:00:07. > :00:12.A day of political reckoning across Europe, and the last UK-wide test of
:00:13. > :00:15.opinion before the next general election.
:00:16. > :00:19.Confidence from UKIP as the final votes are counted in the European
:00:20. > :00:23.elections. Quietly confident, but I don't count
:00:24. > :00:26.my chickens until they are hatched. In France, exit polls suggest
:00:27. > :00:33.victory for the far right National Front party.
:00:34. > :00:38.Tonight, a political earthquake. It looks as if the far right National
:00:39. > :00:43.Front will top the polls in the European elections. Also, the Pope
:00:44. > :00:46.makes a surprise visit to the controversial barrier separating
:00:47. > :00:50.Bethlehem from Jerusalem as he makes a plea for peace.
:00:51. > :00:51.And dramatic scenes at the Monaco Grand Prix as a driver crashes out
:00:52. > :01:15.of the famous race. Good evening. The leaders of the
:01:16. > :01:18.Britain's political parties are tonight awaiting anxiously the
:01:19. > :01:22.results of elections to the European Parliament, the first nationwide
:01:23. > :01:27.test of electoral opinion for four years. All sides are expecting UKIP
:01:28. > :01:29.to do well, following their strong performance in Thursday's local
:01:30. > :01:34.elections. A total of 73 MEPs will be elected
:01:35. > :01:36.from nine regions in England, as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern
:01:37. > :01:41.Ireland. Across Europe as a whole, 751 MEPs
:01:42. > :01:44.will be elected to the European Parliament.
:01:45. > :01:49.We'll get the latest from our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt in a moment,
:01:50. > :01:54.but first here is our Deputy Political Editor, James Landale.
:01:55. > :01:57.And they're off. Across the country, thousands of votes have been counted
:01:58. > :01:59.in the last national ballot of public opinion before the general
:02:00. > :02:04.election. And all eyes are on this man,
:02:05. > :02:06.arriving in Southampton tonight for once without fanfare or drink, to
:02:07. > :02:11.hear his result. REPORTER: Confident, Nigel? Quietly
:02:12. > :02:14.confident, but I don't count my chickens until they are hatched. All
:02:15. > :02:18.sides expect him and UKIP to do well. Even before all the results
:02:19. > :02:22.are in, recriminations in other parties have begun.
:02:23. > :02:26.After setbacks in the local elections that could be repeated
:02:27. > :02:30.tonight, some Lib Dems have called for their leader Nick Clegg to stand
:02:31. > :02:33.down. Not all his MPs are rushing to his defence.
:02:34. > :02:38.Because I have an open mind on the issue, as in I'm not of the view he
:02:39. > :02:42.must stay, I'm willing to go on this programme and say I haven't made my
:02:43. > :02:47.mind up. One former leader made up his mind about Mr Clegg. He's a man
:02:48. > :02:51.of courage, of integrity, of decency, he's one of the I think,
:02:52. > :02:56.the best Prime Minister Britain hasn't got, that hasn't got through
:02:57. > :02:59.to the electorate yet. After their losses to UKIP, the
:03:00. > :03:05.Tories are already promising to get tougher on immigration, cutting the
:03:06. > :03:08.time EU migrants can claim benefits. Today, the Home Secretary admitted
:03:09. > :03:13.it was getting hard tore meet what she now calls her target of cutting
:03:14. > :03:17.net migration. Pf We still have the aim of thousands.
:03:18. > :03:20.It has become more difficult, you are right. Net migration is too
:03:21. > :03:26.high. That's why I want to continue working to bring it down.
:03:27. > :03:30.Ed Miliband's party made gains at the local elections, but if Labour
:03:31. > :03:32.does badly tonight, he could face fresh questions about his
:03:33. > :03:36.leadership, after a campaign where he got on the wrong side of some
:03:37. > :03:41.interviews and yes, a bacon sandwich. Be- deputy begged to
:03:42. > :03:45.differ. The idea of easy predictions on the basis of the past is for the
:03:46. > :03:49.birds. What we do know is the facts. The facts are, we are moving
:03:50. > :03:52.forward, Ed Miliband is in touch with people's concerns and we are
:03:53. > :03:56.putting forward the policies. So these votes being counted tonight
:03:57. > :04:02.count. They could change the face of
:04:03. > :04:06.British politics. James Landale is in the studio with
:04:07. > :04:10.me now. What is the latest, results coming through? We have some results
:04:11. > :04:15.from some regions in England. In the North East, Labour came top with
:04:16. > :04:19.36%, but crucially, UKIP second on 29%, a huge advance for them,
:04:20. > :04:23.gaining their first MEPs there. Also, UKIP doing incredibly well in
:04:24. > :04:28.the east of England. They have just won three MPs, Conservatives there,
:04:29. > :04:32.and one for Labour. A strong showing already from UKIP tonight. What is
:04:33. > :04:37.at stake? Oh, a huge amount. If you think about it, Nigel Farage has
:04:38. > :04:41.promised an earthquake in British politics and tonight we'll find out
:04:42. > :04:44.if the earth moved for him. If UKIP comes first, it would be the first
:04:45. > :04:50.time any party, other than the Conservatives or Labour, have won a
:04:51. > :04:54.national election since 1910. It's that extraordinary. If Labour come
:04:55. > :04:58.second, as many predict, what does that say about their chances of
:04:59. > :05:03.potentially forming a Government next year? If the Conservatives come
:05:04. > :05:06.third, as many predict, what does that say about them? They haven't
:05:07. > :05:11.lost a European election for two decades, what impression and
:05:12. > :05:14.pressure will that mean for David Cameron and of course the Liberal
:05:15. > :05:17.Democrats, what happens if one of the most pro-European parties in
:05:18. > :05:20.British politics ends up potentially with no representation, as is
:05:21. > :05:25.possible, in the Strasbourg Parliament? If they even potentially
:05:26. > :05:26.come behind the green. The consequences for this are absolutely
:05:27. > :05:33.huge. Thank you.
:05:34. > :05:36.The polls have now closed in the 28 countries voting in the European
:05:37. > :05:41.elections. The exit polls are showing far right and Euro-sceptic
:05:42. > :05:44.parties set to make sweeping gains. In France, those polls suggest the
:05:45. > :05:49.anti-immigration, National Front party, is expected to win a majority
:05:50. > :05:52.for the first time in. Greece, the far left, who oppose austerity
:05:53. > :05:56.measures, are predicted to have taken the lead.
:05:57. > :06:01.Our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, is in Paris for us tonight.
:06:02. > :06:06.It tellious something when the Prime Minister of France comes out and
:06:07. > :06:12.says there has been a political earthquake. That was his reaction to
:06:13. > :06:15.the predicted victory of the far right National Front party in the
:06:16. > :06:19.European elections, coming on a night of significant gains for
:06:20. > :06:27.Euro-sceptic and antiestablishment parties across Europe. My report
:06:28. > :06:33.contains some flash photography. It wasn't so long ago that the
:06:34. > :06:37.National Front, the far right party of Marine Le Pen was regarded as
:06:38. > :06:40.longing to the fringe of French politics. Tonight, the leader of the
:06:41. > :06:44.anti-immigration Euro-sceptic party pushed her way to the podium,
:06:45. > :06:48.predicted to have won a national election.
:06:49. > :06:54.She will have over 20 seats in the European Parliament and promises to
:06:55. > :06:58.fight Brussels from the inside. The French people, he said, don't
:06:59. > :07:01.want to be led from the outside, they don't want to submit
:07:02. > :07:06.themselveses to laws they have not voted for, oh to obey EU
:07:07. > :07:11.commissioners that haven't been elected. I asked her whether she had
:07:12. > :07:15.a message for Nigel Farage of UKIP. TRANSLATION: In the coming week,
:07:16. > :07:21.we'll be in contact with Nigel Farage. Even if we don't form one
:07:22. > :07:25.group, we'll be able to create a United Front against a European
:07:26. > :07:30.Union that bullies our people. In Germany, Chancellor Merkel's
:07:31. > :07:35.party topped the poll. A new Euro-sceptic party did get over 6%
:07:36. > :07:39.of the vote, but Germany remains overwhelmingly pro-the EU.
:07:40. > :07:47.There was a potential upset in Greece. The epicentre of the
:07:48. > :07:50.eurozone crisis's, the leader of the radical left party that opposes
:07:51. > :07:55.austerity in the bail outs seems set to win. It's too early to know how
:07:56. > :07:59.many seats the antiestablishment Euro-sceptic parties will win. In
:08:00. > :08:02.places they did less well than expected. But they could double
:08:03. > :08:07.their seats in the Parliament. Turnout is one of the major issues
:08:08. > :08:13.of this campaign. Five years ago, it had fallen to 43%, this time
:08:14. > :08:16.significant funds have been spent trying to engage European citizens
:08:17. > :08:22.with the elections to the European Parliament.
:08:23. > :08:27.The screens exst estimate a turnout of 43. 1%, a fraction up on four
:08:28. > :08:31.years ago, and if confirmed, that will be celebrated in Brussels. It
:08:32. > :08:34.would mean for the first time in over 30 years, turnout for the
:08:35. > :08:42.European elections has actually increased.
:08:43. > :08:44.Even though the Euro-sceptic and antiestablishment parties have done
:08:45. > :08:48.well, they are unlikely to get more than a quart irof the seats in the
:08:49. > :08:51.European Parliament. Power will very much remain with the traditional
:08:52. > :08:55.parties which, of course, are usually in favour of closer
:08:56. > :08:59.integration and in any event, some of these Euro-sceptic parties will
:09:00. > :09:04.probably struggle to get on with each other. What this result is
:09:05. > :09:10.partly, is a protest vote against a low growth and high unemployment
:09:11. > :09:14.economy. It also does reflect some disillusionment with the workings of
:09:15. > :09:19.Brussels. Here is the big question - how will Europe's leaders now react
:09:20. > :09:25.to what, for many of them, will be a very disturbing result.
:09:26. > :09:29.Thank you very much. There's a special European election
:09:30. > :09:35.results programme presented by David Dimbleby which you can catch from 11
:09:36. > :09:42.o'clock tonight on BBC One. Other news now and Pope Francis, who
:09:43. > :09:48.is on a tour of the Holy Land, has invited the Palestinian President
:09:49. > :09:53.and Israeli President, to visit the Vatican to pray for peace.
:09:54. > :09:55.He said the Israeli Palestinian conflict was increasingly
:09:56. > :10:01.unacceptable. This report from our Middle East
:10:02. > :10:04.editor, Jeremy Bowen, contains flash photography.
:10:05. > :10:08.Pope Francis touched his forehead on the wall that separates Bethlehem
:10:09. > :10:12.from Jerusalem to show his concern of the failure to bring peace to the
:10:13. > :10:17.Holy Land. This is a hope who understands the power of symbols.
:10:18. > :10:21.Israel says the separation barrier is to keep its people safe,
:10:22. > :10:29.Palestinians say Israel is grabbing land they want for estate.
:10:30. > :10:33.Later, I asked the Pope why he stopped. He said the answer will
:10:34. > :10:37.have to wait until the trip back to Rome.
:10:38. > :10:45.At an open-air mass in Manger Square, opposite the church marking
:10:46. > :10:49.the birthplace of Jesus, many Palestinians believed Pope Francis
:10:50. > :10:53.has been signalling support for their point of view.
:10:54. > :10:59.The Pope said this tour was going to be about religion, but it's clear he
:11:00. > :11:03.wasn't just talking about ritual. Francis has made a big intervention
:11:04. > :11:08.into politics and diplomacy. Backed, he believes, by his moral and
:11:09. > :11:12.spiritual authority. He had an embrace for the
:11:13. > :11:17.Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and an invitation to meet
:11:18. > :11:22.him, and Israel's President, at his home in Rome. Secular leaders have
:11:23. > :11:26.run out of ideas and will about Middle East peace.
:11:27. > :11:30.But the leader of 1.2 billion Catholics seems to have plenty of
:11:31. > :11:34.both. The Palestinians are seeing
:11:35. > :11:39.everything the Pope has said and dene here in the context of one very
:11:40. > :11:43.important part for them of their strategy, and that's to try to get
:11:44. > :11:47.their arguments about statehood, the way they want it, into the
:11:48. > :11:51.mainstream of the international debate as part of the accepted
:11:52. > :11:55.wisdom. The fact especially that the Pope
:11:56. > :12:01.stopped at the wall to pray makes this for the Palestinians a much
:12:02. > :12:05.better than expected visit. A Jordanian military helicopter took
:12:06. > :12:10.Pope Francis to Tel Aviv for the Israeli leg of his tour.
:12:11. > :12:16.He was greeted by President Shimon Peres, who like his counterpart, has
:12:17. > :12:20.accepted the Pope's invitation. At the airport, Pope Francis renewed
:12:21. > :12:27.his predecessor's call for Israel to live in peace and security alongside
:12:28. > :12:32.a sovereign, independent Palestine. Jerusalem was the next stop, where
:12:33. > :12:37.Christians even rate the domed holy church as the site where Jesus was
:12:38. > :12:42.crucified. Appropriate Francis was there to
:12:43. > :12:45.pray with Orthodox Christians. His Middle East peace initiative is a
:12:46. > :12:52.gamble, but he looks to be a man who believes his office has power that
:12:53. > :12:55.should be used. A manhunt is still under way
:12:56. > :13:00.following yesterday's attack at a Jewish museum in Brussels. A fourth
:13:01. > :13:04.person who was critically injured is reported to have died. CCTV footage
:13:05. > :13:08.has been released showing the gunman entering the building before pulling
:13:09. > :13:13.out an automatic rifle and opening fire, security's been stepped up at
:13:14. > :13:17.Jewish related sites across Belgium. Thousands of students have gathered
:13:18. > :13:20.for a candle-lit vigil at the University of California, to
:13:21. > :13:24.remember the six people killed by the British-born student, Elliot
:13:25. > :13:31.Rodger. The 22-year-old stabbed three house mates and shot three
:13:32. > :13:36.other people in Santa Barbara. Elliot Rodger's father, who is a
:13:37. > :13:43.film maker, was later found dead in his car. This is the moment Elliot
:13:44. > :13:46.Rodger Elliot Rodger opened fire. Watch again the fridge door on the
:13:47. > :13:53.left as the bullet strikes over the girl's head. This is where one of
:13:54. > :13:57.his six victims was killed. I don't know what you don't see in me. I'm
:13:58. > :14:01.the perfect guy. Yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious
:14:02. > :14:05.men. In this chilling video posted online hours before the attack, he
:14:06. > :14:09.said what he was going to do and why.
:14:10. > :14:13.His rejection by women was the apparent motive.
:14:14. > :14:18.It all has to come to this. Tomorrow, is the day of retribution.
:14:19. > :14:22.The first three people to die were stabbed to death at his apartment
:14:23. > :14:27.before the shooting spree began. He had clashed with his flat mates in
:14:28. > :14:31.the past. Elliot Rodger's father is a British
:14:32. > :14:36.film maker, shown with the killer's half brother. The family had warned
:14:37. > :14:40.police of his mental Harrogate hatefulness. They believed he wasn't
:14:41. > :14:46.a threat, but he was planning his day of retribution meticulously. At
:14:47. > :14:53.the wheel of his crashed BMW, he carried out the final act, six
:14:54. > :14:59.people were left dead. He targeted female students and people saw him
:15:00. > :15:05.spray the street with bullets. I saw him shooting. He hit a kid on a
:15:06. > :15:09.bike, a guy flew across the bike and then drove further down to the
:15:10. > :15:13.corner of the street. He started shooting. People left candles to
:15:14. > :15:17.remember those killed. The shooting has traumatised this beach-side
:15:18. > :15:22.college town and again, raised questions over America's gun laws.
:15:23. > :15:28.Aren't we tired of this? Isn't this just... I mean, how can this go on?
:15:29. > :15:33.What are we thinking? It's just unbelievable to me that we
:15:34. > :15:37.have to do this all over again. It's a question people here in Santa
:15:38. > :15:43.Barbara are asking, as they reflect on another mass killing in America
:15:44. > :15:47.where angry young men have easy access to guns.
:15:48. > :15:51.President Obama has made a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan. He
:15:52. > :15:55.met military leaders at Bagram airfield outside Kabul and announced
:15:56. > :16:01.he was close to a decision about the number of American troops who'll
:16:02. > :16:07.remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014. Exit polls suggest the pro-western
:16:08. > :16:11.billionaire, Pedro Porochenko has won the Ukraine election. He said
:16:12. > :16:16.he'll travel to the east of the country to end the war and chaos but
:16:17. > :16:21.he wouldn't negotiate with pro-Russian separatists until they
:16:22. > :16:24.put down their weapons. This report contains flash
:16:25. > :16:30.photography. Pet row Poroc He nko on his way to
:16:31. > :16:36.what appears to have been a decisive win in the first round.
:16:37. > :16:40.REPORTER: An important day? Absolutely. One of the most
:16:41. > :16:44.important in Ukrainian history. Ukraine's unlikely saviour is a
:16:45. > :16:48.billionaire who made his money in chocolate. He now has to rescue a
:16:49. > :16:54.nation on the verge of bankruptcy and facing armed pro-Russian
:16:55. > :16:58.separatists in the east. Most Ukrainians are hoping this is
:16:59. > :17:03.the day that a new leader will take the helm of a country that for too
:17:04. > :17:07.much of the last six months has seemed Rudderless.
:17:08. > :17:13.In Kiev, people queued for hours in the heat to vote in large numbers.
:17:14. > :17:19.Everybody understanding that this could be a crucial moment.
:17:20. > :17:25.It's really important. This election, the most important in the
:17:26. > :17:30.Ukrainian history I think. But in Donetsk in the east,
:17:31. > :17:35.separatists in balaclavas opposed to the election were smashing up ballot
:17:36. > :17:40.boxes. The gunmen who fired a defiant
:17:41. > :17:45.volley in the city centre there today managed to prevent most
:17:46. > :17:50.polling stations opening. Though the BBC filmed some brave
:17:51. > :17:57.people who defied the armed men and cast their votes.
:17:58. > :18:01.In Kiev's main square, we found these two sisters who we last saw in
:18:02. > :18:05.Crimea before it was annexed by Russia.
:18:06. > :18:11.They'd come all the way by train, determined to take part in the poll.
:18:12. > :18:14.Pf TRANSLATION: It's because we are
:18:15. > :18:21.citizens of Ukraine and presidential elections are important, especially
:18:22. > :18:25.these elections. In the cathedral, they were praying
:18:26. > :18:30.tonight, as the man likely to be declared President tomorrow promised
:18:31. > :18:34.a new start. Fresh elections for Parliament and an opportunity to
:18:35. > :18:41.move on from the violence of the last six months.
:18:42. > :18:47.Time for the big sports news of the day and over to Katie Gornall at the
:18:48. > :18:51.BBC Sports centre. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you.
:18:52. > :18:55.Nico Rosberg's overtaken his team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, at the
:18:56. > :18:59.top of the frown drivers Championship after winning the
:19:00. > :19:02.Monaco Grand Prix. Hamilton finished second ahead of Ricciardo of Red
:19:03. > :19:06.Bull. Nick Parrott watched the action. The Monaco Grand Prix is
:19:07. > :19:11.hugely all about gla now, but this year it became a grudge match
:19:12. > :19:15.between rivals Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. The Briton was unhappy
:19:16. > :19:19.about the controversy way his team-mate took poll position and
:19:20. > :19:21.after winning the last four races found himself in tun familiar
:19:22. > :19:25.position of playing second fit from the the start.
:19:26. > :19:30.Perez was also having a bad weekend, crashing out on the first lap, and
:19:31. > :19:36.mechanical problems ending Vettel's hundredth race for Red Bull. Sutil's
:19:37. > :19:41.crash brought out the safety care and Hadham ill tonne claiming his
:19:42. > :19:45.team miss add chance to get him ahead of Rosberg. And he suffered
:19:46. > :19:50.more problems as he tried to catch the German. Can't see out of my left
:19:51. > :19:54.eye. Lost sight of his team-mate and was fighting to keep Ricciardo at
:19:55. > :19:59.bay. Leaving Rosberg to win for the second year in a row.
:20:00. > :20:03.Rosberg coming through to win the Monaco Grand Prix!
:20:04. > :20:05.He's retaken the lead of the driver's Championship from Hamilton
:20:06. > :20:12.who seems to have lost some of his fizz.
:20:13. > :20:17.Four days after he called off his engagement to tennis player,
:20:18. > :20:22.Caroline Wozniaki, Rory McIlroy's won his first golf title of the
:20:23. > :20:27.year, coming seven shots down to win the flagship event at the Northern
:20:28. > :20:31.Irish tour at Wentworth. He finished one shot ahead of Shane Lowry.
:20:32. > :20:36.England's cricketers have suffered a defeat in the second one-day
:20:37. > :20:39.international against Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street, beaten by 157
:20:40. > :20:44.runs as Sri Lanka levelled the series 1-1.
:20:45. > :20:49.England's winter of discontent left them with lit toll be chirpy about,
:20:50. > :20:53.yet this sum you are has marked a new start with some new faces. There
:20:54. > :20:58.was too much of the old England in the field, allowing Sri Lanka to get
:20:59. > :21:02.into their stride quickly until Dilshan's Dexterry did some damage,
:21:03. > :21:09.he top scored with 88. For the tourists, they were held
:21:10. > :21:14.most by mishaps, catch after catch drop bid England and a target of
:21:15. > :21:19.2157 should have been much lower. - 257. That figure nigh-on impossible
:21:20. > :21:26.after seven overs as England had already lost four wickets and 29 for
:21:27. > :21:30.4 soon bishop 73 for 8, as England complete completely collapsed --
:21:31. > :21:32.soon became. More things to note for Peter Moorings, England all out for
:21:33. > :21:34.99. This may be a new start, but it's
:21:35. > :21:43.not a very good one. Football now, and Rotherham have
:21:44. > :21:47.been promoted for the second year in a row after beating Leyton Orient in
:21:48. > :21:52.the League One play-off final at Wembley. There was heartbreak for
:21:53. > :21:57.Hibernian who've been relegated after losing to Hamilton Academical.
:21:58. > :22:00.They came back from 2-0 down from the first leg to win on personal it
:22:01. > :22:03.is and they'll now replace Hibs in the top flight.
:22:04. > :22:06.Quite a match. That's all the sport from me.
:22:07. > :22:10.Thank you very much. And that is it. David Dimbleby has
:22:11. > :22:12.full coverage on BBC One of the European election results after the
:22:13. > :22:13.news where you