what to do. Why? Why? We'll be in | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
control of ourselves. For many, tomorrow's referendum | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
boils down to one question - should our laws be made | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
in Brussels or Westminster? But in a town whose pork pie | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
is protected from cheap imitation | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
by EU regulations, some fear more sovereignty | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
could mean less influence. I want to be making decisions | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
with them for the good of the Continent | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
and wider people. If the EU decides it for me, that's | :35:15. | :35:16. | |
just as good for me as Westminster. We probably get a fairer | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
debate within Europe. When Britain joined the European | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
Economic Community in 1973, in return for a say | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
over its biggest market. But that was a step too far | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
for Richard Stubbs, a farmer from Derby, | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
who thinks Britain should leave and look for new markets, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
just as he's done today. I've taken a step forward | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
to come to the markets myself, and my opinion is that | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
it's the same as our country, we don't need all these other places | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
coming and helping themselves. You've got to have the confidence, | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
you know, to go and stand in there, find the dealers, find the customers | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
and sell to them. Do you think Britain should | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
be like that, too? But Matthew O'Callaghan, | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
chairman of the local Pork Pie Association, fears losing a seat | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
at the EU's top table. We give up some of our sovereignty | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
to the United Nations as being members of the United Nations, | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
we give up some of our sovereignty locally to local council, | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
to Westminster. You know, you have to accept that | :36:20. | :36:21. | |
if you want to get the benefits from food tourism related | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
to pork pies and stilton cheese that could actually possibly | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
disappear almost overnight. This campaign's been dominated | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
by claim and counterclaim about what impact leaving | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
the EU might have on immigration and the economy, | :36:43. | :36:44. | |
but much of that is speculation. What we know for certain is that | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
who decides the laws that affect markets like these and others | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
is on the ballot paper. Should we keep our seat in Brussels | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
or return powers to Westminster? By demanding more control | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
over immigration, this is a debate where Leave | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
have made much of the running. Remain say it's an illusion | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
of sovereignty that would leave Britain | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
with less control. James Langdale, BBC News, | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
Melton Mowbray. Time for a final word with our | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Laura, the next few hours | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
will have a profound impact It's certainly well, Huw, and | :37:25. | :37:38. | |
referenda, by their very nature, force the nation into two boxes. I | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
do not think that has been a comfortable process for the country, | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
and it certainly will not be comfortable in the aftermath, | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
whatever the result. What happens to the Tory party, to David Cameron | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
after all these bruising rows, has the Labour Party just really | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
discovered how disconnected they are from the voters that they used to | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
rely on? More positively, perhaps, has a new generation of younger | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
voters been mobilised for the first time? But you know, more than any of | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
that, it is so rare as a country, as individuals, that we have a moment | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
like this, a chance where we go into the polling booth, draw back the | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
curtain, pick up the pencil and put a cross in a box to make a decision | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
that has profound implications not just for us here in the UK, but | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
potentially could change the political map of a whole continent. | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
It really is time for deep breaths all round, Huw, because the decision | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
is as big as that. Laura, thanks very much, at Westminster, Laura | :38:39. | :38:39. | |
Kuenssberg there. That's all from us in | :38:40. | :38:41. | |
the BBC referendum studio. The results programme will start | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
here tomorrow night at 9:55pm, with all the news as it unfolds, | :38:45. | :38:46. | |
right through the night, until the verdict of | :38:47. | :38:48. | |
the voters is clear, In a moment, the news where you are, | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
but we leave you with some of the most memorable words | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
and images - including some flash photography - | :38:57. | :38:58. | |
of this referendum campaign. I shall go to Parliament | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
and propose that the British people decide our future in Europe | :39:01. | :39:07. | |
through an in-out referendum We have a chance | :39:08. | :39:09. | |
actually to do something. I have a chance actually | :39:10. | :39:21. | |
to do something. I would like to see | :39:22. | :39:23. | |
a new relationship based more on trade, | :39:24. | :39:25. | |
on co-operation, but as I say, with much less | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
of this supranational element. we are safer inside | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
a reformed European Union. Why are you leaping | :39:35. | :39:44. | |
into the unknown? We're not leaping | :39:45. | :39:58. | |
into the unknown... We don't know what it's | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
like outside of Europe. But the economy has changed | :40:02. | :40:03. | |
since we last were out of Europe. Has it or has it not? | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
No! | :40:12. | :40:15. |