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a couple from staffordshire missing after the flooding in spain have been found dead. more than 200 people have now lost their lives. quincy— now lost their lives. jones is a quincy now lost their lives. jones is a wonderful person and quinchones is a wonderful person and such_ quinchones is a wonderful person and such a — quinchones is a wonderful person and such a family person. qunichones — the celebrated music producer who worked with michaeljackson and frank sinatra — has died at the age of 91. and coming up on bbc news: a big week for ruben amorim, the sporting lisbon coach set to take over at manchester united, but first unfinished business, starting with manchester city in the champions league. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. as campaigning for the us presidential election
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enters its final day, donald trump and kamala harris are attempting to drive home their messages in the key swing states which will decide the result. tomorrow's election is expected to be one of the closest in american history. jon is live in washington for us at the start of this momentous week. jon. as america wakes up this morning, the two candidates are in a final sprint across the country. if the polls are right, it's too close to call. in their final messages to voters, kamala harris has vowed to do everything in her power to "end the war in gaza". donald trump has made unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the must—win state of pennsylvania. with the latest, here's our correspondentjessica parker. the closing stages of this presidential race, as the two people aiming to take charge of the world's largest economy seek momentum and votes. donald trump used rallies to hammer home his message.
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i will end inflation. i will stop the invasion of massive numbers of criminals coming into our country. thank you very much, kamala and joe. but his campaign had to clarify remarks about bullet proof glass, saying they weren't to do with harming the media. i have this piece of glass here, but all we have really over here is the fake news, right? and to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. and i don't mind that so much because... kamala harris has claimed her opponent is increasingly unstable. but at this rally, she avoided saying donald trump's name. america is ready for a fresh start. ready for a new way forward
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where we see our fellow american, not as an enemy, but as a neighbour. we thank you for how you have lifted her up. both candidates have been focusing their energies on seven key swing states which could decide this election. in michigan, harris supporters queued up, eager to usher their candidate into power. i think people are changing their mindsets, which is really good. a lot of trump supporters are now not necessarily becoming democrats, but understanding that she is the one who's going to help us become a better economy and a better place in general. while in georgia, trump backers were beating the drum for his return to the white house. i mean, our economy was better when trump was in office. everything was better. but about the open borders — biggest mistake ever. more than 7a million americans have
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already made use of early voting ahead of tuesday, election day. this presidential race, that's watched for its impact all over the world, is now approaching its end game. jessica parker, bbc news in washington, dc. let's get the latest from two of those all—important swing states. in a moment, we'll hear from our senior north america correspondentjohn sudworth who's in georgia. but first, let's head to north carolina and our correspondent helena humphrey. helena, donald trump won there by about 7a,000 votes at the last election. how is it looking this time? to be very honest it is a toss—up here in north carolina and keep in mind that the last time it actually flipped blue was in 2008 four barack 0bama. president biden not managing to capture it, losing it by a single
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percentage point. so really it is the fight to flip it for the harris campaign, a significant ground game here in north carolina. some of the key groups to be watching out for in terms of voting, suburban women, whether come out in the numbers that she needs on reproductive rights issues for example. another key group are african—american voters and i'm here on a college campus of and i'm here on a college campus of an historic black college and will be for example be seeing young educated, energised voters going for the democrats but we also know that trump has been coveting for example young black male voters here in this state. and then the impact of herrick and helen, we saw terrible devastation in this state and will that impact how the voters feel about the incumbent biden administration and in turn the potential for administration and in turn the potentialfor president administration and in turn the potential for president harris? and we can speak with our senior north america correspondent john sudworth who's in georgia —
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how are the candidates faring there? well georgia matters because it is one of the few states where we generally do not know how opinion is going to fall. you may remember donald trump and his infamous phone call after the last election in which he tried to pressure officials here to find the 11,000 votes for him by which it lost and it could well come down to those kind of margins again. the road to the white house running right through the state and it could well be decided by a few thousand votes or so again. i saw kamala harris speaking here on saturday, hammering her message on reproductive rights. george is one of the states was some of the toughest restrictions on abortion after donald trump rolled back on that constitutional entitlement with the supreme court appointment. and i saw donald trump last night hitting some of the issues that the poll suggest appeal more or slightly more
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to the male voters, tough messages on the economy and on immigration. neither candidate is particularly popular, both approval ratings above 50% so in the end it is not a question of how the undecided will vote but who turns out to vote and thatis vote but who turns out to vote and that is why we've seen both of them in the state trying to scoop up every single spare voter that they can. anna foster is with me now. here at the white house. anna, whoever wins, this is historic. it is and for the united states and for wherever in the world you're watching this election we have got some potential first for the watching this election we have got some potentialfirst for the pet kamala harris when she would become the first female president of the us, if donald trump wins again he will become the first convicted felon to run this country. so people are looking at what is going to happen here and also looking at the impact around the world is well on things like the war in gaza and ukraine. and there a real difference
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in tone and feeling here i remember in tone and feeling here i remember in 2016 covering the election here in 2016 covering the election here in the first time that donald trump stood for office. people were nervous about what it might mean for this country, the way that he is so unconventional, something his supporters love and pick up on but something that his opponents really fear about what it is done to the discourse of us politics for the people here live through the 6th of january when the mob stormed the capital just january when the mob stormed the capitaljust over january when the mob stormed the capital just over there january when the mob stormed the capitaljust over there and in fact down by the white house yesterday you could see some people starting to board up their shops and businesses. i watched stacks of crowd control barriers being delivered in the streets outside and there is an extra sense of nervousness this time notjust about who wins but how the results will be received and whether it will be challenged and the impact it will have on this country.— challenged and the impact it will have on this country. thank you very much. we're now only one day away from this year's us presidential election — and you can keep up to date with all of our coverage. bbc one, iplayer and the bbc news live page will have all the results as they come
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in tomorrow night. and for more analysis, you can head to bbc sounds to listen to americast. that is all from your for now. the prime minister has announced an additional £75 million to tackle people—smuggling gangs. the money will fund surveillance equipment and specialist investigators. speaking at the interpol general assembly in glasgow, sir keir starmer called for international co—operation to deal with people smuggling across the channel. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. bagpipes play. gathered in glasgow, law enforcement officials from nearly 200 nations. their speciality is cooperation against transnational crime. that's why the prime minister was here. he wants the problem of irregular immigration to be viewed as a global security threat. people—smuggling needs a global response, and on a scale way
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beyond where we are now. we need to unlock the power of that cooperation across borders, agencies, continents, even. the small boats issue, he said, needs to be seen as part of a much, much bigger problem. it exploits the cracks between our institutions. it pits nations against each other, profits from our inability at a political level to come together. that's part of the business model. so i will work with anyone serious who can offer solutions on this. so you're looking out of here at these? yeah. you're all being imaged. sir keir is promising new surveillance drones and new investigators. he replaced the rwanda deportation scheme with a new border security command and is adding £75 million to its budget.
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his critics say it won't work. unless we have a credible deterrent on the table, it's not going to stop people wanting to come to this country and constituents are really fed up. it was the most important issue that came up on the doorstep for my electorate in broxbourne, and probably across the country. the government, though, believes the answer lies across the channel seeking cooperation to shut down the smuggling routes, just as terrorism is tackled. damian grammaticas, bbc news. there are fears there could be up to quarter of a million more flats and apartments with dangerous flammable cladding than previously thought — seven years after the grenfell tower fire exposed the issue. a report from the national audit office says there are potentially more than 7000 tower blocks still unidentified, which will be subject to the government's schemes to fix them. the new conservative leader kemi badenoch has started to make the first appointments to her top team, ahead of herfirst shadow cabinet meeting tomorrow. it follows her election
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on saturday as party leader. she has so far named dame rebecca harris as her chief whip, and laura trott as shadow education secretary. the national farmers union is questioning government figures about the number of farms that will be affected by planned changes to inheritance tax. the chancellor rachel reeves says that only a very small number of agricultural properties will be impacted by her budget announcement. nfu leaders met with ministers this morning. we will continue to try and work with government to get a resolution, but something has to change. you know, i've never seen the weight of support, the strength of feeling and anger that there is in this industry today. many of them want to be militant, we are not encouraging that in any way, shape or form. but government need to understand that there is a real, real strength of feeling behind what this change means for the future of family farming in this country. a british couple who went missing when spain was hit by flash flooding have been found dead in their car.
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more than 200 people have lost their lives in spain's worst floods in generations. our correspondent bethany bell has this latest report. the clean—up operation goes on and on. furniture, mattresses and people's personal belongings ruined in the floodwaters. and the disaster has claimed so many lives. among the dead are this british couple — don turner, who is 78, and his wife terri, who was 7a. they moved to spain ten years ago. they went missing on tuesday when the floods hit. on saturday, their bodies were found in their car. we still don't know exactly what happened to them. you know, the only thing we've got from this is that they were together. but then, erm, it's not the way you want your parents to go. almost a week after the flooding,
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streets and buildings are still clogged with mud. the government has deployed thousands of soldiers, emergency workers and police in what it calls the biggest peacetime deployment in spain's recent history. but many here say it's simply not enough, so they're out in force, trying to lend a hand. more and more volunteers are arriving to help with the clean—up. over the past few days, i've seen thousands of people who've told me they felt compelled to come here, and they're angry with the authorities. it's dirty and difficult work. it seems like an apocalypse, really. like, for a first—world country to be like this. but yeah, just disappointed, really, in how everything is being organised.
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it destroys you, you know, because, you know, the people there don't have the same resources as you. and they are sleeping on wet floors, you know? and it breaks you. the search for the missing continues. it's still not clear how many are unaccounted for. and there are fears the death toll will rise. bethany bell, bbc news, valencia. i'm in torre, a residential area of valencia. and that pile of rubbish you can see behind me as the contents of people's homes. and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. if you look closely at it, you see old mattresses, uc chairs. i saw a rosary wrapped around the leg of a chair. and the anger here is
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palpable. so many people are telling me that the authorities have let them down. —— you see chairs. we have seen the authorities outworking of military vehicles, helicopters flying overhead, but so many people say they have to come here to help the survivors of this disaster. and of course, so many people are worried about the missing and fears that they may not be alive any more. bethany, thank you. the time is 13.17. our top story this afternoon: donald trump and kamala harris have ramped up their campaigning in us swing states, with just a day to go until the presidential election. and the acclaimed record producer quinchones — who worked with some of america's greatest musicians — has died at the age of 91. coming up on bbc news: we'll hear from the neurodiversity coach, and the young rugby players he's working with, on how they can get the best out of them, on and off the pitch.
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the home secretary, yvette cooper will look at changing the law to recognise younger people as victims of domestic abuse in response to the case of holly newton, who was killed by her ex—boyfriend at the age of 15. last week, holly's killer, logan macphail, was jailed for at least 17 years for her murder. alison freeman reports. logan macphail and holly newton in what herfamily called logan macphail and holly newton in what her family called happier times. they had no idea that he would go on to be jailed for her murder. 0n would go on to be jailed for her murder. on friday, he was sentenced to 17 years for killing holly and injuring a boy who try to help her. on bbc breakfast this 0n bbc breakfast this morning, holly's mum gave her reaction to the sentence for the first time.—
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sentence for the first time. nothing was ever going _ sentence for the first time. nothing was ever going to — sentence for the first time. nothing was ever going to be _ sentence for the first time. nothing was ever going to be enough, to . sentence for the first time. nothing was ever going to be enough, to be j was ever going to be enough, to be honest. i think you always hope for the worst, but what is the worst? you just want the maximum but you have to kind of except that it is what holly, macphail secretly followed herfor holly, macphail secretly followed her for about an hour, black, hiding his face. when he finally spoke to her, macphail lured her into an alleyway where he stabbed her to death. thejudge said that he had killed holly because he was jealous and resentful, that he had killed holly because he wasjealous and resentful, and realised that she didn't want to resume their relationship. holly's murder was classed as knife crime. her parents say she should be seen as a discussion of domestic abuse but because she was under 16 and still a child she can't be —— as a victim of domestic abuse. they want the law to change.— the law to change. children are caettin the law to change. children are getting into — the law to change. children are getting into relationships - the law to change. children are i getting into relationships younger than what people think and they need to know that they are protected if something like this is happening. and at the minute, because of the age restriction they can't go anywhere and get the advice and help
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that's needed. the anywhere and get the advice and help that's needed-— that's needed. the home secretary yvette couper _ that's needed. the home secretary yvette cooper said _ that's needed. the home secretary yvette cooper said this _ that's needed. the home secretary yvette cooper said this morning - that's needed. the home secretaryl yvette cooper said this morning that this was an issue that government would specifically look at and take seriously so that violence in teenage relationships like holly�*s is recorded in the right way. she also said a number of measures were being introduced to try and halve violence against women and girls over the next ten years and it wouldn't just over the next ten years and it wouldn'tjust include support for victims. it wouldn't 'ust include support for victims. . , wouldn't 'ust include support for victims. ., , ., ., victims. it means new action to tackle perpetrators _ victims. it means new action to tackle perpetrators and - victims. it means new action to tackle perpetrators and also . victims. it means new action to tackle perpetrators and also it | tackle perpetrators and also it means new prevention work, including in schools to tackle attitudes towards violence in teenage relationships which are deeply disturbing and troubling, and it is something the education secretary bridget phillipson has particularly highlighted. so we go after the attitudes among young people, not just wait until you see domestic abuse and violence much later on. holly's family say they now plan to educate young women and girls so
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they are able to spot the red flags a lot quicker than holly did. alison freeman, bbc news. a full documentary about the murder of holly newton called stabbed after school is on bbc iplayer now. a jury at the old bailey has been told that an nhs mental health trust failed in its duty to protect a young woman who took her own life nearly a decade ago. the north east london nhs foundation trust is charged with corporate manslaughter and with breaching health and safety regulations. 0ur social affairs editor alison holt is outside court. alison, what was heard this morning? it was opening arguments this morning in a case which is likely to be watched very closely because it's only the second time an nhs trust has 1441 00:
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