11/06/2017 BBC Weekend News

Talks are continuing between the Conservatives

and the Democratic Unionists to strike a deal to form

This morning the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon backed

Theresa May but said she would have to start governing with the support

of her Cabinet rather than listening to advisors.

But criticism of her leadership style has continued with former

chancellor George Osborne calling her a 'dead

woman walking' following the General election result.

Here's our political correspondent Leila Nathoo.

Deal or no Deal - confusion last night from Downing Street over

whether the DUP had already decided to back Theresa May and give her the

majority she lacks. This morning, clarification that talks were still

ongoing. We had very good discussions yesterday with the

Conservative Party in relation to how we could support them in forming

a national Government that would bring stability to the nation, and

those discussions continue. We have made good progress but that

discussions continue. No detail yet on what they will demand in return.

Will they are socially conservative views clash with a Tory Party

wanting to modernise? There will be no formal coalition, at most, only

support for key votes. This is what is traditionally called a confidence

and supply arrangement, where the DUP will support us on big things

like voting for the Queen 's speech, budget and finance. They support us

on defence, on the big issues. It will be a fragile arrangement.

Doubts over how long the Prime Minister can't last. Theresa May is

a dead woman walking, it's just how long she will remain on death row. I

think we will know very shortly. In other words, wicked easily get to

the middle of next week and it all collapses. She is in deference --

she is flawed, in a desperate situation. Our position is

untenable, and I think she knows that. If Theresa May manages to hold

on here, there will be huge questions of the polity she will be

able to get through. Even with DUP support, the majority will be tiny

and she will likely have to ditch contentious parts of her manifesto.

And with Brexit negotiations starting in just over a week, her

task is to get her party and Parliament behind her approach. The

fact is that if the Tory Party doesn't lance the boil of Brexit,

you are opening the doors for Corbyn's premiership. He wants that

job now and says he is ready to govern. He will amend the Queen 's

speech, putting forward what he says is an alternative agenda for the

country. They will try to get legislation through the Commons when

they have no agreement on key issues. It seems to be chaotic. We

are quite ready and able to put forward a serious programme which

obviously has massive support in this country. She thought she would

win more support, now it is hard looking to others to stand beside

her. -- now it is her looking to others.

Our correspondent John Campbell is in Belfast for us this lunchtime.

So, John, the talks continue after some confusion late last night

that a deal had already been struck?

It was a bit messy last night, with that initial statement from Downing

Street saying that the deal was done. Then the DUP said not quite.

Then Downing Street said, you are right, there is more work to do.

They have moved past that, still in contact and working away. In terms

of what the DUP are looking for, we have heard an awful lot about their

social policy. That does not feature in these talks. Fundamentally, the

DUP wallop a financial package. In 2015, when people expect --

fundamentally, the DUP want a financial package. In 2015, when

people expected a hung parliament, the DUP make preparations. One sauce

said that the DUP could kill austerity.

-- one source said that the DUP could kill austerity.

A service has taken place this morning at a re-opened

Southwark Cathedral to remember those who died in the London

Meanwhile, police have released pictures of the fake suicide belts

the three attackers were wearing when they struck

Here's our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford.

Southwark's medieval cathedral, caught up last Saturday

This morning, for the first time since the London Bridge attack,

it opened its ancient doors to worshippers again.

Just over a week ago, this cathedral and this community

witnessed terrible things which should not have happened.

A young nurse gave her life by the entrance

to Montague Chambers, trying to save a fellow

Others suffered terribly, and many more would have been killed

and injured had it not been for the rapid and effective

Overnight, Scotland Yard released these pictures of the fake suicide

belts the men had constructed in the top floor bedsit in East Ham

The plan, apparently, to instil more terror

during the rampage with knives through Borough Market.

During the horror, police officers created a safe shelter

The inspector in charge of that unit explaining what

it was like to be caught up in what he called pandemonium.

There were still shots ringing out, then a

stream of people came out the market, running and screaming.

So we literally just pushed them into the

It was quite a big venue, and it seemed like the

safest place to put a large volume of people at that time

The police search of the crime scene at

It should reopen in the next few days, though detectives

investigating last Saturday's carnage are still working through

The youngest son of the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi

is reported to have been released from prison.

A militia group controlling the town of Zintan in western Libya says it

freed Saif al-Islam, who has spent the last six years

in jail following the revolution which overthrew his father.

Our Middle East correspondent, Orla Guerin, is in Tripoli.

Saif Gaddafi - for many here, the symbol of a hated dictatorship. Now,

once again, a free man. His release will reopen deep wounds. Supporters

will be hoping he tries to re-enter the political fray. He was Colonel

Gaddafi's heir apparent, expected to inherit the family dictatorship. He

studied economics in London and in the West for years he was the public

face of the regime. That was before the uprising of 2011, when he was

captured by militia as he tried to flee. Later, he appeared, minus a

few fingers, the result of an air strike, he said. He was sentenced to

death by a court in Tripoli for brutality during the Revolution and

is still wanted by the International criminal Court in the Hague. BICC

wants him tried on charges of war crimes and against humanity. -- the

ICC. His re-emergence will add another

element of unpredictability to Libya's unstable mix. The exact

whereabouts of Saif Gaddafi are unknown. One of his lawyers said

that information is not being released for security reasons, but a

source has told the BBC that he is in the Eastern region of two Brook

-- Tibruk. If he remains there, he will be beyond the reach of the

International criminal Court. A month after electing

Emmanuel Macron as their youngest-ever president,

the people of France The new president is

hoping his centrist party, formed a little over a year ago,

will win an outright majority. Half of the party's candidates

are new to politics. Our correspondent Lucy

Williamson is in Paris. Welcomer when you think that this

party is too new to have any seats in parliament, you will understand

why just a few months ago many people here thought it unlikely they

would get a majority. Predictions have suggested not only a majority

but they might win a landslide. If that happens, it will be a

turnaround in politics here, pushing the two traditional parties onto the

back burner. There are 577 seats being contested across the country.

The President's party is contesting almost all of them, and one of the

things that marks the party out from the others is the number of new

faces it has brought in as candidates. Half of them are drawn

from citizens across France who have never held political office and were

chosen from tens of thousands of CVs sent in to party headquarters. There

is a former bull-fighter in a former fighter pilot. I think it will be a

real test of whether Emmanuel Macron's vision is the one that

French voters want. Football, and 51 years

of hurt have ended thanks The Under-20s have just

won their World Cup Final It's the first time an England side

has reached a football World Cup Final at any level

since the victorious team of 1966. Our sports correspondent

Andy Swiss was watching. It's only taken 51 years,

but pinch yourself - yet it's England once again

in a World Cup final. The so-called young Lions, the under

20 is hoping to end decades They began as favourites,

not that Venezuela seemed to care. Ronaldo Lucena, inches

from a quite breathtaking lead. But England recovered

their poise and before Second time lucky for

Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Was that long wait for global

glory about to end? With less than 20 minutes left,

Venezuela were handed a lifeline. Penalty - but just when England

needed a hero, they found one. Keeper Freddie Woodman

to the rescue, to his And from there, they held

on for a famous triumph. COMMENTATOR: And England have won

the under-20 World Cup! England's first World Cup at any

age group since 1966. After years of looking

to the past, the future has You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. Good afternoon. It is a good

afternoon for large swathes of the UK, though not for all. There is

sunshine and showers,