:00:22. > :00:26.Talks are continuing between the Conservatives
:00:27. > :00:29.and the Democratic Unionists to strike a deal to form
:00:30. > :00:36.This morning the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon backed
:00:37. > :00:41.Theresa May but said she would have to start governing with the support
:00:42. > :00:44.of her Cabinet rather than listening to advisors.
:00:45. > :00:50.But criticism of her leadership style has continued with former
:00:51. > :00:52.chancellor George Osborne calling her a 'dead
:00:53. > :00:53.woman walking' following the General election result.
:00:54. > :00:58.Here's our political correspondent Leila Nathoo.
:00:59. > :01:06.Deal or no Deal - confusion last night from Downing Street over
:01:07. > :01:10.whether the DUP had already decided to back Theresa May and give her the
:01:11. > :01:14.majority she lacks. This morning, clarification that talks were still
:01:15. > :01:17.ongoing. We had very good discussions yesterday with the
:01:18. > :01:21.Conservative Party in relation to how we could support them in forming
:01:22. > :01:26.a national Government that would bring stability to the nation, and
:01:27. > :01:31.those discussions continue. We have made good progress but that
:01:32. > :01:35.discussions continue. No detail yet on what they will demand in return.
:01:36. > :01:40.Will they are socially conservative views clash with a Tory Party
:01:41. > :01:46.wanting to modernise? There will be no formal coalition, at most, only
:01:47. > :01:50.support for key votes. This is what is traditionally called a confidence
:01:51. > :01:53.and supply arrangement, where the DUP will support us on big things
:01:54. > :02:02.like voting for the Queen 's speech, budget and finance. They support us
:02:03. > :02:06.on defence, on the big issues. It will be a fragile arrangement.
:02:07. > :02:10.Doubts over how long the Prime Minister can't last. Theresa May is
:02:11. > :02:15.a dead woman walking, it's just how long she will remain on death row. I
:02:16. > :02:19.think we will know very shortly. In other words, wicked easily get to
:02:20. > :02:28.the middle of next week and it all collapses. She is in deference --
:02:29. > :02:31.she is flawed, in a desperate situation. Our position is
:02:32. > :02:35.untenable, and I think she knows that. If Theresa May manages to hold
:02:36. > :02:39.on here, there will be huge questions of the polity she will be
:02:40. > :02:43.able to get through. Even with DUP support, the majority will be tiny
:02:44. > :02:46.and she will likely have to ditch contentious parts of her manifesto.
:02:47. > :02:50.And with Brexit negotiations starting in just over a week, her
:02:51. > :02:56.task is to get her party and Parliament behind her approach. The
:02:57. > :03:01.fact is that if the Tory Party doesn't lance the boil of Brexit,
:03:02. > :03:06.you are opening the doors for Corbyn's premiership. He wants that
:03:07. > :03:11.job now and says he is ready to govern. He will amend the Queen 's
:03:12. > :03:18.speech, putting forward what he says is an alternative agenda for the
:03:19. > :03:22.country. They will try to get legislation through the Commons when
:03:23. > :03:26.they have no agreement on key issues. It seems to be chaotic. We
:03:27. > :03:29.are quite ready and able to put forward a serious programme which
:03:30. > :03:33.obviously has massive support in this country. She thought she would
:03:34. > :03:42.win more support, now it is hard looking to others to stand beside
:03:43. > :03:43.her. -- now it is her looking to others.
:03:44. > :03:46.Our correspondent John Campbell is in Belfast for us this lunchtime.
:03:47. > :03:48.So, John, the talks continue after some confusion late last night
:03:49. > :03:51.that a deal had already been struck?
:03:52. > :03:56.It was a bit messy last night, with that initial statement from Downing
:03:57. > :04:03.Street saying that the deal was done. Then the DUP said not quite.
:04:04. > :04:08.Then Downing Street said, you are right, there is more work to do.
:04:09. > :04:11.They have moved past that, still in contact and working away. In terms
:04:12. > :04:17.of what the DUP are looking for, we have heard an awful lot about their
:04:18. > :04:22.social policy. That does not feature in these talks. Fundamentally, the
:04:23. > :04:34.DUP wallop a financial package. In 2015, when people expect --
:04:35. > :04:38.fundamentally, the DUP want a financial package. In 2015, when
:04:39. > :04:46.people expected a hung parliament, the DUP make preparations. One sauce
:04:47. > :04:56.said that the DUP could kill austerity.
:04:57. > :05:00.-- one source said that the DUP could kill austerity.
:05:01. > :05:02.A service has taken place this morning at a re-opened
:05:03. > :05:04.Southwark Cathedral to remember those who died in the London
:05:05. > :05:08.Meanwhile, police have released pictures of the fake suicide belts
:05:09. > :05:10.the three attackers were wearing when they struck
:05:11. > :05:13.Here's our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford.
:05:14. > :05:14.Southwark's medieval cathedral, caught up last Saturday
:05:15. > :05:22.This morning, for the first time since the London Bridge attack,
:05:23. > :05:25.it opened its ancient doors to worshippers again.
:05:26. > :05:30.Just over a week ago, this cathedral and this community
:05:31. > :05:35.witnessed terrible things which should not have happened.
:05:36. > :05:39.A young nurse gave her life by the entrance
:05:40. > :05:41.to Montague Chambers, trying to save a fellow
:05:42. > :05:49.Others suffered terribly, and many more would have been killed
:05:50. > :05:52.and injured had it not been for the rapid and effective
:05:53. > :06:02.Overnight, Scotland Yard released these pictures of the fake suicide
:06:03. > :06:05.belts the men had constructed in the top floor bedsit in East Ham
:06:06. > :06:12.The plan, apparently, to instil more terror
:06:13. > :06:16.during the rampage with knives through Borough Market.
:06:17. > :06:19.During the horror, police officers created a safe shelter
:06:20. > :06:28.The inspector in charge of that unit explaining what
:06:29. > :06:33.it was like to be caught up in what he called pandemonium.
:06:34. > :06:35.There were still shots ringing out, then a
:06:36. > :06:38.stream of people came out the market, running and screaming.
:06:39. > :06:40.So we literally just pushed them into the
:06:41. > :06:49.It was quite a big venue, and it seemed like the
:06:50. > :06:51.safest place to put a large volume of people at that time
:06:52. > :06:55.The police search of the crime scene at
:06:56. > :07:00.It should reopen in the next few days, though detectives
:07:01. > :07:02.investigating last Saturday's carnage are still working through
:07:03. > :07:17.The youngest son of the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi
:07:18. > :07:19.is reported to have been released from prison.
:07:20. > :07:23.A militia group controlling the town of Zintan in western Libya says it
:07:24. > :07:25.freed Saif al-Islam, who has spent the last six years
:07:26. > :07:30.in jail following the revolution which overthrew his father.
:07:31. > :07:38.Our Middle East correspondent, Orla Guerin, is in Tripoli.
:07:39. > :07:47.Saif Gaddafi - for many here, the symbol of a hated dictatorship. Now,
:07:48. > :07:54.once again, a free man. His release will reopen deep wounds. Supporters
:07:55. > :08:02.will be hoping he tries to re-enter the political fray. He was Colonel
:08:03. > :08:06.Gaddafi's heir apparent, expected to inherit the family dictatorship. He
:08:07. > :08:11.studied economics in London and in the West for years he was the public
:08:12. > :08:18.face of the regime. That was before the uprising of 2011, when he was
:08:19. > :08:23.captured by militia as he tried to flee. Later, he appeared, minus a
:08:24. > :08:29.few fingers, the result of an air strike, he said. He was sentenced to
:08:30. > :08:33.death by a court in Tripoli for brutality during the Revolution and
:08:34. > :08:39.is still wanted by the International criminal Court in the Hague. BICC
:08:40. > :08:45.wants him tried on charges of war crimes and against humanity. -- the
:08:46. > :09:03.ICC. His re-emergence will add another
:09:04. > :09:10.element of unpredictability to Libya's unstable mix. The exact
:09:11. > :09:16.whereabouts of Saif Gaddafi are unknown. One of his lawyers said
:09:17. > :09:20.that information is not being released for security reasons, but a
:09:21. > :09:33.source has told the BBC that he is in the Eastern region of two Brook
:09:34. > :09:34.-- Tibruk. If he remains there, he will be beyond the reach of the
:09:35. > :09:38.International criminal Court. A month after electing
:09:39. > :09:40.Emmanuel Macron as their youngest-ever president,
:09:41. > :09:41.the people of France The new president is
:09:42. > :09:46.hoping his centrist party, formed a little over a year ago,
:09:47. > :09:48.will win an outright majority. Half of the party's candidates
:09:49. > :09:50.are new to politics. Our correspondent Lucy
:09:51. > :10:10.Williamson is in Paris. Welcomer when you think that this
:10:11. > :10:13.party is too new to have any seats in parliament, you will understand
:10:14. > :10:18.why just a few months ago many people here thought it unlikely they
:10:19. > :10:24.would get a majority. Predictions have suggested not only a majority
:10:25. > :10:28.but they might win a landslide. If that happens, it will be a
:10:29. > :10:34.turnaround in politics here, pushing the two traditional parties onto the
:10:35. > :10:40.back burner. There are 577 seats being contested across the country.
:10:41. > :10:44.The President's party is contesting almost all of them, and one of the
:10:45. > :10:48.things that marks the party out from the others is the number of new
:10:49. > :10:52.faces it has brought in as candidates. Half of them are drawn
:10:53. > :10:56.from citizens across France who have never held political office and were
:10:57. > :11:02.chosen from tens of thousands of CVs sent in to party headquarters. There
:11:03. > :11:06.is a former bull-fighter in a former fighter pilot. I think it will be a
:11:07. > :11:07.real test of whether Emmanuel Macron's vision is the one that
:11:08. > :11:11.French voters want. Football, and 51 years
:11:12. > :11:14.of hurt have ended thanks The Under-20s have just
:11:15. > :11:19.won their World Cup Final It's the first time an England side
:11:20. > :11:25.has reached a football World Cup Final at any level
:11:26. > :11:28.since the victorious team of 1966. Our sports correspondent
:11:29. > :11:39.Andy Swiss was watching. It's only taken 51 years,
:11:40. > :11:41.but pinch yourself - yet it's England once again
:11:42. > :11:44.in a World Cup final. The so-called young Lions, the under
:11:45. > :11:47.20 is hoping to end decades They began as favourites,
:11:48. > :11:52.not that Venezuela seemed to care. Ronaldo Lucena, inches
:11:53. > :11:59.from a quite breathtaking lead. But England recovered
:12:00. > :12:01.their poise and before Second time lucky for
:12:02. > :12:04.Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Was that long wait for global
:12:05. > :12:08.glory about to end? With less than 20 minutes left,
:12:09. > :12:12.Venezuela were handed a lifeline. Penalty - but just when England
:12:13. > :12:18.needed a hero, they found one. Keeper Freddie Woodman
:12:19. > :12:20.to the rescue, to his And from there, they held
:12:21. > :12:33.on for a famous triumph. COMMENTATOR: And England have won
:12:34. > :12:35.the under-20 World Cup! England's first World Cup at any
:12:36. > :12:38.age group since 1966. After years of looking
:12:39. > :12:40.to the past, the future has You can see more on all of today's
:12:41. > :13:06.stories on the BBC News Channel. Good afternoon. It is a good
:13:07. > :13:11.afternoon for large swathes of the UK, though not for all. There is
:13:12. > :13:12.sunshine and showers,