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Barack Obama wins a second term in the White House. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
He tells jubilant supporters that victory over Mitt Romney has left | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
him more inspired than ever about the work that lies ahead. We have | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back. And we know, in our | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
hearts that for the United States hearts that for the United States | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
of America, the best is yet to come. The defeated Francois Mitterrand | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
says he wants Republicans to -- the defeated Mitt Romney says he wants | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Republicans to work with President Obama. At a Tim like this our | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
There are jubilant scenes among Obama's supporters as they | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
celebrate four more years. We will have all the latest | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
reaction to that result of the US Presidential election, from here in | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Washington DC and around the world. The other headlines: the new report | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
that says more at-risk children in England should be put into care. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
David Cameron pledges help for refugees of the Syrian conflict as | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Britain says it's to begin talks with armed Syrian rebels. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Four days before Remembrance Sunday, the Queen visits the factory which | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
has been making poppies for 90 years. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Later on BBC London: The mayor announces tube and bus fare also | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
rise by more than 4 nurse January and we report from Essex on the | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one, live from | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Washington DC. Barack Obama has won a second term | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
as President of the United States, defeating his Republican rival Mitt | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Romney. At just after 4.00am, the results from the state of Ohio gave | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
the Obama team the news they had been waiting for - he had enough | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
votes to win the Electoral College which picks the President, and so | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
secure another four years in the White House. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
This is the picture here so far, with the result in Florida still | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
too close to call. Barack Obama has won 303 Electoral College votes, to | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Mitt Romney's 206. The popular vote was much closer. Currently | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
President Obama has secured 40.1% of the overall vote. Mitt Romney, | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
not far behind, on 48.3%. We will have all the latest | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
reaction to Barack Obama's victory in just a moment. First our | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Washington correspondent, Steve Kingstone, has the story of a | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
dramatic election night. The first Family stepping out for a | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
second term. To the strains of Signed, Sealed, | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Delivered, he briefly savoured the moment and then looked forward, | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
drawing inspiration from the voters. You, the American people, reminded | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
know, in our hearts, that for the United States of America, the best | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
is yet to come. By then, it was nearly 2.00am. The | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
culmination of an exhilarating night. This is an ABC News special | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
report. Your voice, your vote. The race had been settled when US | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
networks called the result in the most important swing state of all. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
The battleground state of Ohio for President Obama, which means you | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
are looking at the President of the United States, Barack Obama. At his | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
hotel, the winner shared a moment with his running-mate and their | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
wives, before sealing victory publicly with a tweet. The caption | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
reads, "Four more years. " Then they parted. At Obama HQ in | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
Chicago. In New York's Times Square. -- they partyed. | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
It is the greatest things for America, for more years. We need | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
him for a better future. The Obama supporters are out here but this is | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
not the euphoria of 2008. It's principally relief. A weary nation | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
has given the President the benefit of the doubt. Barack Obama has | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
another four years to repay their trust. As for the challenger, his | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
moment has passed. Mitt Romney ran the President close in the over all | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
vote count but fell short in the decisive swing states. I so wish I | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
had been able it fulfil your hopes to lead the country in a different | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
direction. -- to fulfil. The nation choose another leader. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Anne and I join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
great nation. Thank you and God bless America. You guys are the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
best. Thank you, thank you so much. Thanks, guys. So what decided it? | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Well the exit polls tell us the economy was the dominant concern. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
But almost half of voters questioned felt things were now | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
getting better. And history may also conclude that the President | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
benefited from his handling of Hurricane Sandy, in whose aftermath | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
New Yorkers cast their votes yesterday. To take America forward, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Barack Obama will have to work with a divided Congress, but in victory | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
he offered optimism. Whether I earned your vote or not, I have | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
listened to you, I have learned from you. You've made me a better | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
President. And with your stories, and your struggles, I return to the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
work there is to do and the future that lies ahead. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
And so, it's over. A $2 billion election that shook America, but in | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
the end left the political landscape in tact. The hope of | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Obama supporters lives on, as it again falls to this man, who | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
deliver change. Well for weeks the polls had put | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the two contenders neck-and-neck and yet President Obama's strike | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
turned out to be far more convincing than many observers had | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
expected. Jeremy Vine explains Y$$TRANSMIT Here we are in front of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
our and White House to give you the story of the night. How it was that | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
two men went from being President and challenger to winner and loser. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
The answer comes down to Electoral College votes. To win a US | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Presidential election, you need 270. You can see the bar up there. They | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
are calculated baseding on population size. In nearly every | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
state, you win the state you win all the Electoral College votes. | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
Let'slike at the states as they came in. Indiana was again to the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Republicans, and Kentucky, South Carolina, the southern states, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and the | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
bankers, Vermont, Delaware, DC, Illinois, Barack Obama's home state. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
They all went blue. We tot up the Electoral College votes from those | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
different sets of states and we see in the early hours, the Republicans | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
were ahead. That changed. Let'slike at the next ones. Here they are -- | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
let's look at the next ones. Here they are. The two districts of | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Nebraska and mane are the two which split their Electoral College votes. | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
-- Maine. On the Democrat said, Mai, in ex-'s 1st district and New York, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
juicy votes there and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, all going blue | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
and we tot up the votes and you see the Democrats are edging closer to | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
the win line. The next set of states we have, Montana and Utah, | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Arizona, Idaho, Missouri, North Carolina was a begin but it wasn't | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
nearly enough for Mitt Romney. -- was a gain. On the Democrat side | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
holding on to difficult states as well a easy ones. California, the | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
biggest state by population. What I wouldia, Washington, Oregan, Iowa | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
and Ohio, was nip and tuck between the two. Absolutely crucial in | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
terms of the election mathematics. In the end it was those voting | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
groups that have supported Obama all the way through, single women | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
particularly, women more generally, voters who are either African- | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
American or Hispanic, working class voters, particularly auto-industry | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
voters in Ohio who were helped by the car industry bailout that | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
President Obama brought through. When those states in look what | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
happened - he took the presidency back. There were more states that | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
came in, but at this moment it was certain that Mitt Romney had failed | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
in his challenge to be the next President of the USA and Barack | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Obama had been re-elected. That was the story of the night. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
And that was Jeremy fine with the maths. Let's discuss it with our | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Washington correspondent Jane Little, who has been following the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
night's developments. It has been fascinating, in the sense that how | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
many weeks have all the pundits saying it is so close, so close, | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
you can't put a credit card between the two men and yet the scale | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
actually, as people woke up, far bigger than people thought? Quite a | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
surprise here. Although the victory was narrower than four years ago, | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
in 2008, it was more decisive. We still have Florida to hear from, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
still counting, but already he's well beyond the 270 electoral votes | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
he needed. He appears also to have won the popular vote, which is | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
important. Why? That's what people are asking. The improvement in the | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
economy, the car industry that he bailed out was important. Also, a | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
really good get-out-the-vote operation, but perhaps more | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
importantly a changing electorate. A lot of young people turned out to | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
vote. A lot of Hispanics, they voted for Barack Obama. They did so | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
more than last time. There is a real lesson in this for the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Republicans. They have relied very heavily on white, older voters and | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
male voters. They really need to go away, assess what went wrong, but | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
really look at broadening their base. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Thank you, Jane Little. Well, President Obama's first term | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
in office certainly wasn't the easiest, as we have been reflecting. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
He had to deal with America's worst economic crisis in decades and a | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
lot of resistance on Capitol Hill to many of his plans. So will the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
next four years be any easier? Our diplomatic correspondent James | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
Robbins has this assessment of the challenges ahead. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
Barack Obama has won despite the state of the American economy. He | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
has won a second term in the midst of a deeply-divided, sometimes | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
poisonous politics, capable of paralysing the re-elected | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
President's attempts at action. He still faces deadlock in the House | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
of Representatives where his Republican opponents have kept | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
their majority. But the defeated Mitt Romney made | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
this plea in his concession speech. The nation, as you know, is at a | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
critical point. At a time like this, we cannot risk partisan bickering | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
aisle to do the people's work. what are the big chalsnenges front | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
and centre, it's the economy. -- challenges? | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
On January 1st, America will head over what's been called "the fiscal | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
cliff." Temporary tax cuts expire and a commitment to cut public | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
spending kicks in. In all, America needs to save $620 | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
billion but economists worry that risks the loss of 2 million jobs | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
and could slash GDP by as much as 4%, plunging America back into | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
recession. The world beyond America's shore also watch all this | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
anxiously, but when they look at America's foreign policy, many | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
countries may be relieved that continuity is today's obvious | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
headline. Without unpredictable change at the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
top in America, the re-elected President is already signalling a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
second term where the United States will go to war, only in the most | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
exceptional circumstances. Our economy is recovering. A decade | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
of war is ending. A long campaign is now over. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
But it's huge uncertainty over Iran's nuclear intentions, which | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
remains the greatest threat. Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Netanyahu, says only early military strikes can stop Iran building a | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
bomb. He seemed to favour Mitt Romney and has been rebuffed, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
leaving Israel's elder statesmen to sound soothing about President | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
Obama today. And what is said about Iran, he will do. I am convinced | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
completely. The be responsibility that is falling on his shoulders | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
are not simple. The rise of China and imminent leadership change | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
there is another challenge for President Obama. How will that help | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
or hinder his efforts to rebuild America's prosperity? A President's | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
second and final term often feels quite different from the first. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
There's no need to worry about another punishing election campaign | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
but Barack Obama will worry about his legacy and the extent of change | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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More reaction to the victory in a moment, from our correspondent in | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Downing Street, Norman Smith, world affairs editor John Simpson in | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Beijing, but first let's talk a wee bit more about us economic | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
challenges ahead with Hugh Pym, who joins me. It is January 1st, this | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
looming date, and one wonders how much the President can mitigate | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
against that, particularly given the divided Congress. Well, indeed, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
and many business leaders and economists are saying the fiscal | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
clip is one of the biggest threat to the world economy right now, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
never mind just the US, because if the US does go into recession, it | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
will affect all its trading partners, including the UK, and | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
there are enough difficulties as it is with the eurozone. As James | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Robert was saying, it amounts to the equivalent of 4% of annual | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
economic output being taken out of the US economy, with spending cuts | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
which automatically kick in, at the end of tax cuts which will be | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
reversed. To give you an idea of what that amounts to, it is what | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
George Osborne is trying to do over three years, never mind over one | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
year, so it can be averted if there is agreement in the US political | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
establishment, but as we have seen in this campaign, there is a huge | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
divide between the democrat view that you taxed the wealthy and the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
republican view that it is better done by cutting spending. It is | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
quite a close call, this one. Norman Smith in Downing Street, | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
what reaction from David Cameron? As you would expect, there have | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
been messages of support and congratulations from the Prime | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Minister and Ed Miliband, but there is a paradox and the response of | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
politicians in that you would imagine an Obama victory would be a | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
cause for celebration in the Labour Party, but they are not holding | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
their head in hands in dismay in government, because they argued | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
that President Obama's victory shows that an incumbent leader can | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
win an election even when presiding over a sickly economy. More than | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
that, they suggest President Obama has adopted many of the same | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
messages on the economy that they have been pushing, namely that it | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
is the fault of the previous administration, the economy is | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
taking longer to turn around than expected, and we are all in this | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
together. More significant is that President Obama represents | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
continuity and stability. Mr Cameron already has a working | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
relationship with him, he is not having to rethink transatlantic | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
relations because of a new man in the White House. Norman, thank you. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Over to Beijing, where world affairs editor John Simpson is | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
there because China itself is not far off from selecting a new leader. | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
What will be the view where you are today? Well, the main view here is | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
what is going to happen here is much more important than what | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
happened in the United States. Everybody, just about everybody | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
tells you that the difference between the two main candidates in | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
America was pretty small, whereas here what happens, when the new | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
leadership is finally unveiled, in just a few days' time, will change | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
the world. That is certainly how they see it from this point of view. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
They were pretty dismissive, I have to say, on Chinese television, | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
state television, about the results, very little about it, in fact, they | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
rather talk about it dismissively, as money politics and said that so | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
much money had never been spent on an election before. And that was it, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
if you blinked a couple of times, you would not have seen it, because | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
all the rest of the news was about the preparations for the 18th Party | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
Congress. Nevertheless, President Hu Jintao, the outgoing President, | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
has congratulated, of course, President Obama, re-elected. He | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
said, China is willing to work with the United States for the future | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
and in order to get better relations and greater benefits to | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the two peoples. But it did not sound exactly very warm to me when | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
I went through the detail of the statement. John Simpson, Norman | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Smith, Hugh Pym, thanks very much for now. We will have more from | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
here in Washington DC in a little while, just a reminder that you can | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
get much more detail, background and breakdown of all the results | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
and audible means on the BBC News website. -- more detail. That is | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
all from Washington for now, back to you, Simon. | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
Thank you very much. Two other news now, at more children at risk of | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
harming England should be taken into care according to a report by | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
MPs who have warned that too often the benefit of the doubt is in two | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
neglectful parents who fail to improve. Here is Michael Buchanan. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
He is young woman had an unstable, problematic childhood. Both her | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
parents were imprisoned, and she was taken into care when she was | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
eight years old. With hindsight, she says, she should have been | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
removed from home when she was even younger. The system is designed | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
around how the parents are doing. If they are improving, we give the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
children back. If they are doing this, we take that away. It is all | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
about the parents, and it should be about the children. The death of | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Baby P in 2007 has led to an increase in the number of children | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
in care in England. Latest figures show that more than 65,000 are | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
being looked after by local authorities. But a committee of MPs | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
say more children should be removed from their parents. They say the | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
system is too slow and overly lenient. Too many parents | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
struggling to provide adequate parenting are given too many | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
chances, and children suffer too long. This charity says that most | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
of the calls it receives are from 13-17 year-olds, a group that the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
MPs assay are often let down and ignored by the care system. The | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
teenagers to call his helpline typically talk about a breakdown in | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
family relationships, about how difficult it is to find someone to | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
talk to, and how ashamed they are to have to seek support. But the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
charity and the MPs say that just because someone is 15 or 16 does | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
not mean they do not need support if they are being neglected. For | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
frontline professionals, however, putting more children into care is | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
not the answer. I think they need to be more children provided with | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
resources that intervenes early enough in her life so they do not | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
have to be taken into care. The last resort is care. A judge will | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
make a decision about that, and it should be the last resort. Despite | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
those reservations, the message to social workers from today's report | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
is clear, you need to remove more children from their parents. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
David Cameron says the UK is to open direct talks with rebel | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
fighters in Sir Ria, helping, he said, to shake the opposition to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
President Assad. He was speaking in a visit to Jordan where he has been | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
meeting refugees from the conflict in Syria. Frank Gardner was with | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
the Prime Minister. A dawn flight over a working | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
capital, flying low with the Prime Minister on a surprise visit to | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Jordan's troubled border with Syria. David Cameron was briefed by | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Jordanian officers. He wanted to hear first hand what is happening | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
across this valley. And these villages in Syria, are they | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
controlled by the regime or the Free Syria Army? Regime. This | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
border is tense, and with Syria getting worse, Mr Cameron admitted | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
the world is failing its people. Every night 500 refugees are | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
fleeing the most appalling persecution and bloodshed to come | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
to safety. And frankly, what we have done so far is not working, | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
the country behind me, Syria, is history is being written in the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
blood of its own people. This is about the closest that most Western | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
leaders have come to the conflict in Syria, at David Cameron has come | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
here today when Britain has announced it is gone to start | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
dealing directly with armed Syrian rebels. -- it is going to start. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
Some confusion at first over to David Cameron was at a nearby camp | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
holding 20,000 Syrian refugees. Many here are still traumatised. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
The majority of them have seen a family member die, they have seen | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
of violence, things that no children should ever be confronted | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
two, and some of the children have told us that they saw their school | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
teachers being shot and killed in front of them. I do not think you | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
get over that. The Prime Minister told me he blamed Syria's President | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
Assad squarely for their plight. While that man is running Syria, | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
while he is raining down tear on his people, they cannot be peace, | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
they cannot be progress. But no safe passage for him, you want him | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
to go to a law court. I would like to see him face justice, but any | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
option that involves him leaving the country and a transition taking | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
place would be good for the people behind me here. They want to go | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
back to their homes, they want a fresh start, and they cannot have | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
it well as add is running Syria. But that could still take some time. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
For children like these, there is little immediate prospect of a safe | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
return. The camp is fast becoming With just four days until | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Remembrance Sunday, the Queen has been visiting the Poppy Factory in | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
south-west London. The factory provides work for wounded ex- | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
service personnel and is celebrating its 90th anniversary. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Royal correspondent Peter Hunt reports. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
This is where 12 million copies have been made this year and some | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
100,000 Reeves. The one laid by the Queen on Remembrance Sunday has 93 | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
poppies. Why 93, she was asked? are right! At a factory where | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
everything is made by hand, visitors are encouraged to join in, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
even royal ones. As well as employing former servicemen and | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
women here, the charity also helps to veterans such as Jack English, | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
he was adjusting to civilian life after service in Bosnia, Northern | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
Ireland and Iraq. Get us back into work and give myself an identity | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
again, help us move forward, give me some respect again, some self- | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
confidence. And do you know, just start the path of rebuilding where | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
I want to go. This is a visit by the head of the armed forces who | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
lived through the Second World War to an organisation which has been | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
producing poppies for 90 years. The theme of remembrance will continue | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
on Sunday when, at the Cenotaph in London, the Queen will lead the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
nation's tribute to all those who have fought and died for their | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
country. A look at the weather now with Jay | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
It is looking pretty reasonable across large swathes of the United | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Kingdom this afternoon, a lot of dry and bright weather to be found, | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
but a noticeable breeze across northern parts. Not a completely | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
dry story, this line of cloud working its way into Scotland is a | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
weakening weather front, bringing rain into the afternoon. Quite wet | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
in the West of Scotland, but the east of Scotland is drier and | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
brighter, but there is a gusty wind. The tail-end of that weather front | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
pushes into Northern Ireland, some rain and bright spells. To the east | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
of Wales, brighter weather. For the west of Wales, thicker cloud and | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
light rain or drizzle. A little bit cloudy across Cornwall, but | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
generally speaking for the Southern Counties, yes, a fair bit of cloud, | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
but bright enough underneath it, and there are holes and the cloud | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
to be found, so the best of the sunshine across Kent, up through | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the East Anglia region and on into Lincolnshire. Not too windy in this | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
part of the world, temperatures up to 10 or 11 degrees. Similar in | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
northern England, but the main feature here will be the strength | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
of the wind, particularly to the east of the Pennines, after 45 mph, | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
maybe even a little bit more, and it is a crosswind on the A1 in | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
particular. The winds continue into the overnight period, patchy rain | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
slipping down the western side of England and Wales, and during the | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
small hours the wet weather in the West of Scotland will gradually | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
fade away. A lot of cloud developing overnight, but | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
temperatures not falling too far. Some rural spots may get a bit | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
colder. A lot of cloud to start Thursday, breezy, the winds easing, | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
cloud breaking up, so many of us brightening up quite nicely with | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
good spells of sunshine. Through the Midlands and the north-western | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
quadrant, a bit more cloudy and some rain. Temperatures looking | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
pretty good, 11 or 12 degrees. Change on the way for the end of | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
the week, the next Atlantic weather system is heading our way, quite a | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
lot of isobars heading our way as well, so some rain coming with that | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
front. That will mostly be across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
spreading southwards and eastwards to all parts. It clears for the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
start of the weekend, temperatures down by a couple of degrees, some | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
sunshine on Saturday but equally some showers around, and it will | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
turn colder for Saturday night, with a frosty start on Sunday, but | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Sunday looking like a decent day for most places. Clouds thickening | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
on Sunday night, rain arriving setting us up for a wet start to | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
Let's get more on our top story from Jane Hill in Washington. | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
Simon, thank you very much indeed, a few thoughts about what is to | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
come from a democratic strategists. With me in the studio is Matt | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Bennett, an aide to Vice President Al Gore. Hello to you. Your man has | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
won, but he has got a divided Congress, and that is a difficult | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
situation, things did not get done much in the last four years, how | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
difficult is it going to be? Much will depend on the next two months, | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
because he has to negotiate to get out of what they're calling the | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
fiscal cliff, this incredible witches brew of problems. If those | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
negotiations go well, we think a lot is possible. Bill Clinton faced | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
a similar situation with a divided Congress, and they got quite a bit | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
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 | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
make progress on Climate Change, immigration, perhaps infrastructure | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
and some other things, but much will depend on the next two months | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
of negotiation. January 1st is a grim day. Exactly. Thank you very | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
much indeed for being with us. That is it for now from Washington DC on | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
the day that Barack Obama won a second term as President of the | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
United States. Let's ends today's programme with some of the most | :30:03. | :30:13. | |
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Four more years! I am so happy, my first election that I have voted in, | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
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four more years! So excited, oh, my God, I am so excited! I cannot even | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
standard, oh, my God, I am shaking, I'm so excited! I think the right | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
man won the job, and I'm just glad that America took it upon | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
themselves to make the right decision. Being here at the White | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
House, My nation's capital, it is just like amazing. A huge | :31:09. | :31:14. |