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At about 2 am, the game has been played.
Results are known a few hours later: the UK has voted to leave the EU by 51.9% to 48.1% (53.4% to 46.6% in England).
The main rejectionist groups are working class people and my impression is that their vote is mainly explained by their feeling that Europe focuses on things like the Bolkestein Directive or the TTIP, while it should give priority improving the protection of vulnerable individuals such as those who manage on odd jobs or earn paltry wages.
Update 4/10/2016
Yesterday, Chancellor Philip Hammond said: "One of the key messages of the referendum campaign was that large parts of our country feel left behind. They see the country getting richer, but don't feel part of that success" (i, 4/10/2016, p. 4).
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Muslim guardians
Hardliners
Are the most
Hypocritical
Ever seen
They enforce
Islamic laws
Wanting
To turn the world green
Yet Muslims killing Muslims
Remains unseen
The condition of an
Underprivileged
Muslim Woman
The Muslim Man demean
Triple talaq
A morbidly
Woman destroying
Smokescreen
If you want to remarry
Your divorced wife
Well she has to marry
Someone perhaps the Mullah
Consummate the marriage
Divorce the Mullah
Than will be yours
If you know what I mean
Its time they changed all this
And came out clean
The Shias do not have
Triple Talaq to women demean
Today Islam is on the crossroads
Hate killing bombing maiming
The usual carnage a blood spilling scene
The enemies of Islam
Within and in between
Politically activated
Killing machine
Nothing can be more obscene
Silence all around
Allah Ho Akbar
Life goes on as routine
Little children
Turned killers in their teen
Gunmen kill 29 villagers in Iraq
Gunmen in Iraq wearing military uniforms have killed 29 people in a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad, security officials said.
A police spokesman said a large group of gunmen surrounded Duwailiya village and killed men, women and children.
It comes a day after more than 80 people were killed in a lorry bomb attack in the northern town of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, the political bloc allied to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has said it has ended its boycott of parliament.
The 30 legislators pulled out after an important Shia shrine in Samarra was bombed for a second time last month.
The bloc's head, Nassar Rubaie, said they were returning as their demands for the rebuilding of the shrine had been accepted.
The Sadrists will not re-enter the Iraqi government.
But the presence of their members of parliament could speed up the process of passing important laws, says the BBC's Mike Sergenat in Baghdad.
And the ongoing boycott of parliament by two main Sunni groups may still obstruct work on the legislation - demanded by the United States Congress.
Kirkuk funerals
An Iraqi police spokesman, Col Raghib Rawi, blamed the Diyala killings on al-Qaeda militants who have been fighting US and Iraqi forces in the province.
Col Rawi said the victims were members of a Shia tribe.
In Baghdad, at least 10 people, including four soldiers, were killed in a suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi army convoy passing through Zayouna district.
Another car bomb exploded near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad, killing four people.
The attacks come as funerals are being held for victims of a massive lorry bombing in Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
At least 85 people were killed and more than 180 wounded.
Nearly 30,000 extra US troops have been sent to Iraq in an effort to provide security for Baghdad and surrounding areas, including Baquba, the main town in Diyala province.
US and Iraqi officials say insurgents are fleeing the security drive and launching attacks further north in the country
courtesy BBCNews
Two grannies having a chat on the street in Kulaba slum right in the heart of posh South Mumbai. There was a nice relaxed feel on the evening we visited, and about 10 meteres away a wedding feast was being prepared in cooking pots. This photo was taken during George's walkabout with sociologist Nandini Sardesai, broadcast Thurs April 30th. Nandini's flat overlooks this slum, where her maid lives, and this was he first time she had visited it
I was just checking the news before turning out the light and I heard that Osama bin Laden is dead. American forces killed him in a mansion near the capital of Pakistan. It's incredible. Ten years. 9/11 feels like it was just a couple of years ago: I was doing jury duty in London and my mother, who had been visiting me, left my flat early that morning to fly back to New York. I got out of court early to find the tvs in the juror waiting room showing the strikes on the World Trade Center. I became hugely upset, but when I tried to explain what had just happened to a couple of my fellow jurors they just didn't understand why it was a big deal. I was terrified for our family friend Henry who worked high in the WTC, terrified because I didn't know where my mother was or if she was safe, and also terrified because I knew that this atrocity was going to lead to even more Bad Things.
By the time I got home it was reported that the towers had fallen and then I spoke to Sheila who was having the worst day of her life waiting to hear if her son Henry had got out of the World Trade Center before it fell. I spent my day listening to Radio 4, trying not to call Sheila (so as not to tie up her phone) and trying to calm down by making a cous cous sauce with the ingredients my mum had bought me before she left, wondering if her plane had taken off, if she'd be hijacked too, if I'd ever see her again. That day none of us knew how many jets had been hijacked or where they were or where the next strike would be. I was really scared about my mother until she showed up at my flat with all her luggage. She had been very lucky, and her flight had not taken off yet when the jets hit the WTC. So instead of being in limbo (if her flight had left earlier she might have been in for a five day stay in Greenland or Newfoundland as flights in progress were re-routed to remote airports where the passengers had to stay until airspace reopened) she was at home with me, and I was so relieved. And even more relieved when I heard that Henry had made it out of his office high in the WTC just in the nick of time and had managed to walk out of Manhattan. And my mother and I ate cous cous together that night. I will never forget that day - lifelong memories are supposed to be a good thing, but the trauma of that day is just not something I want to remember so well.
And now here it is, ten years later, I'm living in NY once more, Osama bin Laden is dead, and people are gathered at Ground Zero celebrating and singing.
I'm glued to the news. I'm not sure I'll get to sleep anytime soon.
In case you are wondering, the next day the jurors who had blown me off when I tried to explain what I'd just seen on the news apologised and asked if all my friends and family in the US were ok.
:: Later :: I'm really trying to get to sleep now. I'm so tired, but still wired from the news. I just discovered that I can stream Radio 4 on my iTunes, so I've got it running and I'll try to close my eyes. Listening to James Naughtie on Today really takes me back.
:: Even Later :: Still can't sleep. I'm now trying the NPR Program stream on iTunes... Oh well, at least I'm learning how to use my computer more?
The gallery (or control room) during the first live broadcast of the BBC One O'clock News, the first bulletin from the new home of BBC News in Studio E, B1, BBC New Broadcasting House, London, on 18 March 2013.
Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
Un-edited video of a snippet of BBC One O'clock News. 'Got a picture on the telly' !! Thank you BBC, Sophie Raworth and Chris Fawkes.
Olympics 2012
The Olympic Torch Relay arrives at Carlisle Cumbria. More photos from this set here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/sets/72157630232651060/
Huw Edwards during a pilot for the first broadcasts of BBC News from its new home in Studio E, BBC New Broadcasting House, London. Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
Kathy Clugston reading the first BBC Radio 4 news summary from BBC New Broadcasting House at 1100 on 6 December 2012. Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud Al Thani, governor of Qatar Central Bank, which joint-owns the tower, said: "The Shard is the newest London landmark and a beacon of the city of London's resilience and expansion, even during tough economic times.
"The lightshow will mark a key moment for the Shard, and one people around the world can enjoy."
The laser show will culminate in the illumination of the Shard itself, with the ceremony streamed on the internet.
Architect Renzo Piano said: "Up until now the building was ours. Now the building is yours.
"This building is not going to be a symbol of power."
The Shard is due to be inaugurated later with a light show visible across London amid anger over the "exorbitant" price of visiting its viewing platform.
Europe's highest building's external completion is to be marked with a laser show beginning at 22:15 BST.
Beams will be fired from its summit to 15 London skyscrapers and landmarks such as the Gherkin and Canary Wharf.
But there was dismay as it was revealed it will cost nearly £90 for a family of four to visit the viewing platform.
Tickets to the platform - which opens in February - will cost £24.95 for an adult and £18.95 for a child.
By comparison, an adult ticket to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is currently priced at 14 euros - just over £11.
"I don't think many local people will be going up to the viewing platform at that price."
He continued: "We have this massive pyramid slapped down here as a monument to the munificence of the Emirate of Qatar.
"Yet the price is yet another of the many examples of how the Shard is clearly at odds with the community in which it's defiantly planted itself."
But the PR firm representing the project insisted it was competitively priced compared to other major London attractions.
A spokesman also pointed out that the "visitor experience" would include such attractions as "kaleidoscopic lifts".
During the ceremony on Thursday the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform classical music including Aaron Copland's Fanfare For The Common Man.
The 310m (1,016ft) tall structure will be inaugurated by the prime minister of Qatar, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani, and Prince Andrew.
(BBCNews)
Reporter Lucy Hockings presenting live during the first episode of the BBC World News programme GMT on the first floor of New Broadcasting House, London, 14/01/2013. The BBC Newsroom is in the background.
Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
The gas and electricity outage in Caddington continues. Some homes in the village have gas, some has electricity, some have both, some have neither. A real mixed bag. Our gas is still out but at least we have electricity. An eerie silence decended on the village last night with further power cuts. The emergency rest centres have been open 24 hours a day for the last few days and have done a great job.
Meanwhile, the snowy weather continues to hamper the army of men busy working away down numerous holes scattered around the village
More photos here
G-TAKE Aerospatiale AS355 F1 Ecureuil 2 Arena Aviation/BBC News Tour de France Stage 1 Harewood 5 July 2014
The output-launching transmission from Studio C, New Broadcasting House, London - "World Business Report” presented by Tanya Beckett. Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
These men are ironing out the embroidere seams before they are sewn on to clothes for export around the world. This is a clothes factory started by a tailor who came to Dharavi slum years ago with just a Singer sewing machine, and now employs 600 people. He is in some senses a 'real' slumdog millionaire. He told George he hasn't laid off any workers yet even though his business is down by 40% due to the global economic downturn.
The motifs on the frosted glass on the second floor are from the late 1990s flags branding of BBC News.
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The gas and electricity outage in Caddington continues. Some homes in the village have gas, some has electricity, some have both, some have neither. A real mixed bag. Our gas is still out but at least we have electricity. An eerie silence decended on the village last night with further power cuts. The emergency rest centres have been open 24 hours a day for the last few days and have done a great job.
Meanwhile, the snowy weather continues to hamper the army of men busy working away down numerous holes scattered around the village
More photos here
On 28 November 2001, Her Majesty the Queen visited BBC Elstree to meet the Eastenders cast on set.
Pictured left to right are Wendy Richards, Barbara Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II and Mal Young.
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Details of the BBC's coverage of the Diamond Jubilee can be found here, including links to programmes on BBC iPlayer.
A special list of BBC News Correspondents tweeting from events marking the Jubilee is available here.
General views of the radio studio during the first broadcast of the BBC Radio 4 programme P.M. in its new home in New Broadcasting House, London.
Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News.
Alexander Witt is a great filmmaker from Chile, after his work in the Second Unit in "Casino Royal" (2006) the man is back in action. Alexander filmografy is huge as SUD; "The Jewel of the Nile" (1985), "The Hunt for the Red October" (1990), "Speed" (1994), "Expedient X" (1998), "Gladiator" (2001), "Hannibal" (2001), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), "The Bourne Identity" (2002), "American Gangster" (2007)... and many more...always in big pictures and great directors as Ridley Scott and now with Sam Mendes...