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Barack Obama wins a second term in the White House.

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He tells jubilant supporters that victory over Mitt Romney has left

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him more inspired than ever about the work that lies ahead. We have

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picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back. And we know, in our

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hearts that for the United States hearts that for the United States

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of America, the best is yet to come. The defeated Francois Mitterrand

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says he wants Republicans to -- the defeated Mitt Romney says he wants

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Republicans to work with President Obama. At a Tim like this our

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leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

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There are jubilant scenes among Obama's supporters as they

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celebrate four more years. We will have all the latest

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reaction to that result of the US Presidential election, from here in

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Washington DC and around the world. The other headlines: the new report

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that says more at-risk children in England should be put into care.

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David Cameron pledges help for refugees of the Syrian conflict as

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Britain says it's to begin talks with armed Syrian rebels.

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Four days before Remembrance Sunday, the Queen visits the factory which

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has been making poppies for 90 years.

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Later on BBC London: The mayor announces tube and bus fare also

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rise by more than 4 nurse January and we report from Essex on the

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Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one, live from

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Washington DC. Barack Obama has won a second term

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as President of the United States, defeating his Republican rival Mitt

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Romney. At just after 4.00am, the results from the state of Ohio gave

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the Obama team the news they had been waiting for - he had enough

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votes to win the Electoral College which picks the President, and so

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secure another four years in the White House.

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This is the picture here so far, with the result in Florida still

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too close to call. Barack Obama has won 303 Electoral College votes, to

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Mitt Romney's 206. The popular vote was much closer. Currently

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President Obama has secured 40.1% of the overall vote. Mitt Romney,

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not far behind, on 48.3%. We will have all the latest

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reaction to Barack Obama's victory in just a moment. First our

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Washington correspondent, Steve Kingstone, has the story of a

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dramatic election night. The first Family stepping out for a

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second term. To the strains of Signed, Sealed,

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Delivered, he briefly savoured the moment and then looked forward,

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drawing inspiration from the voters. You, the American people, reminded

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us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been

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long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we

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know, in our hearts, that for the United States of America, the best

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is yet to come. By then, it was nearly 2.00am. The

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culmination of an exhilarating night. This is an ABC News special

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report. Your voice, your vote. The race had been settled when US

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networks called the result in the most important swing state of all.

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The battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, which means you

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are looking at the President of the United States, Barack Obama. At his

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hotel, the winner shared a moment with his running-mate and their

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wives, before sealing victory publicly with a tweet. The caption

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reads, "Four more years. " Then they parted. At Obama HQ in

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Chicago. In New York's Times Square. -- they partyed.

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It is the greatest things for America, for more years. We need

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him for a better future. The Obama supporters are out here but this is

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not the euphoria of 2008. It's principally relief. A weary nation

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has given the President the benefit of the doubt. Barack Obama has

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another four years to repay their trust. As for the challenger, his

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moment has passed. Mitt Romney ran the President close in the over all

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vote count but fell short in the decisive swing states. I so wish I

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had been able it fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a different

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direction. -- to fulfil. The nation choose another leader.

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Anne and I join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this

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great nation. Thank you and God bless America. You guys are the

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best. Thank you, thank you so much. Thanks, guys. So what decided it?

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Well the exit polls tell us the economy was the dominant concern.

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But almost half of voters questioned felt things were now

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getting better. And history may also conclude that the President

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benefited from his handling of Hurricane Sandy, in whose aftermath

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New Yorkers cast their votes yesterday. To take America forward,

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Barack Obama will have to work with a divided Congress, but in victory

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he offered optimism. Whether I earned your vote or not, I have

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listened to you, I have learned from you. You've made me a better

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President. And with your stories, and your struggles, I return to the

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White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the

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work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.

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And so, it's over. A $2 billion election that shook America, but in

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the end left the political landscape in tact. The hope of

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Obama supporters lives on, as it again falls to this man, who

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deliver change. Well for weeks the polls had put

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the two contenders neck-and-neck and yet President Obama's strike

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turned out to be far more convincing than many observers had

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expected. Jeremy Vine explains Y$$TRANSMIT Here we are in front of

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our and White House to give you the story of the night. How it was that

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two men went from being President and challenger to winner and loser.

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The answer comes down to Electoral College votes. To win a US

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Presidential election, you need 270. You can see the bar up there. They

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are calculated baseding on population size. In nearly every

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state, you win the state you win all the Electoral College votes.

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Let'slike at the states as they came in. Indiana was again to the

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Republicans, and Kentucky, South Carolina, the southern states,

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Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and the

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bankers, Vermont, Delaware, DC, Illinois, Barack Obama's home state.

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They all went blue. We tot up the Electoral College votes from those

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different sets of states and we see in the early hours, the Republicans

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were ahead. That changed. Let'slike at the next ones. Here they are --

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let's look at the next ones. Here they are. The two districts of

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Nebraska and mane are the two which split their Electoral College votes.

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-- Maine. On the Democrat said, Mai, in ex-'s 1st district and New York,

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juicy votes there and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, all going blue

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and we tot up the votes and you see the Democrats are edging closer to

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the win line. The next set of states we have, Montana and Utah,

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Arizona, Idaho, Missouri, North Carolina was a begin but it wasn't

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nearly enough for Mitt Romney. -- was a gain. On the Democrat side

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holding on to difficult states as well a easy ones. California, the

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biggest state by population. What I wouldia, Washington, Oregan, Iowa

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and Ohio, was nip and tuck between the two. Absolutely crucial in

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terms of the election mathematics. In the end it was those voting

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groups that have supported Obama all the way through, single women

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particularly, women more generally, voters who are either African-

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American or Hispanic, working class voters, particularly auto-industry

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voters in Ohio who were helped by the car industry bailout that

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President Obama brought through. When those states in look what

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happened - he took the presidency back. There were more states that

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came in, but at this moment it was certain that Mitt Romney had failed

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in his challenge to be the next President of the USA and Barack

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Obama had been re-elected. That was the story of the night.

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And that was Jeremy fine with the maths. Let's discuss it with our

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Washington correspondent Jane Little, who has been following the

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night's developments. It has been fascinating, in the sense that how

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many weeks have all the pundits saying it is so close, so close,

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you can't put a credit card between the two men and yet the scale

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actually, as people woke up, far bigger than people thought? Quite a

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surprise here. Although the victory was narrower than four years ago,

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in 2008, it was more decisive. We still have Florida to hear from,

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still counting, but already he's well beyond the 270 electoral votes

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he needed. He appears also to have won the popular vote, which is

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important. Why? That's what people are asking. The improvement in the

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economy, the car industry that he bailed out was important. Also, a

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really good get-out-the-vote operation, but perhaps more

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importantly a changing electorate. A lot of young people turned out to

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vote. A lot of Hispanics, they voted for Barack Obama. They did so

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more than last time. There is a real lesson in this for the

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Republicans. They have relied very heavily on white, older voters and

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male voters. They really need to go away, assess what went wrong, but

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really look at broadening their base.

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Thank you, Jane Little. Well, President Obama's first term

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in office certainly wasn't the easiest, as we have been reflecting.

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He had to deal with America's worst economic crisis in decades and a

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lot of resistance on Capitol Hill to many of his plans. So will the

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next four years be any easier? Our diplomatic correspondent James

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Robbins has this assessment of the challenges ahead.

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Barack Obama has won despite the state of the American economy. He

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has won a second term in the midst of a deeply-divided, sometimes

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poisonous politics, capable of paralysing the re-elected

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President's attempts at action. He still faces deadlock in the House

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of Representatives where his Republican opponents have kept

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their majority. But the defeated Mitt Romney made

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this plea in his concession speech. The nation, as you know, is at a

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critical point. At a time like this, we cannot risk partisan bickering

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and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the

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aisle to do the people's work. what are the big chalsnenges front

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and centre, it's the economy. -- challenges?

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On January 1st, America will head over what's been called "the fiscal

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cliff." Temporary tax cuts expire and a commitment to cut public

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spending kicks in. In all, America needs to save $620

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billion but economists worry that risks the loss of 2 million jobs

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and could slash GDP by as much as 4%, plunging America back into

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recession. The world beyond America's shore also watch all this

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anxiously, but when they look at America's foreign policy, many

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countries may be relieved that continuity is today's obvious

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headline. Without unpredictable change at the

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top in America, the re-elected President is already signalling a

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second term where the United States will go to war, only in the most

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exceptional circumstances. Our economy is recovering. A decade

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of war is ending. A long campaign is now over.

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But it's huge uncertainty over Iran's nuclear intentions, which

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remains the greatest threat. Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin

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Netanyahu, says only early military strikes can stop Iran building a

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bomb. He seemed to favour Mitt Romney and has been rebuffed,

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leaving Israel's elder statesmen to sound soothing about President

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Obama today. And what is said about Iran, he will do. I am convinced

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completely. The be responsibility that is falling on his shoulders

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are not simple. The rise of China and imminent leadership change

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there is another challenge for President Obama. How will that help

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or hinder his efforts to rebuild America's prosperity? A President's

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second and final term often feels quite different from the first.

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There's no need to worry about another punishing election campaign

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but Barack Obama will worry about his legacy and the extent of change

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More reaction to the victory in a moment, from our correspondent in

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Downing Street, Norman Smith, world affairs editor John Simpson in

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Beijing, but first let's talk a wee bit more about us economic

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challenges ahead with Hugh Pym, who joins me. It is January 1st, this

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looming date, and one wonders how much the President can mitigate

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against that, particularly given the divided Congress. Well, indeed,

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and many business leaders and economists are saying the fiscal

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clip is one of the biggest threat to the world economy right now,

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never mind just the US, because if the US does go into recession, it

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will affect all its trading partners, including the UK, and

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there are enough difficulties as it is with the eurozone. As James

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Robert was saying, it amounts to the equivalent of 4% of annual

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economic output being taken out of the US economy, with spending cuts

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which automatically kick in, at the end of tax cuts which will be

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reversed. To give you an idea of what that amounts to, it is what

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George Osborne is trying to do over three years, never mind over one

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year, so it can be averted if there is agreement in the US political

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establishment, but as we have seen in this campaign, there is a huge

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divide between the democrat view that you taxed the wealthy and the

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republican view that it is better done by cutting spending. It is

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quite a close call, this one. Norman Smith in Downing Street,

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what reaction from David Cameron? As you would expect, there have

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been messages of support and congratulations from the Prime

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Minister and Ed Miliband, but there is a paradox and the response of

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politicians in that you would imagine an Obama victory would be a

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cause for celebration in the Labour Party, but they are not holding

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their head in hands in dismay in government, because they argued

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that President Obama's victory shows that an incumbent leader can

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win an election even when presiding over a sickly economy. More than

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that, they suggest President Obama has adopted many of the same

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messages on the economy that they have been pushing, namely that it

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is the fault of the previous administration, the economy is

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taking longer to turn around than expected, and we are all in this

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together. More significant is that President Obama represents

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continuity and stability. Mr Cameron already has a working

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relationship with him, he is not having to rethink transatlantic

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relations because of a new man in the White House. Norman, thank you.

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Over to Beijing, where world affairs editor John Simpson is

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there because China itself is not far off from selecting a new leader.

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What will be the view where you are today? Well, the main view here is

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what is going to happen here is much more important than what

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happened in the United States. Everybody, just about everybody

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tells you that the difference between the two main candidates in

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America was pretty small, whereas here what happens, when the new

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leadership is finally unveiled, in just a few days' time, will change

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the world. That is certainly how they see it from this point of view.

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They were pretty dismissive, I have to say, on Chinese television,

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state television, about the results, very little about it, in fact, they

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rather talk about it dismissively, as money politics and said that so

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much money had never been spent on an election before. And that was it,

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if you blinked a couple of times, you would not have seen it, because

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all the rest of the news was about the preparations for the 18th Party

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Congress. Nevertheless, President Hu Jintao, the outgoing President,

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has congratulated, of course, President Obama, re-elected. He

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said, China is willing to work with the United States for the future

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and in order to get better relations and greater benefits to

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the two peoples. But it did not sound exactly very warm to me when

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I went through the detail of the statement. John Simpson, Norman

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Smith, Hugh Pym, thanks very much for now. We will have more from

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here in Washington DC in a little while, just a reminder that you can

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get much more detail, background and breakdown of all the results

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and audible means on the BBC News website. -- more detail. That is

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all from Washington for now, back to you, Simon.

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Thank you very much. Two other news now, at more children at risk of

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harming England should be taken into care according to a report by

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MPs who have warned that too often the benefit of the doubt is in two

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neglectful parents who fail to improve. Here is Michael Buchanan.

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He is young woman had an unstable, problematic childhood. Both her

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parents were imprisoned, and she was taken into care when she was

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eight years old. With hindsight, she says, she should have been

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removed from home when she was even younger. The system is designed

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around how the parents are doing. If they are improving, we give the

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children back. If they are doing this, we take that away. It is all

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about the parents, and it should be about the children. The death of

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Baby P in 2007 has led to an increase in the number of children

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in care in England. Latest figures show that more than 65,000 are

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being looked after by local authorities. But a committee of MPs

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say more children should be removed from their parents. They say the

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system is too slow and overly lenient. Too many parents

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struggling to provide adequate parenting are given too many

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chances, and children suffer too long. This charity says that most

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of the calls it receives are from 13-17 year-olds, a group that the

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MPs assay are often let down and ignored by the care system. The

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teenagers to call his helpline typically talk about a breakdown in

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family relationships, about how difficult it is to find someone to

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talk to, and how ashamed they are to have to seek support. But the

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charity and the MPs say that just because someone is 15 or 16 does

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not mean they do not need support if they are being neglected. For

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frontline professionals, however, putting more children into care is

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not the answer. I think they need to be more children provided with

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resources that intervenes early enough in her life so they do not

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have to be taken into care. The last resort is care. A judge will

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make a decision about that, and it should be the last resort. Despite

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those reservations, the message to social workers from today's report

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is clear, you need to remove more children from their parents.

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David Cameron says the UK is to open direct talks with rebel

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fighters in Sir Ria, helping, he said, to shake the opposition to

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President Assad. He was speaking in a visit to Jordan where he has been

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meeting refugees from the conflict in Syria. Frank Gardner was with

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the Prime Minister. A dawn flight over a working

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capital, flying low with the Prime Minister on a surprise visit to

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Jordan's troubled border with Syria. David Cameron was briefed by

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Jordanian officers. He wanted to hear first hand what is happening

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across this valley. And these villages in Syria, are they

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controlled by the regime or the Free Syria Army? Regime. This

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border is tense, and with Syria getting worse, Mr Cameron admitted

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the world is failing its people. Every night 500 refugees are

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fleeing the most appalling persecution and bloodshed to come

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to safety. And frankly, what we have done so far is not working,

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the country behind me, Syria, is history is being written in the

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blood of its own people. This is about the closest that most Western

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leaders have come to the conflict in Syria, at David Cameron has come

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here today when Britain has announced it is gone to start

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dealing directly with armed Syrian rebels. -- it is going to start.

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Some confusion at first over to David Cameron was at a nearby camp

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holding 20,000 Syrian refugees. Many here are still traumatised.

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The majority of them have seen a family member die, they have seen

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of violence, things that no children should ever be confronted

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two, and some of the children have told us that they saw their school

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teachers being shot and killed in front of them. I do not think you

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get over that. The Prime Minister told me he blamed Syria's President

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Assad squarely for their plight. While that man is running Syria,

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while he is raining down tear on his people, they cannot be peace,

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they cannot be progress. But no safe passage for him, you want him

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to go to a law court. I would like to see him face justice, but any

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option that involves him leaving the country and a transition taking

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place would be good for the people behind me here. They want to go

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back to their homes, they want a fresh start, and they cannot have

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it well as add is running Syria. But that could still take some time.

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For children like these, there is little immediate prospect of a safe

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return. The camp is fast becoming With just four days until

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Remembrance Sunday, the Queen has been visiting the Poppy Factory in

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south-west London. The factory provides work for wounded ex-

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service personnel and is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

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Royal correspondent Peter Hunt reports.

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This is where 12 million copies have been made this year and some

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100,000 Reeves. The one laid by the Queen on Remembrance Sunday has 93

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poppies. Why 93, she was asked? are right! At a factory where

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everything is made by hand, visitors are encouraged to join in,

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even royal ones. As well as employing former servicemen and

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women here, the charity also helps to veterans such as Jack English,

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he was adjusting to civilian life after service in Bosnia, Northern

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Ireland and Iraq. Get us back into work and give myself an identity

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again, help us move forward, give me some respect again, some self-

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confidence. And do you know, just start the path of rebuilding where

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I want to go. This is a visit by the head of the armed forces who

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lived through the Second World War to an organisation which has been

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producing poppies for 90 years. The theme of remembrance will continue

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on Sunday when, at the Cenotaph in London, the Queen will lead the

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nation's tribute to all those who have fought and died for their

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country. A look at the weather now with Jay

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It is looking pretty reasonable across large swathes of the United

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Kingdom this afternoon, a lot of dry and bright weather to be found,

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but a noticeable breeze across northern parts. Not a completely

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dry story, this line of cloud working its way into Scotland is a

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weakening weather front, bringing rain into the afternoon. Quite wet

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in the West of Scotland, but the east of Scotland is drier and

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brighter, but there is a gusty wind. The tail-end of that weather front

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pushes into Northern Ireland, some rain and bright spells. To the east

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of Wales, brighter weather. For the west of Wales, thicker cloud and

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light rain or drizzle. A little bit cloudy across Cornwall, but

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generally speaking for the Southern Counties, yes, a fair bit of cloud,

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but bright enough underneath it, and there are holes and the cloud

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to be found, so the best of the sunshine across Kent, up through

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the East Anglia region and on into Lincolnshire. Not too windy in this

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part of the world, temperatures up to 10 or 11 degrees. Similar in

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northern England, but the main feature here will be the strength

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of the wind, particularly to the east of the Pennines, after 45 mph,

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maybe even a little bit more, and it is a crosswind on the A1 in

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particular. The winds continue into the overnight period, patchy rain

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slipping down the western side of England and Wales, and during the

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small hours the wet weather in the West of Scotland will gradually

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fade away. A lot of cloud developing overnight, but

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temperatures not falling too far. Some rural spots may get a bit

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colder. A lot of cloud to start Thursday, breezy, the winds easing,

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cloud breaking up, so many of us brightening up quite nicely with

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good spells of sunshine. Through the Midlands and the north-western

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quadrant, a bit more cloudy and some rain. Temperatures looking

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pretty good, 11 or 12 degrees. Change on the way for the end of

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the week, the next Atlantic weather system is heading our way, quite a

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lot of isobars heading our way as well, so some rain coming with that

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front. That will mostly be across Scotland and Northern Ireland

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spreading southwards and eastwards to all parts. It clears for the

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start of the weekend, temperatures down by a couple of degrees, some

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sunshine on Saturday but equally some showers around, and it will

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turn colder for Saturday night, with a frosty start on Sunday, but

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Sunday looking like a decent day for most places. Clouds thickening

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on Sunday night, rain arriving setting us up for a wet start to

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Let's get more on our top story from Jane Hill in Washington.

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Simon, thank you very much indeed, a few thoughts about what is to

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come from a democratic strategists. With me in the studio is Matt

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Bennett, an aide to Vice President Al Gore. Hello to you. Your man has

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won, but he has got a divided Congress, and that is a difficult

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situation, things did not get done much in the last four years, how

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difficult is it going to be? Much will depend on the next two months,

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because he has to negotiate to get out of what they're calling the

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fiscal cliff, this incredible witches brew of problems. If those

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negotiations go well, we think a lot is possible. Bill Clinton faced

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a similar situation with a divided Congress, and they got quite a bit

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down, welfare reform, a big deal to provide healthcare to children, and

:29:31.:29:36.

so we hope that the Republicans will be willing to negotiate and

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make progress on Climate Change, immigration, perhaps infrastructure

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and some other things, but much will depend on the next two months

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of negotiation. January 1st is a grim day. Exactly. Thank you very

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much indeed for being with us. That is it for now from Washington DC on

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the day that Barack Obama won a second term as President of the

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United States. Let's ends today's programme with some of the most

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Four more years! I am so happy, my first election that I have voted in,

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four more years! So excited, oh, my God, I am so excited! I cannot even

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standard, oh, my God, I am shaking, I'm so excited! I think the right

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man won the job, and I'm just glad that America took it upon

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themselves to make the right decision. Being here at the White

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House, My nation's capital, it is just like amazing. A huge

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