welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: theresa may's forced to form a minority government after a bruising night in britain's general election. the prime minister's back in downing street but to stay there she'll have to broker a deal with northern ireland's democratic unionists in other news: president trump calls the sacked fbi director james comey a liar, and says he's willing to testify under oath. a new government and face the challenge of the imminent brexit —— the british prime minister, theresa may, is trying to construct a new government and face the challenge of the imminent brexit process having lost her majority in the house of commons. the conservatives emerged from thursday's election

as the largest party but with no parliamentary majority. they're hoping to rely on northern ireland's democratic unionists to stay in power. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports on a night and day of intense political drama. is this strong and stable, prime minister? she who dares doesn't always win. the most votes, the most seats but, under this stinging glare, no iron gates nor police protection can shield theresa may from the accusation she looks a political loser. the trappings of power, the visit to the palace, help from northern irish mps mean she can gather enough support to stay on. but having believed herself to be on the brink of a sizeable majority, going backwards seems like defeat. i have just been to see her majesty the queen and i will now

form a government. a government that can provide certainty and lead britain forward at this critical time for our country. not a single mention of the result. it is clear that only the conservative and unionist party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the house of commons. this will allow us to come together as a country and channel our energies towards a successful brexit deal that works for everyone in this country. still prime minister but damaged, diminished, a smallerfigure. young people and old people all came together yesterday, a huge turnout, an increase in the labour vote and they did it because they want to see things done differently and they want hope in their lives. because what was surprise at the start... bell tolls and what we're saying is the conservatives are the largest party.

note that they don't have an overall majority at this stage. ..gradually, seat after seat, was glorious shock for labour. loss after loss for the conservatives. no obvious pattern or geography to start with. cheering but a hung parliament. # we'll keep the red flag flying here...# with no overall winner becoming clear. what had seemed her unassailable lead at the startjust melted away. personal as well as political loss written all over her face. the tories and labour in scotland dragged the snp down from their high point. the bubble pricked even for alex salmond. cheering

other parties took heavy fire. the lib dems adding seats but losing their biggest household name, perhaps loved and loathed. nuttall, paul andrew, ukip. .. and, in reverse, another ukip leader took his leave. no party, though, can govern alone. meet the ten—strong democratic unionist party, northern irish mps who will prop theresa may up. the prime minister has spoken with me this morning and we will enter discussions with the conservatives to explore how it may be possible to bring stability to our nation. others, though, calling for her to go. we will work with others if it is at all possible to keep the tories out of government. but only late this afternoon did the prime minister acknowledge that anything had gone wrong. i had wanted to achieve a larger majority, but that was not the result that we secured and i'm sorry for all those candidates and hard—working party workers who weren't successful. she won more votes, more seats, she keeps this address,

but her gamble failed. the electorate can damn with faint praise. laura keunssberg, bbc news, downing street. in other news: president trump says he is 100% willing to testify under oath to give his side of the story over leaked conversations with james comey, the former fbi director he fired last month. mr trump said he rejected mr comey‘s assertion that he had urged him to drop an investigation into his presidential campaign's links with russia. laura bicker has more. this press conference was supposed to be about strengthening nato alliances, especially with a country like romania, who is prepared, they say, to pay their dues. but the only thing, the one thing, looming large over the trump administration is the testimony from the former fbi director, james comey. yesterday, he told the senate intelligence committee that he did not trust the president not to lie about their meeting. so much so that he kept memos, he kept notes of their meeting. he talked about a meeting

with the president where donald trump is alleged to have turned to him and said, could you see your way to letting the investigation into michael flynn, his former national security advisor, who had to be fired because of his contacts with russia, could he let that investigation go? well, from the podium, president trump says that account is not as he remembers it. and he says he's prepared to go under oath and talk to the special counsel, who is now looking into this whole russia investigation, is prepared to tell him his version of events. he did say under oath that you told him to let... ..you said you hoped the flynn investigation... i didn't say that. so, he lied about that? well, i didn't say that, and i will tell you i didn't say that. and did he ask you to pledge...

and there would be nothing wrong if i did say that, according to everybody that i read today, but i didn't say that. and did he ask for a pledge of loyalty from you ? no, he did not. so he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version? 100%. i didn't say under oath. i hardly know the man. i'm not going to say, i'm going to ask you to pledge allegiance. who would do that? think of it. i hardly know the man. this is rapidly becoming a case of "he says and he says", a case of "who do you believe?" do you believe the former fbi director, james comey, who talked under oath about a president trump who defamed him and who he said lied about their meetings? and now, when it comes to the president, it is an account he says is entirely untrue. and then there is the question of tapes. do any tapes of those meetings exist? that is the one thing that could clear all this up.

when it came to the mention of the tapes, reporters clamoured, and they asked, when will we see them? he said, all in due course. laura bicker in the rose garden of the white house. police investigating the deadly terror attack on london bridge have revealed that the three knifemen had tried and failed to hire a 7.5 ton lorry. the ringleader of the plot, who has been named as khuram butt, was forced to hire a smaller van after his payment for the truck was declined due to a lack of funds. police said the attackers had tied pink ceramic knives to their wrists and had petrol—bombs ready to throw. stay with us here on bbc news, still to come — meet the gardener: a new approach to weed control in new york's woodlands. more now on the election. seven weeks ago mrs may insisted she needed a strong electoral mandate to underpin the brexit negotiations. and in the early stages of the campaign there was no suggestion in surveys that the political gamble would not pay off. but the result when all the votes were counted was the disappearance overnight of mrs may's majority

and a hung parliament. that's despite an increase in the conservative share of the vote. our deputy political editor john pienaar takes a closer look at mrs may's gamble and how it failed. who expected to hear or tell this tale today? the story of a leader and her party that felt unstoppable, at times seemed lost. then ended up mocked by enemies, and seen by the rest as having gone from strong and stable to weak and wobbly. theresa may, top of her party, but no longer in charge. there had been a turning point. i thought it was awful. the campaign was going swimmingly well until we launched our own manifesto, and did the triple assault on our core vote — the elderly. mrs may never looked like stumbling at the start. it was all about her, britain's most trusted leader — most of all by older voters. we will deliver for britain.

but a new social care policy left thousands, including natural conservative supporters, fearing their family homes might go to pay care bills after they had gone. that forced a u—turn — a u—turn she unconvincingly tried to deny. nothing has changed. nothing has changed! we are offering a long—term solution for the sustainability of social care for the future. but no one really believed it. are you embarrassed by this u—turn, prime minister? tory poll ratings suffered. furious tories blamed her advisers, and theresa may's way of relying on them, fiona hill and nick timoney, who is said to have come up with the vote loser of a planned. will he last? through the campaign, tv and radio appearances were dominated by a handful of trusted administers. one in particular, who was sent

to debate when her boss said no. theresa may may not be here, but i hope to make a good fist of it. today, the focus is on tories who want more of a role, and a more powerful cabinet as a whole. life is not going to be easy in future. would a bit more cabinet discussion help? there have been a lot of complaints, a lot of feeling that things have been decided by a small group of people, ministers have not been consulted. i think the prime minister would be wise to pay attention to this feeling that ministers need to be included in all decisions. you know, any decision that affects their department, it is absurd they are not consulted. theresa may's credit with voters seemed to fade the longer the campaign went on. once, when she was defending tory spending plans. in the labour party manifesto, we know the figures don't add up. what is important...

what about your own figures? let the prime minister answer. two terrorist attacks made this an election like no other. mrs may claimed to be the leader to keep britain safe, but was challenged time and again about police cuts. austerity was costing them support. jeremy corbyn tapped into the feeling of anti—austerity in the country, and i picked that up on the doorstep. people were tiring of austerity and wanted something different. it is too late for theresa may to correct the failures of her campaign, but there is time to pay the price as she plans a parliamentary programme, knowing that anything that upsets mps risks a humiliating defeat. she had hoped to win freedom on brexit but the danger now is that her hands may be tied. the prime minister's big gamble failed. today, she has spoken of five

more years in office but when you are under this kind of pressure, time can fly quickly between one crisis and the next. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. labour gained 30 seats across britain forcing many ofjeremy corbyn‘s opponents in the party to admit they had underestimated him and his ability to enthuse younger voters. mr corbyn says it was an incredible result for his party. our correspondent vicki young looks at how and where those labour gains were made. oh, jeremy corbyn! it wasn't victory, but tojeremy corbyn and his most ardent fans it felt almost as sweet. many had written him off, instead he's delivered labour's largest increase in the share of the vote since the war. his team say he offered voters hope, a positive vision. they want jeremy's slogan when he says leader, straight talking honest politics, that's what they want, they want someone to come and say this is what i believe in, this is what i want to implement

and this is what i will do and they support that type of politics. it's what these huge enthusiastic crowds wanted, all over the country mr corbyn took his message. our manifesto offers something very, very different. he promised higher pay, more free childcare, scrapping tuition fees paid for by higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy and when the votes rolled in it seemed young voters were behind the labour surge. rosie claire duffield is duly elected member of parliament for the city. university city of canterbury, a seat which had been held by the conservatives for 100 years. now labour. some think their success stems from videos on social media, which had tens of millions of views and shares. i think a lot of young people as well don't necessarily really read all the newspapers that were kind of doing their smear campaign againstjeremy corbyn, so i think people underestimated actually how effective sharing stories and photographs was. i paid the university fees and for people going back to labour,

it is so refreshing to see someone who will stick to his word. what do you think about his image and the campaign he ran? i think he did well. i mean, he did turn up to the debates and theresa may didn't. i think people were quite interested in his antiestablishment rhetoric and how he's always sat on the backbenches and fighting for the small people, the little man, for 30 odd years. insiders at labour hq said this result was absolutely a victory forjeremy corbyn. they say he enthused voters, especially the young, by offering clear, popular policies. the question now is whether labour mps will finally accept his leadership. last year mr corbyn was challenged for the top job. today his former rival was eating humble pie. i was clearly wrong in feeling jeremy wouldn't be able to do this well and i think he has proved me and lots of people wrong and i take my hat off to him. i don't know whatjeremy‘s got but if we could bottle it and drink

it we would all be doing very well. others praised mr corbyn‘s performance but pointed out power is still some way off. we can win over former conservative voters, but we need to understand why, despite the fact they often identify with our values, they didn't vote for us this time. it's not a negative process, it's a positive process building on the leap forward we've had during this election. labour party candidate, 16,333 votes. tonight, the final result of the 2017 election, labour took kensington from the conservatives by just 20 votes. labour has nowjust lost three general elections in a row. we're just walking down the street to our home now. thank you ever so much everyone for coming. but the infighting of the past two years is been forgotten for now.

theresa may has been forced to form a minority government after losing her parliamentary majority in britain's general election. president trump has called the fired fbi directorjames comey a liar and said he's willing to testify under oath. us president donald trump has accused qatar of funding terrorism, warning the gulf state to stop it immediately. that message came just hours after his secretary of state, rex tillerson, urged saudi arabia and other countries in the region to ease the blockade against qatar, which he said was hindering the fight against islamic state and creating a humanitarian crisis. barbara plett—usher has the story. the dispute between america's arab allies got unexpected billing at the white house on friday. president trump had already tweeted support for the decision to isolate qatar by saudi arabia and others. he repeated that forcibly

from the podium, calling out doha as an historic supporter of terrorism. nations came together and spoke to me about confronting qatar over its behaviour. so we had a decision to make, do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? we have to stop the funding of terrorism. the unprecedented blockade of qatar has exploded a history of regional grievances into a full—blown crisis. only hours before trump spoke, his secretary of state called on doha's neighbours to ease the embargo. it's causing not only food shortages, he said, but hindering a united war against the islamic state group. his tone and approach, though, were strikingly different. we have called for calm and thoughtful dialogue with clear expectations and accountability among the parties in order to strengthen relationships.

we ask that there be no further escalation by the parties in the region. we call on qatar to be responsive to the concerns of its neighbours. in a nuanced message, tillerson also urged all parties to take action against extremists. few hands are clean when it comes to a history of terrorist financing in the gulf, but trump's embrace of saudi arabia on a recent trip to riyadh seems to have influenced his thinking and raised questions about the direction of any us mediation. barbara plett—usher, bbc news, washington. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the united nations peacekeeping mission in mali says that three of its troops have been killed, and eight wounded, in an attack in kidal, in the north of the country. the mission‘s camp came under heavy fire from mortars and rocket—propelled grenades. shortly afterwards peacekeepers outside the camp were attacked. a jihadist group linked to al qaeda said it was responsible. austria has introduced a law banning

full—face islamic veils in public. from october, anyone breaking it will face a fine of up to 160 dollars. the new legislation includes measures against distributing extremist islamist literature and obliges asylum—seekers to undergo a year—long integration course. brazil's top electoral court have thrown out a case which would have stripped michel temer of the presidency over alleged corruption during the 2014 election. the trial had been looking into allegations of illegal campaign donations. a park in america has recruited some new talent to help restore its forest. hurricane sandy tore down the trees in prospect park in brooklyn and left it with a weed problem. now they've found a chemical—free solution. caroline davies reports. this is a rather different side to brooklyn in new york.

prospect park is the area's last forest and it has some new visitors. max, cinnamon, swirland unicorn. these goats are helping to clear the weeds here without using herbicides. hurricane sandy came through and knocked down around 30 big trees. big gaps of light were opening and weeds flourished. so we wanted to do the removal of invasive weeds but we did not want to use chemicals. people in the community like it when we reduce the use of chemicals. once the weeds are eaten, new trees can be planted. these goats are not picky — they will even eat poison ivy. locals have welcomed their new neighbours. i love that there are goats here. it is awesome. i love goats and seeing more wildlife... well, i guess it is not really wild, but seeing more animals here is great. i think i remember them chomping plants.

yum, yum. and there is plenty more for goats to get through — saving this patch of green one weed at a time. general elections are clearly a serious business. a huge amount of effort goes into making sure every vote is counted correctly — or at least that's the theory. rob sissons reports from mansfield where a slip of the tongue led to the wrong person being declared the winner in thursday's uk election. joseph alan meale has duly been elected... that oscars moment. they read out the wrong result, but then again mansfield has always been labour, sir alan meale has been voted time and time again since 1987. not last night. i should have voted conservative! crikey! i'm a socialist at heart, it sticks in your craw to vote conservative. margaret, a retired nhs cleaner,

hadn't voted tory before either. it's better the devil we know and we should give theresa may a chance, she hasn't had a chance yet. lifelong labour supporter and i can't believe that mansfield has gone to conservative after all these years. i can't believe it, i can't. it's a miners' town so i'm surprised. last night's winner, ben bradley, is 27 and thinks he'll be the second youngest mp in parliament. he believes brexit won it. mansfield is changing, demographics are changing and locally people have been crying out for a change. defeated for labour, sir alan meale predicts the party will win the seat back. anybody who gets a job like that will be in for one term, i suspect we will have another very soon. in mansfield many people say it feels like a new political era. let's leave you with some of the enduring sights and sounds of the past 2a hours as the voters of britain refused to give theresa may the big

majority she sought and delivered a hung parliament, with far—reaching consequences for the months and years ahead. big ben sounds and what we're saying is the conservatives are the largest party. note they don't have an overall majority at this stage. unless the exit poll is incredibly wrong, the prime minister has failed to achieve her principal objective. the worst possible outcome would be a hung parliament. cheering politics has changed and politics isn't going back. you live by the sword and you die by the sword. i am standing down today as the leader of ukip with immediate effect. cheering reporter: are you stepping down, mrs may? oh, jeremy corbyn! i will now form a government,

a government that can provide certainty and lead britain forward at this critical time for our country. we will enter discussions with the conservatives. now let's get to work. hello there. it's felt a little more like autumn for some this week and although high pressure will build into next week and we'll hopefully see more of these skylines, this was sent in late in the day on friday, before that we will have yet more rain, strong and blustery winds with some sunshine, warm sunshine dispersed, so not a great weekend for heading to the mountains or a small boat. after the rain there will also be more showers following on. this is the area of cloud, the area of low pressure that will bring that disturbed weather through the weekend.

not a washout for all but certainly quite a bit of rain to come. the north—east of scotland may start quite chilly with a bit of fog around, the south and east brightening up quite quickly but with the south—westerly wind pushing that rain into the welsh mountains and cumbrian fells, we could see the wettest weather here, 20 to a0 millimetres. once it clears away, northern ireland will have a warmer and brighter afternoon, warmer and brighterfor the northern isles and northern scotland than yesterday, perhaps 20 here and even with the rain, not especially cold, quite grey with lots of murky low cloud and hill fog. whilst we come out of that cloud and back into the sunshine in central and eastern areas and we could see temperatures at 2a or 25 degrees, so some very warm and muggy airaround. touch and go for the cricket at edgbaston, england—australia, just because you're close to that rain band, hopefully we will get some play and bad light won't spoil the affair. through the evening that rain will advance further eastwards so eventually we will see patchy

rain even in southern and eastern areas and then the wind will push the showers into the north and west of scotland, so again not a cold night but a particularly warm one stuck under that weather front in central and eastern england and here it is on sunday. although the main rain is clearing on sunday with low pressure sat to the north—west, it does means it won't be a particularly settled day, some tightly packed isobars indicating some rather strong winds at times, gusting winds with those showers, northern ireland, scotland, north—western parts of england and wales could be heavy with hail and thunder. the cloud is meandering south and east so after a bright start some patchy rain before the rain returns in the evening and not as warm as a result across the south and east, fresher air following on behind that weather front. into that fresher air on monday, still a blustery breeze with showers around, especially in the north, not so much in the south but nevertheless not ruling out the risk. gradually the azores high will be just building northwards, pushing more warmth and sunshine north, keeping these weather fronts at bay and keeping them to the north and west.

as ever, more detail on the website. this is bbc news. the headlines: the british prime minister, theresa may, is forming a new minority government a day after losing her majority in a snap election. her party will work with northern ireland's democratic unionists who won ten seats. she's said she'll keep her most senior ministers. mrs may said crucial talks on britain leaving the european union will begin as planned in ten days‘ time but she'll enter brexit negotiations in a much weaker position. european council president donald tusk says time is running out and there's a real risk of a "no deal" outcome. president trump has said he's100% willing to testify under oath about his talks with the sacked former fbi director, james comey. mr trump rejected the allegation that he had urged mr comey to drop an investigation into his presidential campaign's links with russia. now on bbc news, great explorations.

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