:00:00. > :00:07.The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, claims a personal victory
:00:08. > :00:13.as Sweden drops a long-running rape investigation against him.
:00:14. > :00:15.Appearing on the balcony at Ecuador's embassy in London,
:00:16. > :00:18.where he's lived for five years to avoid extradition,
:00:19. > :00:22.he says he's angry at how he's been treated.
:00:23. > :00:28.Seven years without charge while my children grew up without me.
:00:29. > :00:32.That is not something that I can forgive.
:00:33. > :00:40.It is not something that I can forget.
:00:41. > :00:43.No answers on his future, but Scotland Yard says
:00:44. > :00:48.he still faces arrest for skipping bail if he leaves the embassy.
:00:49. > :00:51.Today, his alleged victim expressed her shock
:00:52. > :00:53.at the decision to drop the rape investigation
:00:54. > :00:57.and said she stood by her allegation.
:00:58. > :01:00.as Donald Trump heads to Saudi Arabia
:01:01. > :01:03.on his first foreign trip as President, the White House
:01:04. > :01:05.is engulfed in fresh claims about links to Russia.
:01:06. > :01:08.Theresa May is forced to defend her election pledge
:01:09. > :01:10.to scrap winter fuel payments for some pensioners,
:01:11. > :01:13.as divisions open up within her party.
:01:14. > :01:16.Graveyard serial killer Stephen Port - his victims' families
:01:17. > :01:19.say they're dismayed by an inquiry's slow progress
:01:20. > :01:21.into why police took so long to catch him.
:01:22. > :01:28.And selling, thank you, sir, for $98 million!
:01:29. > :01:31.A painting by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,
:01:32. > :01:37.who died 30 years ago, is sold for a record-breaking price.
:01:38. > :01:39.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:01:40. > :02:05.in the final of the European Championship.
:02:06. > :02:09.The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange,
:02:10. > :02:13.after a seven-year rape investigation in Sweden
:02:14. > :02:20.For almost five of those years, Mr Assange has been holed up
:02:21. > :02:24.inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition.
:02:25. > :02:25.But today's development doesn't mean
:02:26. > :02:27.that the 45-year-old can finally walk free.
:02:28. > :02:29.Police say they would still be obliged
:02:30. > :02:31.to arrest him if he left the embassy.
:02:32. > :02:33.And the United States may also take legal action against him
:02:34. > :02:35.for leaking secret official documents.
:02:36. > :02:38.Our correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story.
:02:39. > :02:43.Her report includes flashing images from the start.
:02:44. > :02:50.On the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy,
:02:51. > :02:53.Julian Assange emerged this afternoon
:02:54. > :02:55.to have his say on the end of the Swedish
:02:56. > :03:11.for me and for the UN human rights system.
:03:12. > :03:18.Seven years without charge while my children grew up without me.
:03:19. > :03:23.That is not something that I can forgive.
:03:24. > :03:28.It is not something that I can forget.
:03:29. > :03:31.But the prosecutor in Sweden hasn't cleared Julian Assange.
:03:32. > :03:37.she simply couldn't pursue the case any further.
:03:38. > :03:44.TRANSLATION: The decision to discontinue the investigation
:03:45. > :03:46.is not based on an assessment of the evidence but because
:03:47. > :03:49.we don't see possibilities to advance the investigation further,
:03:50. > :03:51.so we do not make any statement on the issue of guilt.
:03:52. > :03:55.This complex international drama began in 2010 when two women alleged
:03:56. > :03:58.that Julian Assange had sexually assaulted them on a visit to Sweden
:03:59. > :04:04.He was detained in Britain on a European arrest warrant.
:04:05. > :04:07.In May 2012, the Supreme Court upheld a decision
:04:08. > :04:12.to extradite him to Sweden for questioning.
:04:13. > :04:15.And in June, Mr Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
:04:16. > :04:22.The Metropolitan Police mounted a 24-hour guard at the embassy.
:04:23. > :04:28.By October 2015, it had cost over ?30 million.
:04:29. > :04:33.Julian Assange is no longer wanted on an international arrest warrant,
:04:34. > :04:36.but the police say that if he stepped out of the embassy,
:04:37. > :04:41.for failing to surrender to a London court back in 2012.
:04:42. > :04:48.At the embassy this evening, his supporters were jubilant.
:04:49. > :04:51.But in Sweden, the woman who accused him of rape
:04:52. > :04:53.issued a statement saying he was evading justice
:04:54. > :04:58.and expressing her shock at the investigation was being shelved.
:04:59. > :05:01.Julian Assange was not held without charge for seven years -
:05:02. > :05:03.he was subject to extradition proceedings within the EU,
:05:04. > :05:07.under the European arrest warrant scheme.
:05:08. > :05:09.He would have received a fair trial in Sweden,
:05:10. > :05:16.and the fact that proceedings lasted seven years was entirely down
:05:17. > :05:18.to him seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy,
:05:19. > :05:22.in a country that is governed by the rule of law.
:05:23. > :05:27.It was this footage of an American helicopter shooting civilians
:05:28. > :05:29.in Iraq that first brought WikiLeaks to international attention.
:05:30. > :05:33.A flood of other state secrets followed.
:05:34. > :05:37.Julian Assange has always said it was his fear of extradition
:05:38. > :05:39.to the US that drove him through the doors
:05:40. > :05:44.So despite today's dramatic twist in this long-running
:05:45. > :05:48.diplomatic and legal saga, tonight he's back inside -
:05:49. > :06:04.We don't know if the US Government is actually planning to ask for his
:06:05. > :06:08.extradition, but the US Attorney general said recently that he wanted
:06:09. > :06:13.Mr Assange arrested. Now, Ecuador has asked Britain to give Mr Assange
:06:14. > :06:16.safe passage, no sign of that happening, so for the moment Julian
:06:17. > :06:22.Assange stays here. But Scotland Yard has said that there will be
:06:23. > :06:23.reduced police resources now for their operation. Caroline Hawley,
:06:24. > :06:25.thank you. It's reported tonight that
:06:26. > :06:27.President Trump told Russian officials at the White House that
:06:28. > :06:30.firing the FBI director James Comey the President was under
:06:31. > :06:34.because of Russia. The New York Times says
:06:35. > :06:36.he also referred to Comey Another report says
:06:37. > :06:41.a current White House official is a significant person of interest
:06:42. > :06:44.in the investigation into possible ties between Trump's presidential
:06:45. > :06:47.campaign and Russia. The latest claims come
:06:48. > :06:50.as President Trump flew out of Washington
:06:51. > :06:53.on his first overseas trip. He's heading to Saudia Arabia,
:06:54. > :06:57.where he's due to meet Arab leaders, before travelling on
:06:58. > :06:59.to Jerusalem and Rome. Well, our North America editor,
:07:00. > :07:02.Jon Sopel, is in Riyadh, where President Trump
:07:03. > :07:04.will arrive later. Jon, what more can you tell us
:07:05. > :07:19.about these developments tonight? Well, these are extraordinary
:07:20. > :07:23.allegations from the New York Times, of what Donald Trump said in that
:07:24. > :07:29.contested a meeting with Sergei Lavrov ten days ago. He said, I just
:07:30. > :07:32.fired the head of the FBI, she was crazy, a real nutjob, I faced
:07:33. > :07:36.greater pressure because of Russia, that is taken off. In other words,
:07:37. > :07:40.the pressure is removed because he had removed James Comey. The White
:07:41. > :07:45.House has issued a statement while the president was in midair, far
:07:46. > :07:48.from pushing back and saying this is nonsense, exaggerated, it says, the
:07:49. > :07:53.president has always emphasised the importance of making deals with
:07:54. > :07:57.Russia - by grandstanding and politicising the investigation into
:07:58. > :08:02.Russia's access, James, created unnecessary pressure on our ability
:08:03. > :08:05.to negotiate with Russia. Two things quickly, it makes clear that James
:08:06. > :08:10.Comey was fired because of the Russian investigation. And nothing
:08:11. > :08:15.else. And secondly, it raises the question of whether the president
:08:16. > :08:19.has engaged in the obstruction of justice by holding an investigation
:08:20. > :08:23.by James Comey. And that has potentially very, very serious
:08:24. > :08:26.consequences. Now, the White House wheel spin that, saying it is not
:08:27. > :08:30.Donald Trump try to protect themselves legally, he was trying to
:08:31. > :08:34.protect the national interest, but it is another extraordinary twist in
:08:35. > :08:38.this whole drama. And it comes as President Trump is setting off on
:08:39. > :08:46.his first official trip abroad as president, is this likely to
:08:47. > :08:50.overshadow that? The glib answer is he would love it too, but it's not
:08:51. > :08:57.going to, because of course this issue will keep on carrying on. That
:08:58. > :09:00.said, this is a highly important trip for President Trump. Despite
:09:01. > :09:03.all that he has said about Muslims during the campaign, keeping them
:09:04. > :09:08.out of America, the responsibility of Saudi Arabia for 9/11, there will
:09:09. > :09:14.be the warmest of welcomes for him here. Two reasons, one, he is not
:09:15. > :09:18.Barack Obama, and the Saudis grew to really dislike. I was here one year
:09:19. > :09:22.ago with Barack Obama, and he received the coolest of receptions.
:09:23. > :09:28.The other reason he will receive the warmest of welcomes is because he
:09:29. > :09:32.has been taking a very tough stand on Iran. Just arriving in from the
:09:33. > :09:35.airport, there were billboards across the motorway, huge pictures
:09:36. > :09:41.of Donald Trump Andy King saying, together we prevail. He will like
:09:42. > :09:43.that - he will not like some of the other reporting. Jon Sopel, thank
:09:44. > :09:45.you. There are divisions opening up
:09:46. > :09:47.tonight within the Conservative Party over its manifesto commitment
:09:48. > :09:49.to means-test winter fuel The Scottish Conservative
:09:50. > :09:52.leader, Ruth Davidson, said she was in favour
:09:53. > :09:54.of retaining the payment But the Prime Minister argued
:09:55. > :09:58.it was unfair that wealthy pensioners received the money
:09:59. > :10:01.while some families were struggling. Here's our deputy political
:10:02. > :10:04.editor, John Pienaar. Would you trust her to keep things
:10:05. > :10:08.running, or to run your economy? But has Theresa May dropped
:10:09. > :10:11.a spanner in the works by keeping people guessing
:10:12. > :10:14.about her tax and spending plans, about who'd keep and who'd lose
:10:15. > :10:22.the winter fuel allowance? that the least well off
:10:23. > :10:28.pensioners are protected. But if you look at the situation
:10:29. > :10:32.at the moment, we see well off pensioners able to be supported
:10:33. > :10:34.with their fuel bills, when struggling ordinary
:10:35. > :10:35.working families are not. I think there's a principle
:10:36. > :10:40.of fairness that underpins this. But that's not
:10:41. > :10:43.how all Tories see it, especially Scottish Conservatives
:10:44. > :10:45.under their leader, Ruth Davidson, The Scottish Tory manifesto,
:10:46. > :10:51.published today, says, "Social security devolution
:10:52. > :10:54.allows us to make different choices in Scotland,
:10:55. > :10:57.and so we will protect universal winter fuel payments
:10:58. > :10:59.for all older people and they will not be
:11:00. > :11:04.subject to means testing." We believe there shouldn't be means
:11:05. > :11:07.testing for the winter fuel payment. The reason that we've said that is,
:11:08. > :11:10.as many of your viewers will acknowledge, Scotland has
:11:11. > :11:13.a colder climate, we also have a different amount of housing
:11:14. > :11:15.stock, and devolution allows Mrs May's answer - she's writing
:11:16. > :11:21.policy south of the border. As a government, we have given
:11:22. > :11:24.the Scottish Government significant powers in relation to welfare,
:11:25. > :11:27.and they make a number of decisions about various welfare
:11:28. > :11:35.benefits in Scotland. More voters might feel the same
:11:36. > :11:41.if Jeremy Corbyn's promise to protect the fuel allowance
:11:42. > :11:43.and pensions catches on. Labour's been attacked over
:11:44. > :11:45.tax and spending plans What she's done is caused
:11:46. > :11:52.a huge amount of anxiety, she hasn't said what level
:11:53. > :11:54.she's going to change it. We think the fuel allowance
:11:55. > :11:56.should be kept, and it will be kept under Labour,
:11:57. > :12:00.and it will be universal. Just one way for the SNP full to go
:12:01. > :12:03.- right at Theresa May. Well, I think taking the winter fuel
:12:04. > :12:06.payment away from pensioners who have worked hard and paid
:12:07. > :12:09.in all their life is just wrong. You know, the winter fuel payment
:12:10. > :12:14.is not a king's ransom. Not all Tories south of Scotland
:12:15. > :12:17.agree with Mrs May on pensioners, One former Minister told me
:12:18. > :12:22.they'd be opposing her, and that's one reason
:12:23. > :12:28.it's happening. Mrs May wants more backing
:12:29. > :12:32.for potentially unpopular decisions if public money gets tighter
:12:33. > :12:34.after Brexit, and you can bet she'd hesitate
:12:35. > :12:37.to make risky promises if she wasn't so confident
:12:38. > :12:39.of winning. Tories look upbeat
:12:40. > :12:41.about this campaign for a lot of people afterwards,
:12:42. > :12:48.whoever wins. The serial killer Stephen Port
:12:49. > :12:56.was jailed for life last year Their bodies were all found outside
:12:57. > :13:02.his flat or in a churchyard nearby. Yet their deaths were not initially
:13:03. > :13:05.treated as murder, and detectives missed a number of chances
:13:06. > :13:07.to catch the killer. Now the families of the victims
:13:08. > :13:10.say they're dismayed by the slow progress of an inquiry into why
:13:11. > :13:13.police took so long to catch him. Here's our home affairs
:13:14. > :13:16.correspondent Daniel Sandford. The graveyard in Barking that was
:13:17. > :13:19.Stephen Port's dumping ground for three of the bodies
:13:20. > :13:22.of the four men he killed
:13:23. > :13:24.with the date-rape drug GHB. His first victim
:13:25. > :13:26.was 23-year-old Anthony Walgate, Their families have been waiting
:13:27. > :13:31.for an investigation by the Independent Police
:13:32. > :13:35.Complaints Commission that there was a serial killer
:13:36. > :13:39.at work for so long. But this week, they told me
:13:40. > :13:43.their patience has run out. I don't feel that the IPCC are in
:13:44. > :13:49.control of the investigation at all. I think it's the police dictating
:13:50. > :13:52.to what stage it goes, what pace it goes,
:13:53. > :13:56.which is disgusting. I think we had to fight
:13:57. > :13:59.the police to listen, and now we're having to
:14:00. > :14:02.do the same for the IPCC Stephen Port used dating apps
:14:03. > :14:08.to lure the men to his home. He then gave them
:14:09. > :14:10.lethal doses of GHB. His first victim, Anthony Walgate,
:14:11. > :14:14.was found outside the door of Port's flat, the others
:14:15. > :14:17.in or near the local churchyard The police were asked
:14:18. > :14:22.on numerous occasions The IPCC investigation
:14:23. > :14:28.is designed to work out why detectives were so reluctant
:14:29. > :14:30.to connect them. But 20 months on, not a single
:14:31. > :14:35.police officer has been questioned. The BBC has been told
:14:36. > :14:38.that the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation
:14:39. > :14:41.team is itself frustrated and dismayed by the delay
:14:42. > :14:46.in interviewing the officers. I understand that's being
:14:47. > :14:48.caused by the officers, the Police Federation
:14:49. > :14:51.and their lawyers asking for more time to examine
:14:52. > :14:56.the 7000 pages of evidence. Though in public today,
:14:57. > :14:59.the IPCC was playing down the row, saying it had agreed that the
:15:00. > :15:04.detectives should have more time. The families told me they're worried
:15:05. > :15:07.that any further delays will lead to officers forgetting why they made
:15:08. > :15:14.the decisions they did. It's like very frustrating,
:15:15. > :15:17.it's disappointing, it's like you're being let down all over again,
:15:18. > :15:20.and I think we all feel that, You shouldn't have to keep
:15:21. > :15:24.chasing things up - after everything that
:15:25. > :15:25.we've been through. It is very, very frustrating,
:15:26. > :15:28.because I really thought the IPCC would be totally independent,
:15:29. > :15:31.be more professional, and a lot They want to know if police just
:15:32. > :15:37.jumped to conclusions and assumed that gay men dying from date-rape
:15:38. > :15:40.drug overdoses was something normal and not worth
:15:41. > :15:45.treating with suspicion. A brief look at some of the day's
:15:46. > :15:50.other other news stories. A former Newcastle United football
:15:51. > :15:53.coach, George Ormond, has been charged with 29 historical
:15:54. > :15:55.sexual offences alleged to have Mr Ormond, who is 61,
:15:56. > :16:00.is due to appear before A man has been jailed
:16:01. > :16:09.for more than nine years for a hit-and-run crash which killed
:16:10. > :16:13.a four-year-old girl. Aidan McAteer lost control
:16:14. > :16:15.of the stolen car at Violet-Grace Youens was being
:16:16. > :16:18.carried by her grandmother - Greater Manchester Police say Moors
:16:19. > :16:28.murderer Ian Brady's body shouldn't be cremated in the city
:16:29. > :16:31.or surrounding area where he carried out his crimes out of respect
:16:32. > :16:33.to his victims' families. It's been a year since the ban
:16:34. > :16:39.on so-called "legal highs" came into effect -
:16:40. > :16:41.but they are still available Known as new psycho-active
:16:42. > :16:53.substances, or "Spice" - the legal highs were made Class B
:16:54. > :16:58.drugs which meant they had to be taken off the shelves
:16:59. > :17:00.on the high street. They may not be visible now -
:17:01. > :17:03.but there are warnings that the sale of Spice has been driven underground
:17:04. > :17:06.as Jeremy Cooke reports. There are new psychoactive
:17:07. > :17:07.substances, NPS. Not so much a problem,
:17:08. > :17:09.more so an epidemic. It's got the kind of
:17:10. > :17:15.psychological addiction you might associate with crack
:17:16. > :17:18.cocaine and the physical addiction and withdrawals that you'd
:17:19. > :17:19.associate with heroin. Just because they say it's illegal
:17:20. > :17:26.doesn't mean you can't get it. That just makes people more
:17:27. > :17:32.determined to get it. In Edinburgh the drug
:17:33. > :17:35.subculture has been all about heroin, the needle
:17:36. > :17:38.and the syringe, so here many chose That drug, it's the worst that
:17:39. > :17:58.I've ever experienced. Worse than all of them put
:17:59. > :18:06.together but better. There is quite a bit
:18:07. > :18:10.of drug use around here. The Streetwork charity's outreach
:18:11. > :18:12.team are here to help. They've seen first-hand
:18:13. > :18:15.the devastation caused by NPS. Edinburgh was among the first
:18:16. > :18:18.cities in the UK to ban Even the users I've
:18:19. > :18:27.spoken to who now no longer use speak to me about how
:18:28. > :18:30.that was a terrible episode in their lives and how they're
:18:31. > :18:32.glad now that the ban But NPS is still on
:18:33. > :18:36.the streets here, as Friends have died, others have been
:18:37. > :18:43.left with terrible scars. The drug destroys the flesh
:18:44. > :18:46.where it's injected. There's a few of my mates
:18:47. > :18:49.who have got holes in That's because of
:18:50. > :18:58.a legal highs, yeah. A mega haul of seized
:18:59. > :19:00.street Spice at the headquarters of Police
:19:01. > :19:03.Scotland's NPS unit, the only one of Each one gram package costs
:19:04. > :19:11.a tenner, enough here for countless hits with a street value
:19:12. > :19:15.of hundreds thousands of pounds. Even before the ban Police Scotland
:19:16. > :19:18.had been working to take out assembly plants like this one,
:19:19. > :19:21.where NPS brought in from China was prepared and packaged ready
:19:22. > :19:26.to flood the streets. We will never arrest our way
:19:27. > :19:29.out of the issue of new It's about informing
:19:30. > :19:33.young people of the And making sure that they make
:19:34. > :19:40.as best an informed decision At Manchester Metropolitan
:19:41. > :19:49.University they're preparing a Early conclusions
:19:50. > :19:52.are that Spice dealing But it's still available
:19:53. > :20:01.and extremely dangerous. Some estimates have suggested
:20:02. > :20:03.that it's 700 times more potent than traditional
:20:04. > :20:06.forms of cannabis. As soon as you take one street
:20:07. > :20:08.dealer out they're just replaced the next day
:20:09. > :20:10.with somebody else. I don't think you're going to stop
:20:11. > :20:13.the street-level dealing. And if you have
:20:14. > :20:17.dealers you have this. For the young street homeless here
:20:18. > :20:19.Spice remains a clear and It's made vulnerable people more
:20:20. > :20:24.vulnerable, people are turning on each other, people who had smoked
:20:25. > :20:27.together are now selling to each other, stealing
:20:28. > :20:29.from each other. People are being put out to beg
:20:30. > :20:32.in order to pay for their It's just made things
:20:33. > :20:35.a hundred times worse. For Beth the ban on legal highs
:20:36. > :20:38.has been irrelevant. She's clean now but just
:20:39. > :20:42.a couple of months ago this 22-year-old single mum
:20:43. > :20:45.was on the streets and on the Spice. I didn't wash, I didn't
:20:46. > :20:48.clean my hair, I didn't care about nothing,
:20:49. > :20:50.I wasn't bothered, it just I think you need to look
:20:51. > :20:59.at the mental health and that. There's a reason why people
:21:00. > :21:02.are wanting to smoke it, not just because it's banned,
:21:03. > :21:03.not because it's legal, there's a problem with that person,
:21:04. > :21:12.that they can't deal with their A year in then the ban
:21:13. > :21:15.is having mixed success. Spice is no longer on sale
:21:16. > :21:18.in high street shops. But the young and the homeless
:21:19. > :21:21.are still finding it, still learning that a new kind of high comes
:21:22. > :21:24.with a new kind of low. Voting has finally ended tonight
:21:25. > :21:30.in Iran's presidential elections after polling stations had to be
:21:31. > :21:34.kept open much longer than they were meant to be because
:21:35. > :21:37.of an unexpectedly high turnout. Long queues formed across
:21:38. > :21:40.the country where the relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani
:21:41. > :21:43.is facing a strong challenge from a hardline conservative
:21:44. > :21:45.rival, Ebrahim Raisi. Our Middle East editor,
:21:46. > :21:52.Jeremy Bowen has this assessment of how the outcome could
:21:53. > :21:54.affect Iran's future. People are encouraged to vote
:21:55. > :22:00.in Iran because it gives the system legitimacy but the election,
:22:01. > :22:02.as ever, isn't free have to be approved
:22:03. > :22:07.by the unelected Guardian Council. It's looking like a close race
:22:08. > :22:10.between the main candidates. At this polling station
:22:11. > :22:13.they were supporting Hassan Rouhani, TRANSLATION: I want
:22:14. > :22:18.social justice, social freedoms and political development,
:22:19. > :22:20.and good relations with all TRANSLATION: We will stand
:22:21. > :22:30.in these queues for as long as it's needed
:22:31. > :22:35.in order not to go backwards, for the shadow
:22:36. > :22:39.of the Iranian elections
:22:40. > :22:42.with all their flaws produce vigorous campaigns
:22:43. > :22:43.and Candidates have traded accusations
:22:44. > :22:48.of corruption and criticised Iran's Remarks that at other times
:22:49. > :22:57.could land Iranians in jail. Iranians don't seem
:22:58. > :22:58.particularly enthused by For many it's a choice
:22:59. > :23:02.between bad and worse. The main challenger
:23:03. > :23:07.is Ebrahim Raisi. He is a veteran
:23:08. > :23:09.conservative hardliner. He is deeply suspicious
:23:10. > :23:17.of the West and if he wins there
:23:18. > :23:18.could be crises ahead. President Hassan Rouhani wants
:23:19. > :23:24.to have another term. He's a moderate who would like more
:23:25. > :23:27.openness in politics and society. Rouhani was elected last time
:23:28. > :23:29.because he promised better relations with the outside world and
:23:30. > :23:32.the relaxation of economic sanctions through making a deal
:23:33. > :23:35.about Iran's nuclear plans. President Rouhani is running
:23:36. > :23:38.on the success of the deal in which Iran accepted restrictions
:23:39. > :23:44.on its nuclear industry. If he loses it's
:23:45. > :23:46.because voters think he's Raisi opposed the nuclear
:23:47. > :23:53.deal when it was being negotiated but now says he'd
:23:54. > :23:55.keep it, though he insists his toughness will make
:23:56. > :23:58.sure Iran stays strong. Whoever's going to be the next
:23:59. > :24:03.Iranian President, whether it be Hassan Rouhani or Ebrahim Raisi,
:24:04. > :24:06.it's going to change the tenor of Iranian politics, its ability
:24:07. > :24:11.to dialogue with the international community and the West, particularly
:24:12. > :24:14.the United States, and also its relationship with its
:24:15. > :24:18.neighbours in the region. Whoever wins will have to work
:24:19. > :24:20.with the supreme leader In Iran he has the power
:24:21. > :24:30.and the last word. Viewed from Tehran, the country's
:24:31. > :24:34.a regional power with legitimate security interests and the right to
:24:35. > :24:40.help allies like the Syrian regime. But that alarms its adversaries,
:24:41. > :24:43.especially the US, the Saudis and Back to the election now -
:24:44. > :24:57.and the UK's vote to leave the EU was seen by some as an indication
:24:58. > :25:00.that many feel immigration and globalisation has changed
:25:01. > :25:02.communities too quickly - with British - or in
:25:03. > :25:04.some cases English - In the last of our series
:25:05. > :25:07.about the new politics, our correspondent Alex Forsyth
:25:08. > :25:09.reports from two different locations on the English south coast
:25:10. > :25:12.which have seen significant economic and social change, and asks
:25:13. > :25:14.how it might factor Scattered along Kent's coastline,
:25:15. > :25:20.seaside towns once host to There is some regeneration
:25:21. > :25:29.but these traditional communities have seen
:25:30. > :25:36.undeniable change. The indoor bowlers of Margate have
:25:37. > :25:38.borne witness to the Margate from the 70s has
:25:39. > :25:45.changed so much it's There's so many immigrants
:25:46. > :25:54.who have come in and Do you think people
:25:55. > :25:57.still feel this is No, because every shop has got
:25:58. > :26:02.Indians running them. There's Polish shops,
:26:03. > :26:03.there's Afghanistan shops, which is fine, I've got
:26:04. > :26:06.nothing against that. But it's pushing the English
:26:07. > :26:13.traditions out of our lives. This part of town is home
:26:14. > :26:15.to many EU migrants. B and boarding houses
:26:16. > :26:18.have become flats. Barry Gardiner's barber's has been
:26:19. > :26:29.here nearly 30 years. Many of his customers
:26:30. > :26:31.backed Brexit to A lot of people have
:26:32. > :26:36.felt they've been The borders, I think,
:26:37. > :26:42.have been too much, let too many They don't realise
:26:43. > :26:52.England is only a small The EU referendum,
:26:53. > :26:56.the question of Britain's place in the world,
:26:57. > :27:00.and to some extent talk of Scotland's place
:27:01. > :27:06.in the UK, has raised issues of culture and identity
:27:07. > :27:08.and it's left many seeking up for them, their society, their
:27:09. > :27:12.community, and their way of life. Along the coast Southampton
:27:13. > :27:14.too has changed. The busy port is still key
:27:15. > :27:17.to the local economy. But shipbuilding and manufacturing
:27:18. > :27:19.no longer dominate. In the suburban
:27:20. > :27:23.streets it's not just immigration, but also job insecurity
:27:24. > :27:30.and rising house prices that have altered neighbourhoods and left
:27:31. > :27:34.some feeling unsettled by the pace of change,
:27:35. > :27:36.wanting their values # One, two, three, four, it's got
:27:37. > :27:45.to be my favourite time of year. Like the members of this local choir
:27:46. > :28:09.they epitomise community spirit but fear beyond the church hall that's
:28:10. > :28:11.fragmenting as people There are a lot of young people
:28:12. > :28:15.who are, you know, in Unless you have a couple
:28:16. > :28:18.with a fairly substantial income their chances of actually
:28:19. > :28:20.getting on the property It does affect communities a lot
:28:21. > :28:24.because, as you say, People work further away
:28:25. > :28:28.from where they live so their colleagues are spread out
:28:29. > :28:30.in different places, their family is spread out
:28:31. > :28:32.in different places. If anything there is more sort
:28:33. > :28:43.of division in our society at the moment, as a result of recent
:28:44. > :28:46.political decisions that have been made and society as a whole
:28:47. > :28:48.is more polarised. I think in a way we kind
:28:49. > :28:52.of have to create our own In this election who can speak
:28:53. > :28:55.to these communities might dictate who gets to shape
:28:56. > :28:57.the future of the country. It seems old values still matter
:28:58. > :29:11.in the new politics. The American artist Jean-Michel
:29:12. > :29:16.Basquiat came to prominence as a graffiti artist in the 1970s. He
:29:17. > :29:25.died at the age of just 27 from a heroin overdose almost 30 years ago.
:29:26. > :29:29.But now one of his works has just sold at auction for $110 million.
:29:30. > :29:30.It's a record for any American artist.
:29:31. > :29:35.So what's behind the phenomenal demand for his work?
:29:36. > :29:36.Here's our arts editor Will Gompertz.
:29:37. > :29:42.The moment is about to arrive at Sotheby's last night.
:29:43. > :29:45.When the American neo-expressionist painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who
:29:46. > :29:48.Is that a bid, sir? $69 million.
:29:49. > :29:52.I'm selling it on this side of the room.
:29:53. > :29:56.A fair warning and selling, thank you, sir, for $98 million.
:29:57. > :30:03.The sale price when commissions are included puts him in
:30:04. > :30:05.the exclusive auction house $100 million plus club.
:30:06. > :30:08.Along with Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon.
:30:09. > :30:11.We definitely had an idea that everybody felt that it was a
:30:12. > :30:14.masterpiece but the air gets pretty thin at those sort of
:30:15. > :30:18.So, of course, the previous record price was less than
:30:19. > :30:20.half what we've achieved this evening so you're going into very
:30:21. > :30:30.The buyer, Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese online fashion
:30:31. > :30:32.retailer, was delighted, he said, at winning this masterpiece, which
:30:33. > :30:38.But why might he have been willing to pay so much?
:30:39. > :30:40.It's the kind of rock and roll way he put
:30:41. > :30:44.images and text together, it's extremely influential.
:30:45. > :30:47.That mixed with a kind of expressionistic style
:30:48. > :30:50.of painting, added to the fact that he is, you know,
:30:51. > :31:02.To that you could now add the almost-mythical nature of Basquiat's
:31:03. > :31:11.and romanticised in this I pick with his friend and mentor
:31:12. > :31:20.Do you want to buy some ignorant art?
:31:21. > :31:25.Who himself became a collector of the one-time
:31:26. > :31:27.Whatever one thinks of the eye watering auction
:31:28. > :31:30.price paid for the work there is no question that Jean-Michel Basquiat
:31:31. > :31:34.His paintings reference the so-called low art
:31:35. > :31:37.There's something I find quite alarming about that picture.
:31:38. > :31:44...And the expressionism of Vincent Van Gogh
:31:45. > :31:46.and the street art scene of 1970s New York,
:31:47. > :31:48.he is a significant figure in