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global expert he's to work for a wide range of companies. >> this is dnt on bbc world news. the last day of campaigning in the british general election. early morning starts and all night campaigning and leaders go the extra mile to get every last vote. >> he nearly get away. striking back against cuts, greece grinds to a halt as deperm any considers whether to consider to back the bail out. emergency grews race to cap l oil slick in the gulf before more of a slick.
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>> out and about in his early hours. what used to be a two-horse race has been transform bid a strong sharing by the legal democrat carrier. first, this report >> he has been up all note. still many undecided voters out this. he wants to real them in. i've had conferences with voters that are literally swing
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vetters. the conservative party has its sleeves rolled up, it's working hard and wants to serve our country. his rival still believes he can win over voters too. late last night, he was visiting a steel mill with his wife. let us make sure by evicting a labor government on thursday. if he slept, it wasn't for long. 6:00 this morning, the browns were out again.
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people are saying, yes, we roik the hope. >> tomorrow, time to win vote also be over. only when they are countied will the time picture of this most unpredictable election be amused. jo what are the opinion poles telling us. that's a composite of several of the latest polls. option conservatives are set to gain 35%, labor will take 29% and lib rat democrats 26% and other parties 10%. >> our political correspond ant is live
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>> that was a real sense of energy even at this very last stage. it is. this is a lot of people out there who are undecided about who they are going to vote for. one polling company found that they thought 38% of the people were still undecided. that's why all the leaders are going out using every mount of every day now. they only have one left, to make sure they can chation as many votes as possible. it really is that close.
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it rather assume, that it is one con stituen si. when you could have is a party come first in the share of the votes. what matters is how many seats they stack up. that is why in this election, the system has come under fire because some think it may throw up an inconsistent stan si like that one party has a clear majority, there could be a lot of hot political debate about the system and whether it's a fair one to have future elections in this kind of way. thank you very much. we'll have our more on the depenl election on this addition in a few moments.
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we'll talk to the vet ral political commentator. >> now it's over to lucy. >> george, thank you. greek police have fired teargas as demonstrators tried storm parliament. these are live pictures from downtown athens. many of those are public sector workers. greece can receive an international bail out >> the german parliament has more to talk about.
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more charges for the citizen in the tally band. court documents show this as trying to miss and getting training in pakistan. >> he made his home in connecticut. he came from pakistan and made his home here last year. >> they had little picnics in the backyard. the wife looked happy. >> the suspect returned to connecticut in february after spending five months in pakistan. he's believed to have paid cash for the path finder that was found in time square on
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saturday. after the arrest, he admitted he had tried detonate a bomb and that he recently received bomb making training in pakistan in a region identified with the taliban. was this an ibter national plot emritz airlines failed to spot his name. authorities deny he was close to escaping. jo they had the authority if the flight had take ebb off to order to flight to turn around and come back.
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unfounded groomers mr. cane had already lost the top job following the collapse of two of his firm's hedge funds. serena williams has made a winning return to the tennis court. far more straight forward. >> back to you, george. >> more now on our top story. the final day of campaigning on the british general election, i'm joined here in the studio. we had a reporterlier showing the-o leader campaigning.
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have you ever seen anything like it here in britan? >> i don't think i have. campaigning through the night is more symbolic than anything else. you don't inference all of that. it is a strong finish. the prime minister, depord an brown played out his voice. i think it was monday night and yesterday, he made another speech. he suddenly seems to be getting that clear. you say it is that last minute campaigning. we heard that something like one in throw voters may be undecided
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that doesn't happen anymore. >> we are talking about polls here. here in britain, we find that very strange. jo if you have a winner takes all system, you tend to get more of an overall majority. i think it is quite a shock to us. we have only once in our resent years had a party. that's now 36 years ago. because we believe in winner takes all, winner does tend to
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take all. making up its mind when it does take up its mind, it makes it up definitively and with desiciveness. this is gmt. coming up. more live pictures coming to you right now. >> the threat of tensions that is been growing following applicant's anti-government up rising. we have the report. after running away from
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violence. two weeks, the village was attacked by an angry mob five people killed and most of the homes destroyed. jo there are thousands of villagers just like this one where people live side by side. their main concern is if it is to help them, who is going to protect them. >> authorities deny it was an ethnic clash and say they try to stop them by the vy owe
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lense. dozens of residents are claiming small plots of land. they wanted and they deny any involvement. the incident sent a message that there's a risk of ethnic violence. the government has moved ahead. >> the may headlines. campaigning in britains tightest general election for years enters the final day. financial markets worry that there could be no cloor winner. the man accused of the failed
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new york bomb attack, officials are investigating how he was able to board a plane at jfk before his arrest. >> i want to take to you the greek capitol of athens where we with see a live picture of the protests. plenty of private sector workers as well protecting against those measures in which the government has been forced to adopt. the vote is actually tomorrow. these workers are saying that they are taking i hit. they blame the banks for the problem they say >> something like 1500 police
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deployed. we can see that smoke. i can't tell from here. certainlyly, there have been plenty of clashes. these haven't been necesarily peaceful protests. there's a lot of anger. some of that white smoke and tier gas have been used. these protests keep in. we'll try to get more of this as we go through the program. how can the thousands of gallons of crude oil flowing into the gulf of mexico be stopped. as the slick edges towards the coast of louisiana, they are
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constructing a giant ire funnel lowered to the sea floor. depths of 5,000 below sea level. explaining how this will work. we need you to use your imagineation you can probably see that oil coming out there. as you can see, the pools of oil here. >> what they are using, we are at the deep depth here.
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that means this it brings time to relieve the pressure. that will take a few moments. technology looks simple. bare in mind we are dealing with something that's not just in this area or in the north sea. we are dealing with something that's a mile down jo we have to use robots. they are working in the dark it makes the whole thing a problem. >> we need to take you over to greece to the capitol city of athens thousand. those protests, tens of thousands of public sector
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jo just from the live pictures, i can see a couple of those cars there that are perhaps even damaged by the protesters. >> what has happened is that the people here are try og storm the parliament. they are trying to get inside if they can do that, they think they may be able to win. this is one of the most violent
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