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Tonight at Ten: Theresa May apologises to Conservative MPs

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for the party's performance at the general election.

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The Prime Minister spent much of the day trying to agree a deal

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with the Democratic Unionists, to keep the Conservatives in power.

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She told a meeting at Westminster that she's got the Conservatives

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into a mess and she was the right person to get them out of it.

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The Prime Minister was superb, really statesmanlike and humble

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in recognising the difficulties but forthright in tackling

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Earlier, Mrs May convened her new Cabinet as Ministers acknowledged

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that the Queen's Speech, setting out the Government's

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We're in talks with the Democratic Unionist Party to see the deal

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that we can put together and I am very optimistic that will happen

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but obviously until we have that we can't agree the final

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And, the start of the formal Brexit negotiations,

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due in a week's time, might also be delayed,

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following a meeting between senior officials in Brussels today.

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In Libya, the house where the Manchester bomber stayed,

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just days before the attack, he'd been under surveillance

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Thousands on the streets in Russian cities protesting

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against corruption, but many of the organisers

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And what was the impact of social media on the election campaign?

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Coming up in Sportday on BBC News: Pakistan will face England

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in the Champions Trophy semifinals after a thrilling three-wicket win

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The Prime Minister has told Conservative MPs that she will serve

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them as party leader for as long as they want her.

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Four days after the election - which resulted in a hung parliament

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- Mrs May told her fellow Conservatives that she was

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the person who'd got them into this mess and she was the one who'd get

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Earlier in the day, Downing Street confirmed that the Queen's Speech -

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setting out the government's legislative plans -

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It's meant to take place in a week's time.

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Labour said it was further evidence that the government was in chaos,

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as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

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The band plays on, in Theresa May's backyard.

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Strangely, business as usual at the back gates.

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At the front tonight, even after her personal

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disaster of the election, the Prime Minister seemed relieved

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After she had fessed up her mistakes to MPs.

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Theresa May said that she got us into this situation and she's

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the lady who's going to get us out of it.

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Humble in recognising the difficulties but forthright

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in tackling the problems the country faces.

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Hello, Chief Whip, how's things going?

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Can the Prime Minister stay on, do you think?

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Does she have the confidence of her party?

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But Theresa May knows power has shifted from her

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Do you have confidence in Theresa May's leadership...

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Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister?

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Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister

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Arriving for the first meeting, they weren't all quite ready to give

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Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister, though?

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Having lost the Tories' majority, Theresa May needs to convince

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her Cabinet colleagues she is still right for the job.

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They look like they need to convince themselves.

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We have had some very productive discussions with the DUPs...

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The Tories hopes of getting anything done lie in a deal

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It's not even clear yet if the Queen's Speech,

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the official start of the Government and its business, will go ahead

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I think that the details of the Queen's Speech,

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the substance of the Queen's Speech is what matters.

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It's been known for some days that we are seeking an agreement

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That will provide the stability and parliamentary votes that

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will allow us to do the many important things we need to do.

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Some loyal supporters were trying to cheer Theresa May up.

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But the fact that scores of newly elected Labour MPs are arriving

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here and old Tory MPs departing means Theresa May is

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going to have to change, whether she likes it or not.

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She is a weakened Prime Minister, with no majority in this place

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and that means any of the more controversial ideas in her manifesto

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It's probably goodbye to more grammar schools,

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probably an end to the idea of tightening up pensioner benefits.

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The simple truth - Theresa May can't guarantee she'll get her way.

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I think it would be great if she now gets the Government in place,

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which she's started to do yesterday and starts these negotiations

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and then she can then herself make any decisions about the future.

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There are demands too, to shift on her approach

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to the biggest policy of all - how we leave the EU?

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Cabinet ministers have told me there has to be a change of tone

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and there are open calls for a change of priority.

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There's a lot to discuss, a lot to dissect but we do have

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to make sure that we invite other people in now.

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This isn't just going to be a Tory Brexit, this is going to have

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You and others are now telling her it has to change?

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A majority Conservative Government was putting forward a vision.

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We are no longer a majority Conservative Government.

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We are going to have to work with others,

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that means we are going to have to invite people in and try and take

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The immediate sense of danger to Theresa May seems to be slowing

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but she's vulnerable, having to answer to colleagues

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in parliament, having failed to persuade the country.

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Gentle turmoil, while the routines and rhythms of this

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Let's go to Westminster and Laura is there. This meeting tonight of the

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1922 committee surely the first of many tests for Theresa May? I think

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you are absolutely right. I think this meeting tonight, the Tories

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managed to cheer themselves up. Theresa May put in a good

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performance, several MPs afterwards said if only she actually pulled

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that kind of thing off during the campaign, then I think they might

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actually have won the election. That was the view. I think pleasure at

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the fact she had risen to the occasion tonight but frustration

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that's just not what they saw in the campaign. I think despite tonight

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they were a bit more perky, let's be absolutely honest about this, the

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Conservative Party is in a bad place right now. Just a few days ago, they

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were expecting this to be the first day getting back to Westminster,

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Theresa May should have been putting together a brand new Cabinet. She

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should have looked like she was all guns blazing, they were expecting

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she would have swept back to victory. Instead, they are still

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trying to put together their deal with a small group of Northern Irish

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MPs, the DUP. They have been working with them informally for the last

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couple of years. So there is no expectation they won't be able to

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reach a deal, it's likely it will happen tomorrow. But even once they

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get a deal done the Tories and the DUP will have a tiny majority of

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only six. Of course that puts paid to any of the big controversial

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interesting ideas the Tory Party might have in the next couple of

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years, that is a deal that guarantees an element of survival,

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but genuinely not much else. I think the thing that a lot of Tories are

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finding difficult tonight is they still don't quite understand why it

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went so badly wrong. Remember they were the biggest party with the most

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seats and the most votes. But they have ended up feeling like they have

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been badly defeated. They are rallying around their leader

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tonight, but out of necessity, rather than desire.

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Thank you. The formal Brexit negotiations

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were due to start next Monday but that date is now in doubt

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following a meeting between senior EU and British officials in Brussels

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today when they failed Earlier today, the Brexit Secretary,

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David Davis, insisted talks would still take place and he said

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the government would stick to its commitment to leave

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the European single market, despite growing calls from some MPs

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to be more flexible. The First Minister of Scotland,

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Nicola Sturgeon, said it was clear there was no public backing

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for a so-called hard Brexit. Our deputy political editor

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Jon Pienaar considers Brexit means Brexit says Theresa May

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but what does it mean? The two-year countdown

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continues next week. Then, UK and EU negotiators must

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thrash out a deal if they can. They've got until the

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end of March 2019. So what are the challenges of Brexit

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and can ministers find an answer? European imports cross

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British borders freely now. EU leaders say people must too,

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if free trade's to go on. So how to keep free movement of

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goods into Britain but not people? The Government says it's sticking

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to that mission but open to ideas. What we will be doing,

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of course, as I have actually the last ten months,

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is listening to all the contributors and say if you've got better ideas,

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tell me and we'll consider them. The Chancellor wants

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to keep business supplied David Davis, the Brexit

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Secretary, does too. Trade Secretary Liam Fox is tougher

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still, wants out of the EU, But the parliamentary pressures

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after the election are huge. This debate's been

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going round in circles. Since the election

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it's picked up pace. Brexiteers want to break

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free of all EU control. Others say compromise

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on migration, on EU payments Whether it's on movement of people,

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how the rules can be adjusted, budget payments, things like that,

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I think there needs to be a bit of flexibility

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because the politician's job is to make this work

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for the nation as a whole, 17.4 million people voted

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for the simple principle that decisions should be made

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by democratically elected politicians here in Westminster

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that decide our laws, That's what should be negotiated,

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starting next Monday. Trade and co-operation count

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for more than keeping We need to get rid of the idea

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of tick-boxing hard Brexit and obsessions with things

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like the European Court and bringing We need an outcome that

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works for businesses Nicola Sturgeon showed off her

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Scottish nationalist contingent, shrunk to 35 MPs but still she says

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owed a greater hearing on Brexit. The approach that the Government

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was taking to hard Brexit I think is dead in the water

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and cannot stand. I am calling today for a process

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that is opened up to include more voices, all parties and all four

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nations of the UK and an approach that has continued membership

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of the single market at its heart. Most of the MPs who will be sworn

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in here this week were elected There are many ideas of how

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and what's best for Britain. If there is a plan it will only

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emerge slowly through long, hard negotiation and no one can say

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now what it will look like. Opinions may shift here

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and across the country and some even believe no plan could be agreed

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before another election. So a deal to exit the European Union

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is not yet within reach, It will take endless wrangling

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between now and the two-year deadline for Brexit before we find

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out what it truly means. Our Europe editor Katya Adler

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joins us from Brussels. What's the reaction there to the

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developments at Westminster? Well, Brussels is trying really hard not

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to react to what it sees as a domestic British situation but if

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you think about it, it's surreal not to act when we are just days away

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from what should have been the very first political face-to-face Brexit

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negotiations between the EU and the UK. Now all of a sudden the UK

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erupts in the sea of what Brexit should we have, hard or soft, open

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or cliff-edge? Brussels is putting its hands over its ears trying to

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borrow the British motto of keeping calm and carrying on. It says until

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it receives official notification otherwise from the UK it's going to

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carry on with Theresa May's letter of notification she sent back in

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March saying we are leaving the EU including the single market and the

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customs union as well. Of course the EU wishes that weren't the case. One

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high level source said to me tonight it is the secret wish of many

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Europeans that Britain would change its mind and stay in the EU. But

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just to underline this there is zero expectation of that. In fact, the

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EU's chief negotiator today sent two very detailed Brexit negotiating

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documents to Downing Street, they were the start of technical talks

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here between the two sides, but very much on the level of when shall we

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meet, how often and so on. We do not know when the political negotiations

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will start, to sum up, the reaction here is we are ready in Brussels,

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when you UK are ready. Thank you. The Democratic Unionist Party

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is not only negotiating with Theresa May -

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as we've heard - it's also resumed talks on restoring the power-sharing

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Executive in Northern Ireland. There's been no First Minister or

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Deputy First Minister since January. But Sinn Fein says Theresa May's

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government can no longer be seen as an honest broker because it's now

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dependent on the DUP Our Ireland correspondent

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Chris Buckler has the latest North Antrim is a Democratic

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Unionist heartland where many voters choose the party at least partly

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because of their religion. The DUP's opposition to same-sex

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marriage and abortion has concerned But politicians and voters in this

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corner of the UK can be more Do you think they need to change

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those kind of views? No, I would agree with

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those views, I am sorry. Everybody's entitled to their

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opinion and if that's your opinion, then you should stand

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for your rights. We have a right to

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speak out, so we do. The DUP used a veto to block

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the introduction of same-sex It was just one of a series

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of disagreements with Sinn Fein that But the potential marriage

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of convenience between the Conservatives and the DUP has

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left republicans questioning if the British Government can really

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be seen as honest brokers in the talks to try to

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restore power-sharing. We don't believe that any

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deal between the DUP here and the English Tories will be

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good for the people here. And any deal which undercuts

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in any way the process here or the Good Friday

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and the other agreements is one Watching on as Sinn Fein spoke,

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were members of the DUP. Their Westminster ambitions

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could have an impact on parliament buildings in Belfast

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where their relationship and devolved Government collapsed

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at the start of the year. Those issues which are devolved

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should be dealt with by the devolved administration here in Northern

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Ireland. But if others decide

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they're not coming back into the devolved administration

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here in Northern Ireland, then those issues will have to be

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dealt with at Westminster. It is really for Sinn Fein to decide

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where they want those powers to lie. The British and Irish governments

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were supposed to be bringing Stormont's parties together

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on these talks. Now London is having to reassure

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Dublin about their intentions. Yes, the discussions that may be

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taking place between ourselves and the DUP in relation

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to an agreement in Westminster, but that being entirely separate

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from our intent and desire to see The Northern Ireland Secretary left

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rather quickly, perhaps a sign that the Conservatives feel a little

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uncomfortable with Tomorrow, the DUP will head

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to Downing Street with demands, But for this deal to work the two

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parties will need to have The DUP have still to spell out

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exactly what they want in return for their support, but I suspect a lot

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of it will be about finances and also influence. They'll want cash

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for public services, for the economy and a say on things like Brexit. I

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suspect, they'll avoid some of the contentious issues that led to the

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collapse of power sharing here at Stormont. Nonetheless, Theresa May

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knows she's got to be careful in what she agrees to, otherwise what's

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good for Westminster could end up causing her problems here in

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Northern Ireland further down-the-line.

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Chris, thanks very much. Business leaders are warning

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of a dramatic drop in confidence following the general election

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result. A survey of 700 members

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of the Institute of Directors suggests there's concern

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that the political uncertainty could But the organisation says there's no

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desire for another election. Our business editor, Simon Jack

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reports on that business view. Coming up fast, Brexit negotiations

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are due to start next Monday, but after the election result,

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the direction of travel is more uncertain than ever and businesses

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like Aston Martin are worried. It's almost the worst of all worlds,

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because you now have a hung Parliament, where nothing can be

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taken as a given. Let's understand the direction

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of travel, let's work Let us understand where we're

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going to and we can That will allow us then to continue

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the investments that On Friday, in the immediate

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aftermath of the election, business groups gathered

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here at the Department for Business for a regular meeting

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with the Secretary of State. The problem is many of them

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feel that, up to now, their voice goes no further

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than this building and are hoping that a weakened Theresa May

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will have to listen more to Cabinet colleagues and to the voice

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of business, particularly Up to now, I don't think business

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has managed to get its voice across effectively enough or it

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simply hasn't been listened to. That's particularly true

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of smaller businesses. Now I think we've got

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a bit of a window. That might enable there to be a bit

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of a rethink about some of these questions about the single market,

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the customs union, how the regulatory frameworks

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are going to work. Well many, in fact most, businesses

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would like to retain preferential John Elliott, who runs

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this electrical goods manufacturer in County Durham,

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says we must not lose sight of why My view over Brexit is we've got

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to leave and become the same as the other people who aren't

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in the European Union, countries like USA, Canada,

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Australia and Japan and be treated like them and give up our free

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access to the single market and get back control

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of our economy and immigration. Immigration is already

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starting to fall. There was more evidence

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of that today. There's been a 96% fall

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in the number of EU nationals registering to work as a nurse

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in the UK. The Institute of Directors

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polled its members over the weekend, and last week's election has had

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a clear negative impact There has been a sudden drop

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in business confidence as a direct result of what happened

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in the election. Our members are feeling much less

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confident about the prospects for the UK economy and they're

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concerned about the potential impact It may be that the business voice

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gets a wider audience in Government, but with so much political

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uncertainty, even that prospect Security officials in Libya have

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told the BBC that the bomb attack in Manchester last month -

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in which 22 people were killed - For more than a month before

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the attack, they say they had the bomber,

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Salman Abedi, under The officials have also

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complained about poor security co-operation with Britain,

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which they say must be improved From Tripoli, our correspondent

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Orla Guerin sent this report. An abandoned house

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on the outskirts of Tripoli This is where the Manchester bomber

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spent a quiet month with his family, The BBC has been told that

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throughout his stay, Salman Abedi was under surveillance

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here, along with his It's unclear if Britain

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was informed. Security officials say his brother

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Hashem has admitted that he and Salman joined IS in 2015

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and he bought parts for the bomb. The spokesman for Libya's

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special deterrence force, which is still interrogating Hashem

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and his father told us the attack was being planned

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since last December. Such is the insecurity here,

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he prefers not to show his face. We have information about Salman's

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friends and Hashem's here in Libya and what did they buy

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from Manchester to make the bomb, and we have some information

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about their contacts in Manchester. So far, Manchester police have

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not set foot in Libya, where power often lies

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in the shadows. Militias vie for influence here,

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along with three rival governments. The key question for Britain

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is who to deal with here, who to share intelligence

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with and that issue But even now, after the Manchester

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bombing, Libyan officials have told us they have far better security

:22:39.:22:44.

cooperation with the CIA This general works for the UN

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approved government in Tripoli. He told us there are

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difficulties exchanging "My message is clear," he says,

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"This crime has happened, we don't want it to happen again

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in Britain or anywhere else. We want strong cooperation

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with British security agents as soon as possible

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to avoid similar attacks." The BBC understands British

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officials feel it will take time to build cooperation

:23:20.:23:22.

because of the instability on these shores, but officials here say

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delays will favour IS. The Duchess of Cambridge has

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been meeting victims of the London Bridge terror attack,

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who are recovering at King's College Hospital

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in south-east London. She's also met some of the doctors

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and nurses who treated those who were hurt in the attack -

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all of the injured who made it In Moscow, and several

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other Russian cities, thousands of demonstrators have

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taken to the streets to protest against corruption

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and against the oppressive policies Scores of people were arrested

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in Moscow and in St Petersburg, and the Russian opposition leader,

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Alexei Navalny, who organised the protests, was also

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taken into custody. Our Moscow correspondent,

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Steve Rosenberg, has the story. One mile from the Kremlin,

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a public holiday turned Russia day is supposed to be

:24:19.:24:20.

a national celebration, but riot police were sent

:24:21.:24:28.

in to clear anti-government protesters from

:24:29.:24:31.

Moscow's main street. Thousands had come

:24:32.:24:36.

to accuse the Russian "Putin is a thief," they shouted

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and "One, two, three, Families, accidentally caught up

:24:39.:24:44.

in the violence, fled. Police detained

:24:45.:24:53.

hundreds of protesters. The police have been telling

:24:54.:24:57.

the crowd that people don't have the right to protest here,

:24:58.:25:00.

that they don't have permission. But the protesters have been saying

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they don't need permission There were anti-corruption

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demonstrations in more As for the man who'd organised

:25:06.:25:13.

this nationwide protest, opposition leader, Alexei Navalny,

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he was detained as he left home. Vladimir Putin said nothing

:25:20.:25:24.

today about the protests. Instead he played tour

:25:25.:25:28.

guide in the Kremlin This is how President Putin

:25:29.:25:31.

would rather be seen, not as a corrupt leader,

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but as father of the nation. And certainly not everyone

:25:37.:25:41.

today was in the mood In Moscow, this patriotic

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festival, on the same street as the protest,

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was celebrating Russian "Protests don't make

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life better," he says. Not one revolution has ever

:25:53.:25:58.

brought anything good." Up the road, this was no

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Russian Revolution, but it was a display of defiance,

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from those people, many of them young Russians, who believe

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their country needs change. In France, President Macron's

:26:10.:26:14.

new centrist party - En Marche - looks set to win a landslide victory

:26:15.:26:21.

in this weekend's final The party is on course to win more

:26:22.:26:24.

than two-thirds of the seats Our Paris correspondent,

:26:25.:26:29.

Lucy Williamson, reports on the diversity of the party's

:26:30.:26:34.

candidates, many of whom represent Politics, says Cedric Villani,

:26:35.:26:36.

is a matter of probability with a bit of game theory thrown in,

:26:37.:26:44.

which goes some way to explaining why a mathematician,

:26:45.:26:47.

specialising in non-linear landau damping, is topping

:26:48.:26:52.

a race for parliament. It's still his boss' poster

:26:53.:26:56.

that gets the kisses. Unlike many of the new faces running

:26:57.:26:59.

for the president's party, Cedric is already well known

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as a maths genius with a string I've always been an idealistic

:27:03.:27:05.

in my professional lives, as a researcher, as a teacher,

:27:06.:27:14.

as a director. I will continue as a member

:27:15.:27:20.

of Parliament, trying not to be Among the hundreds of

:27:21.:27:23.

new party candidates, there's a former bull fighter,

:27:24.:27:28.

a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, a fighter pilot,

:27:29.:27:31.

entrepreneurs and a judge. Mr Macron's bid to bridge

:27:32.:27:36.

the old political left and right has been popular enough to win him

:27:37.:27:39.

the presidency and probably But such a broad church

:27:40.:27:42.

could be vulnerable. There will be quite a few

:27:43.:27:47.

older political figures and they are like wolves

:27:48.:27:52.

in the forest encircling the village and waiting

:27:53.:27:57.

to hear if they can enter, and see if they can already

:27:58.:28:02.

pick up a few lambs, which are getting away

:28:03.:28:07.

from the herd. If predictions for next Sunday

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are correct, Emmanuel Macron will have remade French politics

:28:11.:28:13.

in the space of six weeks. But behind all the talk

:28:14.:28:17.

of a new era, is the fact that for three quarters of voters here,

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he was not the first choice for president, and in the first

:28:22.:28:25.

round of the Parliamentary polls, Emmanuel Macron has built his

:28:26.:28:28.

movement on a renewal of democracy, grass-roots, representative,

:28:29.:28:35.

open to all. But a sweeping majority

:28:36.:28:39.

in parliament could leave little room for opposition,

:28:40.:28:42.

and without a real debate among politicians, he could end up facing

:28:43.:28:45.

grass-roots democracy in a more More on the aftermath

:28:46.:28:49.

of the election. Throughout this week, we'll be

:28:50.:28:58.

looking at some of the factors Labour's online political

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advertising was reported to be notably successful in the final days

:29:02.:29:05.

of the campaign, so our media editor, Amol Rajan, has taken a look

:29:06.:29:09.

at the role played by social media in shaping the outcome

:29:10.:29:12.

of the 2017 election. # The nurses going hungry

:29:13.:29:23.

# Schools in decline... # Energetic, cool and full of aerning,

:29:24.:29:28.

like many of the endorsements Jeremy Corbyn received,

:29:29.:29:31.

this song, downloaded nearly three million times on YouTube,

:29:32.:29:35.

was designed to be Many of the ads on Facebook

:29:36.:29:37.

from Labour's official campaign had a positive,

:29:38.:29:42.

colourful message I've been involved in

:29:43.:29:44.

opposing anti-terror... By contrast many Tory ads

:29:45.:29:51.

like this one were grey, doom laden and focussed mainly

:29:52.:29:54.

on one thing - Corbyn's character. A project set up to analyse

:29:55.:29:59.

the impact of political messaging on Facebook found in the final days

:30:00.:30:03.

of the campaign, Labour's message targeted 464 constituencies compared

:30:04.:30:08.

to just 205 for the Tories. If you look at Facebook feed,

:30:09.:30:11.

probably nine out of ten It's actually not that common

:30:12.:30:13.

for people to see ads If you have a feed that's

:30:14.:30:17.

full of shared content from the Labour Party one blue ad

:30:18.:30:22.

amongst that sea of red At the offices of Momentum,

:30:23.:30:25.

the grass-roots movement set up to support Corbyn's mission

:30:26.:30:34.

to reinvent Labour, they've used social media to bypass journalists

:30:35.:30:37.

and spread articles from sympathetic websites like the Canary. Over the

:30:38.:30:43.

course of the general election campaign, one in three Facebook

:30:44.:30:47.

users in the UK saw one of Momentum's videos. We could create

:30:48.:30:50.

content which was accessible, appealing and spoke to issues which

:30:51.:30:54.

affected people in society that. Was a big part of the appeal. We had

:30:55.:30:58.

volunteer film makers and editors throughout the UK who gave their

:30:59.:31:02.

time to make a lot of this content. In years gone by, newspapers set the

:31:03.:31:06.

political agenda. But their influence is in decline. This

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digital army uses social media and mobile technology to generate huge

:31:12.:31:16.

audiences for a message that they, rather than journalists, get to

:31:17.:31:21.

control. To many activists, tabloids and broadcasters like the BBC are

:31:22.:31:26.

the enemy. Last week, a video of a pro-Corbyn supporter, burning copies

:31:27.:31:30.

of Britain's tabloids went viral. As one former editor of the Sun notes,

:31:31.:31:34.

the very idea of a newspaper seems antiquated to many young voters.

:31:35.:31:39.

Generations now expect their information to be delivered

:31:40.:31:44.

instantly and the idea of perhaps printing millions of print products

:31:45.:31:48.

and loading them onto a huge articulated lorry, taking them to

:31:49.:31:53.

all corners of the country, by which time their 12 hours -- they're 12

:31:54.:31:57.

hours ought of date, is a massive challenge. We all have ?500 personal

:31:58.:32:02.

computers in our pockets now, where we get instant access to

:32:03.:32:03.

information. A quarter of a century after the Sun

:32:04.:32:08.

claimed to have swung an election, social media has destroyed Fleet

:32:09.:32:11.

Street's monopoly on political opinion. As a younger generation

:32:12.:32:14.

mobilises online, newspapers may find they no longer get their way.

:32:15.:32:20.

A look at the potential impact of social media on the campaign.

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That's alm for now.

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