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Tonight at Ten: Theresa May apologises to Conservative MPs | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
for the party's performance at the general election. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The Prime Minister spent much of the day trying to agree a deal | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
with the Democratic Unionists, to keep the Conservatives in power. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
She told a meeting at Westminster that she's got the Conservatives | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
into a mess and she was the right person to get them out of it. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
The Prime Minister was superb, really statesmanlike and humble | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
in recognising the difficulties but forthright in tackling | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Earlier, Mrs May convened her new Cabinet as Ministers acknowledged | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
that the Queen's Speech, setting out the Government's | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
We're in talks with the Democratic Unionist Party to see the deal | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
that we can put together and I am very optimistic that will happen | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
but obviously until we have that we can't agree the final | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
And, the start of the formal Brexit negotiations, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
due in a week's time, might also be delayed, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
following a meeting between senior officials in Brussels today. | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
In Libya, the house where the Manchester bomber stayed, | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
just days before the attack, he'd been under surveillance | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Thousands on the streets in Russian cities protesting | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
against corruption, but many of the organisers | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
And what was the impact of social media on the election campaign? | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Coming up in Sportday on BBC News: Pakistan will face England | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
in the Champions Trophy semifinals after a thrilling three-wicket win | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The Prime Minister has told Conservative MPs that she will serve | :01:34. | :02:03. | |
them as party leader for as long as they want her. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Four days after the election - which resulted in a hung parliament | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
- Mrs May told her fellow Conservatives that she was | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
the person who'd got them into this mess and she was the one who'd get | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Earlier in the day, Downing Street confirmed that the Queen's Speech - | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
setting out the government's legislative plans - | :02:21. | :02:21. | |
It's meant to take place in a week's time. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Labour said it was further evidence that the government was in chaos, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
The band plays on, in Theresa May's backyard. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Strangely, business as usual at the back gates. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
At the front tonight, even after her personal | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
disaster of the election, the Prime Minister seemed relieved | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
After she had fessed up her mistakes to MPs. | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Theresa May said that she got us into this situation and she's | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
the lady who's going to get us out of it. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Humble in recognising the difficulties but forthright | :03:05. | :03:05. | |
in tackling the problems the country faces. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Hello, Chief Whip, how's things going? | :03:08. | :03:08. | |
Can the Prime Minister stay on, do you think? | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Does she have the confidence of her party? | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
But Theresa May knows power has shifted from her | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Do you have confidence in Theresa May's leadership... | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister? | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Arriving for the first meeting, they weren't all quite ready to give | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Do you have confidence in the Prime Minister, though? | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Having lost the Tories' majority, Theresa May needs to convince | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
her Cabinet colleagues she is still right for the job. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
They look like they need to convince themselves. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
We have had some very productive discussions with the DUPs... | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
The Tories hopes of getting anything done lie in a deal | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
It's not even clear yet if the Queen's Speech, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the official start of the Government and its business, will go ahead | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
I think that the details of the Queen's Speech, | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
the substance of the Queen's Speech is what matters. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
It's been known for some days that we are seeking an agreement | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
That will provide the stability and parliamentary votes that | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
will allow us to do the many important things we need to do. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Some loyal supporters were trying to cheer Theresa May up. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
But the fact that scores of newly elected Labour MPs are arriving | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
here and old Tory MPs departing means Theresa May is | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
going to have to change, whether she likes it or not. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
She is a weakened Prime Minister, with no majority in this place | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
and that means any of the more controversial ideas in her manifesto | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
It's probably goodbye to more grammar schools, | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
probably an end to the idea of tightening up pensioner benefits. | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
The simple truth - Theresa May can't guarantee she'll get her way. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
I think it would be great if she now gets the Government in place, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
which she's started to do yesterday and starts these negotiations | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
and then she can then herself make any decisions about the future. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
There are demands too, to shift on her approach | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
to the biggest policy of all - how we leave the EU? | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Cabinet ministers have told me there has to be a change of tone | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and there are open calls for a change of priority. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
There's a lot to discuss, a lot to dissect but we do have | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
to make sure that we invite other people in now. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
This isn't just going to be a Tory Brexit, this is going to have | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
You and others are now telling her it has to change? | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
A majority Conservative Government was putting forward a vision. | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
We are no longer a majority Conservative Government. | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
We are going to have to work with others, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
that means we are going to have to invite people in and try and take | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
The immediate sense of danger to Theresa May seems to be slowing | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
but she's vulnerable, having to answer to colleagues | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
in parliament, having failed to persuade the country. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
Gentle turmoil, while the routines and rhythms of this | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Let's go to Westminster and Laura is there. This meeting tonight of the | :06:05. | :06:17. | |
1922 committee surely the first of many tests for Theresa May? I think | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
you are absolutely right. I think this meeting tonight, the Tories | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
managed to cheer themselves up. Theresa May put in a good | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
performance, several MPs afterwards said if only she actually pulled | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
that kind of thing off during the campaign, then I think they might | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
actually have won the election. That was the view. I think pleasure at | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the fact she had risen to the occasion tonight but frustration | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
that's just not what they saw in the campaign. I think despite tonight | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
they were a bit more perky, let's be absolutely honest about this, the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Conservative Party is in a bad place right now. Just a few days ago, they | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
were expecting this to be the first day getting back to Westminster, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Theresa May should have been putting together a brand new Cabinet. She | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
should have looked like she was all guns blazing, they were expecting | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
she would have swept back to victory. Instead, they are still | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
trying to put together their deal with a small group of Northern Irish | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
MPs, the DUP. They have been working with them informally for the last | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
couple of years. So there is no expectation they won't be able to | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
reach a deal, it's likely it will happen tomorrow. But even once they | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
get a deal done the Tories and the DUP will have a tiny majority of | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
only six. Of course that puts paid to any of the big controversial | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
interesting ideas the Tory Party might have in the next couple of | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
years, that is a deal that guarantees an element of survival, | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
but genuinely not much else. I think the thing that a lot of Tories are | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
finding difficult tonight is they still don't quite understand why it | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
went so badly wrong. Remember they were the biggest party with the most | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
seats and the most votes. But they have ended up feeling like they have | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
been badly defeated. They are rallying around their leader | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
tonight, but out of necessity, rather than desire. | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
Thank you. The formal Brexit negotiations | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
were due to start next Monday but that date is now in doubt | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
following a meeting between senior EU and British officials in Brussels | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
today when they failed Earlier today, the Brexit Secretary, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
David Davis, insisted talks would still take place and he said | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the government would stick to its commitment to leave | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
the European single market, despite growing calls from some MPs | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
to be more flexible. The First Minister of Scotland, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, said it was clear there was no public backing | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
for a so-called hard Brexit. Our deputy political editor | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Jon Pienaar considers Brexit means Brexit says Theresa May | :08:41. | :08:41. | |
but what does it mean? The two-year countdown | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
continues next week. Then, UK and EU negotiators must | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
thrash out a deal if they can. They've got until the | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
end of March 2019. So what are the challenges of Brexit | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
and can ministers find an answer? European imports cross | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
British borders freely now. EU leaders say people must too, | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
if free trade's to go on. So how to keep free movement of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
goods into Britain but not people? The Government says it's sticking | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
to that mission but open to ideas. What we will be doing, | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
of course, as I have actually the last ten months, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
is listening to all the contributors and say if you've got better ideas, | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
tell me and we'll consider them. The Chancellor wants | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
to keep business supplied David Davis, the Brexit | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Secretary, does too. Trade Secretary Liam Fox is tougher | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
still, wants out of the EU, But the parliamentary pressures | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
after the election are huge. This debate's been | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
going round in circles. Since the election | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
it's picked up pace. Brexiteers want to break | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
free of all EU control. Others say compromise | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
on migration, on EU payments Whether it's on movement of people, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
how the rules can be adjusted, budget payments, things like that, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
I think there needs to be a bit of flexibility | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
because the politician's job is to make this work | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
for the nation as a whole, 17.4 million people voted | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
for the simple principle that decisions should be made | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
by democratically elected politicians here in Westminster | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
that decide our laws, That's what should be negotiated, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
starting next Monday. Trade and co-operation count | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
for more than keeping We need to get rid of the idea | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
of tick-boxing hard Brexit and obsessions with things | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
like the European Court and bringing We need an outcome that | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
works for businesses Nicola Sturgeon showed off her | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Scottish nationalist contingent, shrunk to 35 MPs but still she says | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
owed a greater hearing on Brexit. The approach that the Government | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
was taking to hard Brexit I think is dead in the water | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
and cannot stand. I am calling today for a process | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
that is opened up to include more voices, all parties and all four | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
nations of the UK and an approach that has continued membership | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
of the single market at its heart. Most of the MPs who will be sworn | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
in here this week were elected There are many ideas of how | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and what's best for Britain. If there is a plan it will only | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
emerge slowly through long, hard negotiation and no one can say | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
now what it will look like. Opinions may shift here | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
and across the country and some even believe no plan could be agreed | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
before another election. So a deal to exit the European Union | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
is not yet within reach, It will take endless wrangling | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
between now and the two-year deadline for Brexit before we find | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
out what it truly means. Our Europe editor Katya Adler | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
joins us from Brussels. What's the reaction there to the | :12:05. | :12:16. | |
developments at Westminster? Well, Brussels is trying really hard not | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
to react to what it sees as a domestic British situation but if | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
you think about it, it's surreal not to act when we are just days away | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
from what should have been the very first political face-to-face Brexit | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
negotiations between the EU and the UK. Now all of a sudden the UK | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
erupts in the sea of what Brexit should we have, hard or soft, open | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
or cliff-edge? Brussels is putting its hands over its ears trying to | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
borrow the British motto of keeping calm and carrying on. It says until | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
it receives official notification otherwise from the UK it's going to | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
carry on with Theresa May's letter of notification she sent back in | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
March saying we are leaving the EU including the single market and the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
customs union as well. Of course the EU wishes that weren't the case. One | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
high level source said to me tonight it is the secret wish of many | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Europeans that Britain would change its mind and stay in the EU. But | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
just to underline this there is zero expectation of that. In fact, the | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
EU's chief negotiator today sent two very detailed Brexit negotiating | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
documents to Downing Street, they were the start of technical talks | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
here between the two sides, but very much on the level of when shall we | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
meet, how often and so on. We do not know when the political negotiations | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
will start, to sum up, the reaction here is we are ready in Brussels, | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
when you UK are ready. Thank you. The Democratic Unionist Party | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
is not only negotiating with Theresa May - | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
as we've heard - it's also resumed talks on restoring the power-sharing | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Executive in Northern Ireland. There's been no First Minister or | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Deputy First Minister since January. But Sinn Fein says Theresa May's | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
government can no longer be seen as an honest broker because it's now | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
dependent on the DUP Our Ireland correspondent | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Chris Buckler has the latest North Antrim is a Democratic | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Unionist heartland where many voters choose the party at least partly | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
because of their religion. The DUP's opposition to same-sex | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
marriage and abortion has concerned But politicians and voters in this | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
corner of the UK can be more Do you think they need to change | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
those kind of views? No, I would agree with | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
those views, I am sorry. Everybody's entitled to their | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
opinion and if that's your opinion, then you should stand | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
for your rights. We have a right to | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
speak out, so we do. The DUP used a veto to block | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
the introduction of same-sex It was just one of a series | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
of disagreements with Sinn Fein that But the potential marriage | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
of convenience between the Conservatives and the DUP has | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
left republicans questioning if the British Government can really | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
be seen as honest brokers in the talks to try to | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
restore power-sharing. We don't believe that any | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
deal between the DUP here and the English Tories will be | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
good for the people here. And any deal which undercuts | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
in any way the process here or the Good Friday | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
and the other agreements is one Watching on as Sinn Fein spoke, | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
were members of the DUP. Their Westminster ambitions | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
could have an impact on parliament buildings in Belfast | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
where their relationship and devolved Government collapsed | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
at the start of the year. Those issues which are devolved | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
should be dealt with by the devolved administration here in Northern | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Ireland. But if others decide | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
they're not coming back into the devolved administration | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
here in Northern Ireland, then those issues will have to be | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
dealt with at Westminster. It is really for Sinn Fein to decide | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
where they want those powers to lie. The British and Irish governments | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
were supposed to be bringing Stormont's parties together | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
on these talks. Now London is having to reassure | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Dublin about their intentions. Yes, the discussions that may be | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
taking place between ourselves and the DUP in relation | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
to an agreement in Westminster, but that being entirely separate | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
from our intent and desire to see The Northern Ireland Secretary left | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
rather quickly, perhaps a sign that the Conservatives feel a little | :16:28. | :16:40. | |
uncomfortable with Tomorrow, the DUP will head | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
to Downing Street with demands, But for this deal to work the two | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
parties will need to have The DUP have still to spell out | :16:50. | :17:03. | |
exactly what they want in return for their support, but I suspect a lot | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
of it will be about finances and also influence. They'll want cash | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
for public services, for the economy and a say on things like Brexit. I | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
suspect, they'll avoid some of the contentious issues that led to the | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
collapse of power sharing here at Stormont. Nonetheless, Theresa May | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
knows she's got to be careful in what she agrees to, otherwise what's | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
good for Westminster could end up causing her problems here in | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
Northern Ireland further down-the-line. | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
Chris, thanks very much. Business leaders are warning | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
of a dramatic drop in confidence following the general election | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
result. A survey of 700 members | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
of the Institute of Directors suggests there's concern | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
that the political uncertainty could But the organisation says there's no | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
desire for another election. Our business editor, Simon Jack | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
reports on that business view. Coming up fast, Brexit negotiations | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
are due to start next Monday, but after the election result, | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
the direction of travel is more uncertain than ever and businesses | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
like Aston Martin are worried. It's almost the worst of all worlds, | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
because you now have a hung Parliament, where nothing can be | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
taken as a given. Let's understand the direction | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
of travel, let's work Let us understand where we're | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
going to and we can That will allow us then to continue | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
the investments that On Friday, in the immediate | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
aftermath of the election, business groups gathered | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
here at the Department for Business for a regular meeting | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
with the Secretary of State. The problem is many of them | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
feel that, up to now, their voice goes no further | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
than this building and are hoping that a weakened Theresa May | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
will have to listen more to Cabinet colleagues and to the voice | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
of business, particularly Up to now, I don't think business | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
has managed to get its voice across effectively enough or it | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
simply hasn't been listened to. That's particularly true | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
of smaller businesses. Now I think we've got | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
a bit of a window. That might enable there to be a bit | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
of a rethink about some of these questions about the single market, | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
the customs union, how the regulatory frameworks | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
are going to work. Well many, in fact most, businesses | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
would like to retain preferential John Elliott, who runs | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
this electrical goods manufacturer in County Durham, | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
says we must not lose sight of why My view over Brexit is we've got | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
to leave and become the same as the other people who aren't | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
in the European Union, countries like USA, Canada, | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
Australia and Japan and be treated like them and give up our free | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
access to the single market and get back control | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
of our economy and immigration. Immigration is already | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
starting to fall. There was more evidence | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
of that today. There's been a 96% fall | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
in the number of EU nationals registering to work as a nurse | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
in the UK. The Institute of Directors | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
polled its members over the weekend, and last week's election has had | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
a clear negative impact There has been a sudden drop | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
in business confidence as a direct result of what happened | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
in the election. Our members are feeling much less | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
confident about the prospects for the UK economy and they're | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
concerned about the potential impact It may be that the business voice | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
gets a wider audience in Government, but with so much political | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
uncertainty, even that prospect Security officials in Libya have | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
told the BBC that the bomb attack in Manchester last month - | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
in which 22 people were killed - For more than a month before | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
the attack, they say they had the bomber, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Salman Abedi, under The officials have also | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
complained about poor security co-operation with Britain, | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
which they say must be improved From Tripoli, our correspondent | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
Orla Guerin sent this report. An abandoned house | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
on the outskirts of Tripoli This is where the Manchester bomber | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
spent a quiet month with his family, The BBC has been told that | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
throughout his stay, Salman Abedi was under surveillance | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
here, along with his It's unclear if Britain | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
was informed. Security officials say his brother | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Hashem has admitted that he and Salman joined IS in 2015 | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and he bought parts for the bomb. The spokesman for Libya's | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
special deterrence force, which is still interrogating Hashem | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
and his father told us the attack was being planned | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
since last December. Such is the insecurity here, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
he prefers not to show his face. We have information about Salman's | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
friends and Hashem's here in Libya and what did they buy | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
from Manchester to make the bomb, and we have some information | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
about their contacts in Manchester. So far, Manchester police have | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
not set foot in Libya, where power often lies | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
in the shadows. Militias vie for influence here, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
along with three rival governments. The key question for Britain | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
is who to deal with here, who to share intelligence | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
with and that issue But even now, after the Manchester | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
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 | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
approved government in Tripoli. He told us there are | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
difficulties exchanging "My message is clear," he says, | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
"This crime has happened, we don't want it to happen again | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
in Britain or anywhere else. We want strong cooperation | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
with British security agents as soon as possible | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
to avoid similar attacks." The BBC understands British | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
officials feel it will take time to build cooperation | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
because of the instability on these shores, but officials here say | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
delays will favour IS. The Duchess of Cambridge has | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
been meeting victims of the London Bridge terror attack, | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
who are recovering at King's College Hospital | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
in south-east London. She's also met some of the doctors | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
and nurses who treated those who were hurt in the attack - | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
all of the injured who made it In Moscow, and several | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
other Russian cities, thousands of demonstrators have | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
taken to the streets to protest against corruption | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
and against the oppressive policies Scores of people were arrested | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
in Moscow and in St Petersburg, and the Russian opposition leader, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Alexei Navalny, who organised the protests, was also | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
taken into custody. Our Moscow correspondent, | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
Steve Rosenberg, has the story. One mile from the Kremlin, | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
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 | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
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 | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
they don't need permission There were anti-corruption | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
demonstrations in more As for the man who'd organised | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
this nationwide protest, opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
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, | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
but as father of the nation. And certainly not everyone | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
today was in the mood In Moscow, this patriotic | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
festival, on the same street as the protest, | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
was celebrating Russian "Protests don't make | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
life better," he says. Not one revolution has ever | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
brought anything good." Up the road, this was no | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Russian Revolution, but it was a display of defiance, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
from those people, many of them young Russians, who believe | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
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 | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
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 | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
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, | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
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 | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
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 | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
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. | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
That's alm for now. | :32:27. | :32:28. |