:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:07. > :00:10.The bitterly divisive referendum campaign over the UK's future
:00:11. > :00:19.Political leaders are in the final hours of their nationwide tours,
:00:20. > :00:22.seeking to woo the undecided and ensure their loyal supporters go
:00:23. > :00:35.On that ballot paper is British jobs, British families, the finances
:00:36. > :00:40.of people in our country, the strength of our country and that is
:00:41. > :00:44.why we must vote Remain tomorrow. If you think the European Union is
:00:45. > :00:48.going in the wrong direction and fundamentally different from what he
:00:49. > :00:56.signed up for in 1972, which it is, then you should vote Leave and take
:00:57. > :01:00.back control tomorrow. And here in Kent in the South East, there are
:01:01. > :01:03.two at Euro contests preoccupying people. The football has just
:01:04. > :01:14.finished, so now they can concentrate on which way they will
:01:15. > :01:18.vote tomorrow. In minutes silence was held at square here in London
:01:19. > :01:23.for Jo Cox were 34 husband paid tribute. We try to remember not how
:01:24. > :01:30.cruelly she was taken from us, but how unbelievably lucky we were to
:01:31. > :01:34.have her in our lives for so long. And rain, mud and wellingtons. It
:01:35. > :01:38.can only be Glastonbury, the world's biggest rock festival gets often
:01:39. > :01:49.that another -- to yet another challenging start.
:01:50. > :01:53.It's the final big campaign push on the eve of an historic vote:
:01:54. > :01:56.Will the UK stay or leave the European Union?
:01:57. > :02:01.On Thursday, British voters get a deciding voice for the first time
:02:02. > :02:05.since the original referendum back in 1975.
:02:06. > :02:08.Public sentiment is frankly very hard for the pollsters to measure,
:02:09. > :02:11.but we THINK it's very close, and that's led to a real burst
:02:12. > :02:14.of energy over the last 24 hours, as those leading
:02:15. > :02:17.the campaigns to Remain or get Out make their appeals across England,
:02:18. > :02:18.Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
:02:19. > :02:28.Two Prime Ministers for the price of one.
:02:29. > :02:30.David Cameron was joined on
:02:31. > :02:33.his whistle-stop tour by John Major, a man who knows all about
:02:34. > :02:38.He once used colourful language to describe Eurosceptics
:02:39. > :02:42.at Number Ten and his description of Leave campaigners
:02:43. > :02:51.If they vote to Leave on the basis of half-truths and
:02:52. > :02:53.misunderstandings, then pretty soon, the grave-diggers of our prosperity
:02:54. > :02:59.will have some very serious questions to answer.
:03:00. > :03:05.They will have to account for what they have said and done.
:03:06. > :03:09.But that will be of no consolation, for we will be out.
:03:10. > :03:15.Diminished as an influence on the world.
:03:16. > :03:17.And yes, that is Labour's former deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
:03:18. > :03:19.The current party leader will not share
:03:20. > :03:21.a platform with one Conservative minister,
:03:22. > :03:23.never mind two, but at his
:03:24. > :03:25.own rally this afternoon, Jeremy Corbyn delivered a Remain
:03:26. > :03:30.By voting to Remain, we can protect jobs
:03:31. > :03:37.Millions of jobs across this country are dependent on exports and
:03:38. > :03:43.We can defend workers' rights, which our Tory
:03:44. > :03:46.leaders and leaders of the Exit campaign
:03:47. > :03:48.think are unimportant and
:03:49. > :03:53.want to scrap the regulations that protect so much.
:03:54. > :03:55.If you didn't know already, a trip to Westminster would
:03:56. > :03:59.tell you that we are on the verge of a momentous decision, perhaps the
:04:00. > :04:01.biggest the country's taken in 40 years,
:04:02. > :04:05.because over here, the world's press
:04:06. > :04:08.is already lining up, waiting to report on the result of
:04:09. > :04:14.the referendum and with the polls about opening less than 24 hours,
:04:15. > :04:18.the two campaigns have two tasks, one is to motivate the core
:04:19. > :04:19.supporters to go out and cast their ballots
:04:20. > :04:21.tomorrow, the other is to
:04:22. > :04:24.get through at the last minute to those who are yet to
:04:25. > :04:29.Voters tend to think that both sides have made, well, rather
:04:30. > :04:32.fishy claims about what might happen in the event of Brexit and see
:04:33. > :04:38.Boris Johnson started his day in Billingsgate Market and then took to
:04:39. > :04:41.the air, rather than the airwaves, to travel through eastern England
:04:42. > :04:44.trying to convince voters that leaving the EU would not lead to
:04:45. > :04:50.Lots of the people I've talked to and lots of
:04:51. > :04:55.businesses I've talked to say you will see a huge improvement
:04:56. > :04:57.if we get out from under the weight of the
:04:58. > :05:00.Brussels machine and are able to set our taxes and laws in accordance
:05:01. > :05:10.And when it comes to getting the Out vote out, the Ukip leader
:05:11. > :05:15.will get those backing Brexit better motivated.
:05:16. > :05:17.Vote with your heart, your soul, with pride in this
:05:18. > :05:24.country and its people and together, can make tomorrow our Independence
:05:25. > :05:27.Day, a big day in our national history.
:05:28. > :05:30.Voters are not being given any time for quiet reflection.
:05:31. > :05:31.The polls are too close
:05:32. > :05:40.So let's get more on the mood among voters.
:05:41. > :05:43.spent the day in the pub in Tunbridge Wells
:05:44. > :05:52.Which side is looking more cheerful, Ros?
:05:53. > :06:01.Which way would you put go if you were an island? I think it might go
:06:02. > :06:04.the way of remainder, which is completely unscientific and is
:06:05. > :06:08.interesting, because most people who know Tunbridge Wells better than in
:06:09. > :06:13.say most people here are going to vote Leave, so I am not sure. But
:06:14. > :06:17.what's been suggesting is to win is how many people are talking about
:06:18. > :06:21.this and it has caught people's imagination. One of the things
:06:22. > :06:24.that's been so fascinating about this campaign is it has revealed
:06:25. > :06:28.fixture dimensions to the politics of our country. We've got people
:06:29. > :06:32.from the same political party on either side and that applies to the
:06:33. > :06:37.Lib Dems, the Conservatives and Labour as well. On top of that,
:06:38. > :06:40.we've started to get a new understandings of the politics of
:06:41. > :06:45.the generations and I want to show you this next report is to highlight
:06:46. > :06:48.of this. I'm in Tunbridge Wells, another town in Kent is Margate, on
:06:49. > :06:52.the coast and Howard Johnson has made a report that highlights how
:06:53. > :06:54.understanding the generations helps us understand which way people will
:06:55. > :07:13.go tomorrow. I am voting Leave and I've drawn at
:07:14. > :07:17.some faceless bureaucrats pushing their laws on to England. The bigger
:07:18. > :07:21.the organisation and the further away it is that makes our laws mean
:07:22. > :07:31.is that they will not be specific to us and they will not be the best
:07:32. > :07:35.laws for us. I want to vote to Remain, because like these boats, I
:07:36. > :07:39.want to believe in travel and be European. If we don't vote Remain,
:07:40. > :07:46.it will be a little England mentality for this country. I'm
:07:47. > :07:50.voting to Leave, because Brussels that dictates what farmers and our
:07:51. > :07:56.fishing industry can and can't produce and then produce stuff and
:07:57. > :08:00.sell it back to us. I'm going to votes to Remain, because I think if
:08:01. > :08:05.we leave it will weaken our economy and I've drawn a picture of Great
:08:06. > :08:08.Britain with a sad face, because that is what I'm tried to get
:08:09. > :08:24.across, that it will weaken our economy.
:08:25. > :08:32.I'm voting to Remain, because of the European idea is important, but
:08:33. > :08:35.Brussels has become a gravy train. The accountability needs to be
:08:36. > :08:39.improved, my family came to Britain in the 1880s and it is important we
:08:40. > :08:53.Remain. I'm talking to you from a Kent town
:08:54. > :08:58.called Tunbridge Wells, about halfway from London and south
:08:59. > :09:02.towards the coast, about 50 kilometres away. I'm joined by a
:09:03. > :09:04.couple of people spending the evening here. There are definitely
:09:05. > :09:09.doing something right because they have drinks and I just have a tablet
:09:10. > :09:14.computer, which is not as exciting. How will you vote? I'm voting In,
:09:15. > :09:18.because I believe in a printable of what Europe stands for and I think
:09:19. > :09:23.countries should work together and we can only make Europe a better
:09:24. > :09:26.from within. I'm interested by that phrase what Europe stands for. I
:09:27. > :09:32.think we get lots of different and as if I asked everyone in this blog.
:09:33. > :09:38.What do you mean by it? It's about collaboration, democracy, improving
:09:39. > :09:42.rights for workers and actually, if you look at some of the changes that
:09:43. > :09:47.a lot of the eastern European states have made in order to qualify for
:09:48. > :09:50.Europe in a membership, I think there's been a massive force for
:09:51. > :09:52.good in developing those countries and the fact that Britain can be
:09:53. > :09:59.part of that and help those codgers developed and build a democratic
:10:00. > :10:02.prosperous continents can only be a good thing, especially if you look
:10:03. > :10:06.at the history of Europe in the last century. We are incredibly lucky to
:10:07. > :10:10.have grown up in a time where there's been no war in Europe and
:10:11. > :10:15.are not think if we vote Out tomorrow there will be war in
:10:16. > :10:23.Europe, but I do think the language of the Out campaign has been a bit
:10:24. > :10:31.inflammatory. Very worrying. She sounds very intelligent! I was a
:10:32. > :10:35.proprietor of a business and I have always been independent and I just
:10:36. > :10:40.don't like the idea of being ruled by these faceless presidents that I
:10:41. > :10:46.haven't voted for, don't know who they are and I think that we are
:10:47. > :10:51.British... But we take part in European elections. We do. I'm quite
:10:52. > :10:54.happy for the economic joining, but not for the political. I want to
:10:55. > :11:01.rule myself and vote the Government out if I don't approve and I don't
:11:02. > :11:05.like the way it is heading. I think it will be a federal state and I
:11:06. > :11:13.actually feel quite strongly that if we lost the war and Germany had one,
:11:14. > :11:19.this is the way we would be now. With there are basically making all
:11:20. > :11:25.the rules and regulations. I think it is a slippery slope argument and
:11:26. > :11:32.I think people have different views about whether a federated Europe is
:11:33. > :11:38.where it will end up, I don't know. I think voting Know now can only
:11:39. > :11:45.make things worse for people in our country, so from an economic point
:11:46. > :11:51.of view and I think it would allow too many negative views to win...
:11:52. > :11:55.You both sound convinced, so I'm pretty sure the campaign will not
:11:56. > :11:59.swear you one way or the other in the last few hours. Are you anxious
:12:00. > :12:04.about what you will see when you turn on the news on a Friday
:12:05. > :12:09.morning? No, I think we are a competitive nation, competition does
:12:10. > :12:15.not hurt business and it is good for the population. Giving the process
:12:16. > :12:24.is a positive one. Are you anxious, you sound positive? I am kind of
:12:25. > :12:31.anxious, I'm not anxious... I think that will be fine on its own, I
:12:32. > :12:34.don't think we'd have a catastrophe. I tell you what, I can see this
:12:35. > :12:38.conversation will run for a little while and I know there is then used
:12:39. > :12:42.to get into today's programme, so we will continue talking and I will let
:12:43. > :12:43.Philip get on with telling the viewers what else you have on the
:12:44. > :12:59.programme. Senior figures in Europe have been
:13:00. > :13:05.delivering a final appeals to British voters. Jean-Claude Juncker
:13:06. > :13:07.warned there can be no renegotiation after Thursday's referendum.
:13:08. > :13:09.We concluded a deal with the Prime Minister.
:13:10. > :13:12.He got the maximum he could receive and we gave the
:13:13. > :13:14.maximum we could give, so there will be no kind
:13:15. > :13:17.of negotiation on that, nor on the agreement
:13:18. > :13:25.as far as any kind of negotiations are concerned.
:13:26. > :13:43.But Boris Johnson was quick to give his reaction to those comments from
:13:44. > :13:46.your's top official. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the
:13:47. > :13:52.European Commission has really given the game away by saying that Britain
:13:53. > :13:58.has had its negotiation, there is absolutely no prospect of any
:13:59. > :14:03.further changes if we vote to stay In. And that confirms for me that
:14:04. > :14:06.the only way to change our relationship with the European Union
:14:07. > :14:11.is to vote Leave and take back control tomorrow. What about the
:14:12. > :14:17.rest of the world which is now sitting up and watching this very
:14:18. > :14:24.closely? We have correspondence in Paris and Washington. Francois
:14:25. > :14:30.Hollow and has said a No vote could pose a serious risks to Britain's
:14:31. > :14:35.access to the single market. And if we are talking business, that
:14:36. > :14:40.matters. What strikes me is that it is the coordinated effort by the EU
:14:41. > :14:43.that up until now the policy has been not to speak out for fear of
:14:44. > :14:49.influence in the debate which may not be welcoming in Europe. The
:14:50. > :14:53.French obviously wants Britain to stay in, it is very worried about a
:14:54. > :14:57.Brexit and the contagion effect it would have on other nations and the
:14:58. > :15:02.bee balancing of power in the side Europe. The French don't feel
:15:03. > :15:07.comfortable about sitting at the table with just Germany. Britain has
:15:08. > :15:12.always been a welcome and balancing factor in all of that. So what we
:15:13. > :15:16.have is the president on the of the vote speaking just as Jean-Claude
:15:17. > :15:20.Juncker has and saying to voters in Britain, don't be under any
:15:21. > :15:25.illusions, if you are out, you are out. There will be no third way.
:15:26. > :15:29.There will be no renegotiation of possible, there are risks about
:15:30. > :15:34.access to the single market and therefore think carefully. It is a
:15:35. > :15:40.calibrated response from the French and from Luxembourg, and they don't
:15:41. > :15:44.want to wait in a too heavy, because that will play into the Brexit camp
:15:45. > :15:50.and they want to remind British voters that it is not cost free.
:15:51. > :15:58.Leaving Europe would mean, as things stand, leaving the access to the
:15:59. > :16:04.free market. It is legitimately able to speculate whether never means
:16:05. > :16:08.never, because so far in Europe never does not actually need never,
:16:09. > :16:13.renegotiation is have always been possible in the past. Barbra, you
:16:14. > :16:18.are in front of the White House. What is the official US position on
:16:19. > :16:26.Brexit for Remain and people very interested? -- our people? It has
:16:27. > :16:30.been covered by closely by the American media which is mostly
:16:31. > :16:32.focused on the presidential election, but it has been watched
:16:33. > :16:37.closely by the political and economic elite and there is concern
:16:38. > :16:41.and the message is that they want Britain to Remain, you have a
:16:42. > :16:44.message in a highly unusual intervention from President Obama
:16:45. > :16:47.when he went to Britain. There were letters from the former Secretary of
:16:48. > :16:52.State, the former secretary defends and Treasury urging a Remain vote
:16:53. > :16:56.which is quite unusual. There is concern about financial and trade
:16:57. > :17:02.implications, but the bigger concern is up about the EU being weakened,
:17:03. > :17:06.that Brexit would weaken it and for America, it's one is a strong,
:17:07. > :17:09.united Europe as a partner for cooperation on all sorts of
:17:10. > :17:14.international issues and if it does not have that, the world becomes a
:17:15. > :17:22.more complicated place for it. Thank you.
:17:23. > :17:26.but it's been a bruising two months of campaigning.
:17:27. > :17:28.Christian Fraser looks back at how the referendum
:17:29. > :17:33.Just hours of the campaign are left to run.
:17:34. > :17:36.Have you decided which box you are going to put a cross in
:17:37. > :17:39.This is what it will look like when you get into
:17:40. > :17:44.Both sides have worked tirelessly to convince you which box to choose.
:17:45. > :17:48.Here is a brief reminder of the key moments in the campaign.
:17:49. > :17:55.The 20th of February, David Cameron had returned
:17:56. > :17:58.from his negotiations in Brussels with a deal that he said gave
:17:59. > :18:04.A deal he hoped would convince the British people.
:18:05. > :18:07.I believe Britain will be safer, stronger and better
:18:08. > :18:17.But it wasn't enough to convince some of his closest allies.
:18:18. > :18:21.His friend and confidante, Michael Gove.
:18:22. > :18:26.His old Oxford adversary, Boris Johnson.
:18:27. > :18:28.I would like to see a new relationship
:18:29. > :18:30.based more on trade, on
:18:31. > :18:39.But, as I say, with much less of the supranational element.
:18:40. > :18:42.From the 15th of April, the official campaign began.
:18:43. > :18:45.On the road for over nine weeks and five days, the two
:18:46. > :18:49.sides would be touring the country, knocking on doors, pleading for
:18:50. > :18:56.A third of the country was set to be still undecided.
:18:57. > :19:03.A week into the campaign came President Obama's intervention.
:19:04. > :19:05.Maybe at some point down the line there may be
:19:06. > :19:08.a UK-US trade agreement, but it won't happen any time soon,
:19:09. > :19:12.because our focus is negotiating with a big bloc, the
:19:13. > :19:15.European Union, to get a trade agreement down.
:19:16. > :19:19.I think the American president is coming up
:19:20. > :19:20.with the same rubbish that
:19:21. > :19:25.Basically the line is "Britain is not good enough".
:19:26. > :19:31.Brexit would be a step into the dark and remain was
:19:32. > :19:35.Claim, counterclaim, the divisions in Tory
:19:36. > :19:41.The debate centred on two conflicting visions:
:19:42. > :19:43.Of how Britain should be run and what Europe
:19:44. > :19:50.Up and down the country, from town hall to factory
:19:51. > :20:00.floor, they even took the battle to the river.
:20:01. > :20:02.Go back down the river, because you're up one
:20:03. > :20:08.The killing of Jo Cox brought three days
:20:09. > :20:16.The Britain that I love works with its
:20:17. > :20:21.A Wembley finale, the biggest debate of its kind on a
:20:22. > :20:39.decision that will define what kind of Britain we want to be.
:20:40. > :20:41.Events have been taking place across the world,
:20:42. > :20:44.to mark what would have been the 42nd birthday of
:20:45. > :20:46.the British Labour MP, Jo Cox, who was murdered last week.
:20:47. > :20:49.A minute's silence was held at Trafalgar Square in Central London,
:20:50. > :20:54.with vigils in New York, Brussels, Mumbai and in
:20:55. > :20:56.Jo Cox's constituency in the north of England.
:20:57. > :20:58.In London her husband Brendan Cox paid tribute to her,
:20:59. > :21:02.She was the best mum that any child she was a mother.
:21:03. > :21:08.And wish we do to have her back in our lives.
:21:09. > :21:14.Since Thursday, me and my children have spoken
:21:15. > :21:19.everyday about things we will miss and memories we will cherish.
:21:20. > :21:22.We try to remember not how cruelly she was
:21:23. > :21:25.taken from us, but how unbelievably lucky we were to have her in our
:21:26. > :21:38.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:21:39. > :21:40.One of Pakistan's well-known singers has been shot dead
:21:41. > :21:44.Amjad Sabri, who was famous for singing Sufi devotional music,
:21:45. > :21:46.known as Qawwali, was shot in his car at close
:21:47. > :21:49.The music associated with Sufism is considered heretical
:21:50. > :21:54.A German former nurse serving a life sentence for two
:21:55. > :21:59.of killing dozens more patients by injecting them with heart
:22:00. > :22:06.A court order to exhume 99 former patients of the man
:22:07. > :22:09.named only as Niels H found traces of heart medication
:22:10. > :22:15.The presumptive Republican Party nominee for the US presidency,
:22:16. > :22:17.Donald Trump, has launched a scathing attack on his
:22:18. > :22:21.Democratic Party rival, Hillary Clinton, saying she lacks
:22:22. > :22:24.the temperament and the judgment to be president.
:22:25. > :22:26.In a speech in New York, Mr Trump accused his rival
:22:27. > :22:29.of being a "world-class liar" who personally profited
:22:30. > :22:31.from her tenure at the State Department.
:22:32. > :22:38.There has been no immediate response from Mrs Clinton.
:22:39. > :22:41.Spare a thought for festival goers heading to Glastonbury
:22:42. > :22:44.in Somerset today, as they might look like they're having
:22:45. > :22:47.all the fun, but some have been stuck in traffic queues of as long
:22:48. > :22:59.Opening up what some call the best party
:23:00. > :23:04.This lot are committed to the Glastonbury cause.
:23:05. > :23:06.They've been queueing all night and they
:23:07. > :23:12.The music doesn't start for another two days.
:23:13. > :23:16.Around 150,000 people are expected here.
:23:17. > :23:18.The tickets, which cost over ?200 each,
:23:19. > :23:26.You need plenty of patience to get there, as these
:23:27. > :23:32.We've been here about an hour and a half to two hours.
:23:33. > :23:35.We've probably gone 300 metres in that time.
:23:36. > :23:41.If there's two things us British can do particularly well, it
:23:42. > :23:48.We're doing both pretty well right now.
:23:49. > :23:53.But it would not be Glastonbury without the
:23:54. > :24:03.I do own wellingtons, but I didn't bring them.
:24:04. > :24:05.For some, the journey on foot sounded more like
:24:06. > :24:19.With some more rain on the way, it might be another year like this.
:24:20. > :24:32.But don't they say mud is good for the skin?
:24:33. > :24:40.Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this. That is
:24:41. > :24:45.exactly what happened to one Australian woman who was woken up by
:24:46. > :24:48.a five metre-. It looks a longer, doesn't it? It was crawling across
:24:49. > :24:53.the wall into her spare bedroom and it is not the first time that this -
:24:54. > :24:55.has paid a visit. There's something about that on our website, I
:24:56. > :25:07.believe. You can look there. It is the final push of Company
:25:08. > :25:10.before Britain's historic vote on Thursday on EU membership. Political
:25:11. > :25:17.leaders have been making a last-ditch appeals to voters. On
:25:18. > :25:20.that ballot paper is a British jobs, British families, the finances of
:25:21. > :25:25.people in our country. The strength of our country. And that is why we
:25:26. > :25:29.must vote Remain. If you think the European Union is going at the wrong
:25:30. > :25:34.direction and is fundamentally different from what we signed up for
:25:35. > :25:40.in 1975, which it is, then I think you should vote Leave and take back
:25:41. > :25:43.control tomorrow. If you are still undecided and following this keenly
:25:44. > :25:48.from outside the UK, you can get the latest on the BBC's website, not
:25:49. > :25:52.only detailed analysis and facts checked, we also have a life page on
:25:53. > :25:55.this last day of the EU referendum campaign. Thank you for being with
:25:56. > :26:11.us. Goodbye. Good evening. Let us see what is
:26:12. > :26:17.happening over the next day or so. Some stormy weather is on the way,
:26:18. > :26:18.particularly across the South East. Politically quite right now, just a