Nobel peace prize winner, aung san suu kyi, defends her country, myanmar, against charges of genocide. A teenager is found guilty of the murder of 14 year old jaden moodie, killed in a turf war between rival drugs gangs. And Greta Thunberg tells a Climate Conference World Leaders must end their excuses to avoid action on global warming. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news, a gabrieljesus hat trick ensures Manchester City remain unbeaten to qualify for the last 16 of the champions league. Good evening. On the last day of campaigning before tomorrows general election, Party Leaders have been travelling from one key constituency to another, hoping to win last minute support. The two men most likely to become Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, have been making Campaign Stops in marginal seats. The conservative leader began the day on a milk round in west yorkshire, then onto derby. Next it was south wales, essex, and finally this evening, a rally in london. The labour leader was in glasgow at first light, before travelling to middlesbrough and then onto South Yorkshire and bedford. Hes also now finished his campaign in london. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has all the latest on the eve of the the election. Mrs monaghan at number eight was the yorkshire tory voter with an unusual milk and this morning. Nice to meet you, Prime Minister. What are you doing up this morning . Chocolate milk the last day of any election, peak political pantomime. milk the last day of any election, peak political pantomime. I will be with you in a second. I have an earpiece ready to go. Boris johnson even retreated into a giant fridge when a reporter tried to persuade him on live television. Dont be mistaken, though, this is an intensely serious election. The choice emblazoned everywhere, at every stage of the tory campaign, and even the eu next month with the pass to another referendum. You have beenin pass to another referendum. You have been in trouble a lot of the time in this campaign for not being com pletely this campaign for not being completely straight with people. This week a lot of people looked at how you reacted to something in the nhs and thought it didnt look human at all. Obviously i think anybody who experiences a bad time in the nhs has my full sympathies. We have all been there. That is why i want to concentrate on getting cash into the nhs now. Do you think you deserve to win . Its only if you get brexit done that you can move the country forward. To answer your question, i do think we have the best programme for the country. Do you think you will be moving back into number ten on friday, yes or no . Its very tight. You must have a hunch. You have seen what the polling says. We all remember 2017 and what happened. 0f polling says. We all remember 2017 and what happened. Of course we are fighting now for every vote. But his frantic travels to sell his brexit deal are the target for all the other major parties. Jo swinson the lib dems are trying to win you around. Enthusiastic faces on the stump in the south east dont hide how tough it has been. Im excited about the final hours in the campaign because they can make a crucial difference on whether or not borisjohnson will gain a majority 01 borisjohnson will gain a majority or whether we have a real chance to stop brexit will stop everything to play for in the final hours. Others are trying the outside of the argument but the election is not just about the shape of our relationship with the eu, but the United Kingdom itself. Snp leader Nicola Sturgeon is campaigning in edinburgh dot if nobody gets a majority, Nicola Sturgeon senses a chance for independence. There is an important choice to be made if we dont want to wake up to a five year borisjohnson government on friday than in scotland voting snp is a way to lock him out of office, escape the brexit mess and put the future in ourown the brexit mess and put the future in our own hands. There is only one other contender for the biggestjob of all, though. ForJeremy Corbyn and his devoted followers, perhaps smaller crowds this time. Prime minister corbyn this is their chance to make the words of this anthem come true. This election has been happening on phones and online as well as the platform. |j been happening on phones and online as well as the platform. I have not come here to deliver milk or a fridge labour is offering another vote on brexit, the chance to stay 01 vote on brexit, the chance to stay or leave, a major change of direction. The last minute scramble so direction. The last minute scramble so how do you feel today . Fine. We have been in 82 constituencies, a couple more to go around the country and the enthusiasm of Party Supporters is to go out there and spread the message, its incredible. I think the message is getting through. Is it hard when you have been through this before . The support is growing and there is a greater understanding we cant go on with underfunded Public Services and a government that hasnt been straightforward with us. Lots of people we have heard from around the country are worried about what will happen in parts of the country from your candidates . You show me a candidate that isnt worried from any party in any part of the country will stop being a candidate means you get worried and i tell you what, we will win this thing. You really think that . Cheering see you guys, thank you. Not the expectation of many people in his party, but he surpassed those last time round. Exciting some of the labour tribes is not the same is convincing enough voters to win. Chanting 0h, Jeremy Corbyn. Chanting oh, Jeremy Corbyn. Both rivals for another ten cant police their own crowds will stop tomorrow we will be out knocking on doors like our lives depend on it, as the lives of many do. The labour leader on the platform in east london tonight. Borisjohnson bringing platform in east london tonight. Boris johnson bringing a platform in east london tonight. Borisjohnson bringing a huge audience to a massive stage. Both famously flawed can inspire as well as repel. Are you ready for the contest ahead . Are you pumped up . And not in their audiences this evening, those voices around the country who have expressed frustration and may be fear that the politicians before us may not live up politicians before us may not live up to the challenge of what is ahead. Studio laura, the Campaign Last time around in 2017 altered the dynamic of the whole election. Has that happened this time around, do you think . In a way not. Its an enormous juncture you think . In a way not. Its an enormousjuncture for you think . In a way not. Its an enormous juncture for the country. If the tories get a majority then all the chances are we will leave the eu next month. If they dont get over the line, if there is a Hung Parliament, then the chances are we are on the path to a second referendum and the two main sides have vastly different feelings on how to run the country to stop labour might be thinking they are closing the gap tonight and in a sense we end where we started with the tories broadly ahead but not sure, not secure, that they are actually going to be able to win a majority in order to govern on their own. Its like they have the keys to the car but they are not sure yet they will be able to drive it away. But overall the sense of going around the country and speaking to voters and candidates in every corner of the land is that this election, as the Prime Minister said initially, is something that nobody really wa nted initially, is something that nobody really wanted but it was almost a necessary evil. It is not sometimes just felt a bit miserable because of the weather and it is happening in the weather and it is happening in the wintertime, and while both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have real cause of devoted fans who are very excited and enthralled by both of them in different ways, we have generally met voter after voter after voter who has looked at the choice and thought, im not really convinced by either of them. We have heard time and again people saying, iam going heard time and again people saying, i am going to have to pick the best ofa i am going to have to pick the best of a bad bunch. And its only sometime in the middle of the night tomorrow when we know exactly who that will end up being. But this election has not been an exercise in enthusiastic, which somehow chimes badly with the scale of the decision we have to make as a country. Laura kuenssberg, Political Editor, thank you. Lets take a look at some of the days other election news. The co leaders of the green party, Jonathan Bartley and sian berry, have rung an alarm bell outside parliament, as a warning they say, for the climate emergency. The leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, says he fears brexit will be sold out by borisjohnson if the conservatives gain a majority, which he says is likely. Plaid cymru are ending theircampaign by proposing a law which would make it an offence for politicians to tell lies. It would see elected politicians in the european, westminster and devolved parliaments Face Criminal Charges if they knowingly mislead the public. In their election campaigns, both the conservatives and labour have been targetting key marginal seats that could determine the overall outcome. Our chief political correspondent, vicki young, takes a look now at the electoral landscape for both parties. Six weeks ago, borisjohnson called this election, fed up with the Hung Parliament that he said was trying to stop him delivering brexit. So will his gamble pay off, or willJeremy Corbyn do enough to deny an outright conservative victory like last time . After all the campaigning, some people are still making up their minds. The bbc has been tracking the polls. Both labour and the conservatives have gained ground during the campaign, but the tories have been consistently ahead. The liberal democrats have fallen back, as have the brexit party, after deciding not to stand in conservative seats. One key question is how much of the lib dem vote labour has been able to attract. For borisjohnson to be returned as Prime Minister with an absolute majority, the conservatives will need around 326 mp5. Fewer than that, and he will struggle to pass his brexit deal because the other parties in parliament dont back it. Jeremy corbyn, however, doesnt necessarily need to win as many seats. If the conservatives lose seats to the lib dems and the snp, then theoretically, he could form a government with the same number of mps he got in 2017 if other parties are prepared to back a labour government. This is the electoral map from 2017. This time, the difference between a large conservative majority and a Hung Parliament, with perhaps mr corbyn as pm, could be determined by a few thousand votes in key areas where the contest was really close last time round. If labour are to prevent a conservative majority, they will need to hold onto the areas of red in the midlands and in the north east. But this could be a problem. This is the result map of the brexit referendum. Many of those areas labour will need to hold on to voted leave, and this is where the conservatives will be hoping to make gains. A quick reminder of how Election Night will unfold. At ten oclock, well get the first indication of whats coming with the exit poll thats based on a survey of how people voted. The first results from places like sunderland and newcastle will start coming in from about 11 00pm, and then some of the key declarations from about 1 00am. It promises to be quite a night. Vicki young reporting there. Well, in scotland there are 59 seats up for grabs, many of them marginal. Brexit and the possibility of a second independence referendum, are key issues for voters. Our scotland editor sarah smith reports. Hi, aladdin you might come to the panto to try and escape the election. But even at the rehearsals for aladdin in glasgows maryhill, politics loom large. In scotland, that means both brexit and independence. Since the independence referendum, i dont think any cast that ive been a part of has gone longer than a week without politics coming up, which i think is fantastic, if not a bit entertaining and a bit scary sometimes as well. I feel like in westminster, scotlands voice is never heard. They dont care. What matters to you . Independence, really. I mean, thats the thing. Brexit, its one of those things whats going to get sorted first . We didnt want to leave the eu the first time around when we voted for it. We were promised we werent going to do that, and now we are, regardless of how we feel about it, so i think thats just going to be the final nail in the coffin of, you know, us being a part of this union. The election in scotland is hard to call, as so many seats have tiny majorities. Lanark and Hamilton East is a three way marginal. Tomorrow, this church will be a polling station where the result is impossible to predict. Places like this vividly illustrate how scottish politics has been transformed by the independence debate and now brexit. As those issues have overtaken old party loyalties, you can see what was a core labour heartland, which had turned to the snp, could now conceivably become a tory seat. In east renfrewshire, even flower arranging gets political when the teacher is the granddaughter of a suffragette, who told her. Kathleen, whatever happens, you must vote. The scottish conservatives are hoping to hold onto constituencies like this one, that they won in 2017, by making this election more about independence than brexit. I feel very disenfranchised. I voted to remain, so im not keen on a tory government. I want to stay in the uk, so i dont want to vote for the snp. I dont wish scotland to be independent by any manner or means. We are part of the uk and i wish to stay that way. Scottish voters have two big, interconnected constitutional issues to confront, in an election that may not settle either of them. Sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow. So, whats the picture in wales and Northern Ireland . In a moment, well hear from Hywel Griffith, but first from belfast, and emma vardy. The focus of a general election inevitably centres on who is going to get the keys to no 10. And as important as that is. Its not always paramount to everyone in Northern Ireland. Yes, there are 18 parliamentary seats up for grabs here in a battle dominated by those who want a United Ireland versus those who want to remain british. But green and orange aside, and that big brexit divide, this time there is another issue thats emerged on the doorsteps and its one which unites everyone. At some point, well all need the people behind these doors and Northern Irelands Health Service is in crisis. Waiting lists are at unprecedented levels the worst in the uk, with people waiting years for operations and nurses set to strike for the first time. This is cutting through as a big issue in the election, even though it isnt governed by westminster and is supposed to be run by Northern Irelands devolved government at stormont. You wont find many politicians coming to these doors. Its been nearly three years since power sharing collapsed. Civil servants are running Public Services but they have little powers to tackle a crisis. It means whoever gets the keys to no 10 will have to keep one eye on getting this seemingly ungovernable place back to business. It means the election in Northern Ireland has become about issues largely beyond mps control. Wales is traditionally a labour stronghold, the partys come first in every general election vote here for a century. Two years ago, it took 28 of the a0 welsh seats, including this constituency of gower. But during the campaign, that grip may have loosened. The polls suggest that the conservatives are on course to take several of those seats, including this one. By putting brexit at the front and centre of his campaign, Boris Johnsons been trying to woo lifelong labour supporters who voted to leave the eu. And there are plenty of them in wales, which overall and are supported brexit. Labour politicians ive spoken to concede see they face another challenge. Jeremy corbyns popularity ratings in wales have been poor. They have meant hes struggled to connect with their heartland. During the campaign, hes made one visit to wales, a tour of constituencies last weekend. But what about the other parties . Well, plaid cymrus adam price has been very visible thanks to the televised leaders debate. But plaid still face a fight to hold onto theirfour seats, while the lib dems hope their pro remain pact with plaid will helpjo swinson hang on to her one welsh constituency. But the real story will be what happens to labours vote, and whether brexit has broken its dominance here. The view from wales from Hywel Griffith and emma vardy in Northern Ireland. But its notjust a ground war thats been taking place in this election. Social media has been a key Battle Ground too, for all the parties. Our media editor, amol rajan, takes a look back, at the cyber campaign. You might have seen some of this Campaign Material pumped out by Political Parties over the past 2a hours. Between them, theyve reached millions of eyeballs. In recent weeks, none of us will have seen the same things digitally. What we get is tailored to our digitalfriends, interests and history. In the 2016 referendum and 2017 general election, one of the big themes was the impact of targeted adverts on facebook. Heres what we know about how the parties spent money on such adverts in this election. The conservative party have upped their organic content game, so they are making stuff thats much easier to share. The labour party is still very good at that. Spending a lot more money on advertising than it did in 2017 but the tories are probably down a little bit. And the lib dems have been relentlessly consistent in spending just lots of money every single day. So much for ads. We know that in this election a huge amount of the National Conversation has been taking place in open and closed groups on platforms such as facebook and whatsapp. Much of this organically shared material goes viral. This week, a picture of a young boy at leeds general infirmary was seen by millions when the Prime Minister was asked about it. But suddenly, a false counter narrative also went viral when the veracity of the picture was questioned. Those false claims were injected into the bloodstream of this campaign by suspicious accounts many anonymised and now deleted. There have been signs of russian interference with what appeared to be genuine us uk trade documents leaked into the public domain. Some of the attempts to sow discord with false narratives do bear a discomforting resemblance to previous foreign operations. But most of the fake news in this election has come from Political Parties. You might say, thats good Old Fashioned political spin, but social media allows parties to disseminate information exceptionally far and exceptionally fast. Two of the things people most love to share online are lies and laughs. Oh, hi. Who is it . Its carol singers. Humour can show a leader in a more human light. This week the conservatives uploaded a pastiche of love actually. A pastiche of love, actually. While Jeremy Corbyns fireside banter involved reading out mean tweets. Can someone tell me who Jeremy Corbyn is . The next Prime Minister. In an age of information overload, our attention is the most precious resource. Voters today are more often scanning, strolling and skimming scanning, scrolling and skimming through digital headlines than furrowing deep into stories. Online, the distinction between news and noise can be hard to fathom, and never more so than in an election. Amol rajan, bbc news. The main parties have put different issues at the top of their manifestos, from brexit to the nhs. But where do they stand on the key questions upper most in voters minds . Weve asked our team of correspondents, to take a look. Brexit, its why the election is happening on the issue that will dominate afterwards. The conservatives want a majority to get Boris Johnsons conservatives want a majority to get borisjohnsons deal conservatives want a majority to get Boris Johnsons deal through parliament unchanged to end our membership of the eu at the end of january. Then there will be a transition period where eu law still applies and negotiations with brussels over trade, security and other matters. Some of the brexit party except the Prime Minister wasnt deal and some dont but they wa nt to wasnt deal and some dont but they want to win seats of their own to keep an eye on him as he delivers it. Labour would negotiate a close economic relationship with the eu, they would put that and the option of remaining to a public vote after six months. Jeremy corbyn would stay neutral. The lib dems and snp wants a referendum too and they would campaign to stay in, although a lib dem government would cancel brexit altogether. All sorts of promises have been made by the parties on the nhs. Tens of thousands more doctors, nurses and other health staff, more investment in Mental Health and front line services. So, what does it all add up services. So, what does it all add . Services. So, what does it all add up to . Well, many Health Leaders say the pledges dont go far enough to address a fundamental problem. That is the relentlessly rising demand for patient care and the fact that nhs resources and staffing simply havent kept up. Closing that gap will take time and money. Cutting waiting lists and modernising Services Even more. Training new staff and getting them into clinical posts could take several years, so thats a lot for the next government to face up to. Never mind the challenges of a potentially difficult winter in the months ahead. Living longer is great when you can make the most of it, as they are here. But the crisis in the adult care system which supports people who are older and disabled with day to day life is well documented. Despite that, the issue has not been at the heart of this election. Labour has plans for reform. The conservatives, liberal democrats offer Guiding Principles and cross party talks. But after more than 20 years of talking, experts say more discussions are not an adequate a nswer to discussions are not an adequate answer to the pressures families face right now. And the difficulties in childrens social care, with more children needing protection and councils struggling to cope, are even less on the agenda. Both are issues that a new government will have to tackle. There is a significant choice at this election. A larger, more powerful state with an investment blitz is labours offer, tax and spend at the highest sustained levels in british peacetime history all raised, they say, from businesses and the richest 596. Say, from businesses and the richest 5 . With a majority, labour promises to ta ke 5 . With a majority, labour promises to take into Public Ownership various services. But that raises questions not just about the scale of government but the skill of ministers in running rail, mail and water services. But conservatives also offer a radical vision of trade policy, a looser economic relationship with europe, that will bring new checks on trade across the channel and across the irish sea in order to forge closer economic ties with the likes of the us. A brexit with the likes of the us. A brexit with no trade deal is also possible by the end of 2020. The eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier saying that a deal in such a timeframe is unrealistic, raising fears amongst manufacturers about their reliance on seamless trade with europe. Either way, significant economic choice for the public. Faisal islam ending that report, from some of our specialist correpondents. Theres much more information online, including a full list of candidates in your area, on our website. Thats at bbc. Co. Uk election. And if youre still making up your mind, theres also a guide to each partys policies. The political leader of myanmar, aung san suu kyi, has been defending her country, against accusations of genocide, at the International Court ofjustice in the netherlands. The Nobel Peace Prize winner said military action against Rohingya Muslims in 2017, in which thousands were killed and many more fled the country, was the result of necessary operations, against rohingya militants. Our myanmar correspondent, nick beake, reports now from the hague. Many have given up on aung san suu kyi. Not these loyal supporters. They told us theyd travelled 5,000 miles from myanmar to be with her today. She had come to tell the world there had been no Rohingya Genocide on her watch. Are three quarters of a million rohingya lying, ms suu kyi . Do you have any sympathy at all for the rohingya . Could it be that the harrowing evidence she heard yesterday, of myanmars army trying to eradicate the Rohingya Muslim people, had shaken her . Changed the mind of someone once famous for her defence of human rights . No. Regrettably, the gambia has placed before the court an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation in Rakhine State in myanmar. Aung san suu kyi claims that the rohingya exodus in 2017 was sparked by attacks by rohingya militants. She did admit the myanmar army, which she does not control, had killed civilians in the security operation that followed, but the perpetrators would be brought tojustice. Can there be genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigates, prosecutes and punishes soldiers and officers who are accused of wrongdoing . This has been another remarkable day in the extraordinary life of aung san suu kyi. The Nobel Peace Prize winner now defending a charge of genocide. For years, the western world championed her cause. Today, she accused it of failing to understand what had been happening in her country. There was no regret, there was no apology. She said simply, there was no case to answer. She left thejudges to consider her words. The International Court of Public Opinion may have already made up its mind. Nick beake, bbc news, the hague. The post office is to pay out almost £58 million, to settle a long running case brought by more than 500 postmasters and mistresses. It follows faults in the companys it system, that led to people being wrongly accused of fraud and false accounting, some even went to jail. The post office says it accepts, it got things wrong. A teenage drug dealer has been found guilty of the murder of 14 year old jaden moodie, knocked off his moped and stabbed repeatedly in east london injanuary. The old bailey heard thatjaden died in the middle of a turf war between rival drugs gangs. Adina campbell reports. Another young life cut short, caused by knife crime in london. Jaden moodie was just 1a years old when he was murdered. The final moments of his Life Captured on this shocking cctv footage. While on a moped, he is rammed into by a stolen black mercedes. A hooded gang, armed with large knives, jump out and repeatedly stab him in an attack lasting just 1a seconds. The teenager had only moved to london from nottingham six months before he was killed. Jaden was ambitious, loved life. He loved his family, he loved his grandma. He was just fun to be around because he would always playjokes and pranks on us and things. During the two week trial, thejury heard jaden had links to a gang and sold drugs for them. On the night of his death, he was targeted by a rival gang, also in the east london area. On the evening jaden was killed, some of the residents living on this road here in leyton reported seeing the gang members stomping and stamping on the teenager before the car wheels spun away. The 14 year old was left quivering with trails of blood coming away from his body. Today, 19 year old Ayoub Majdouline has been found guilty of murdering the teenager and possessing a knife. He is expected to be sentenced next week. Adina campbell, bbc news. The environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has called on World Leaders at a un summit to stop making excuses to avoid taking action on climate change. Her speech coincided with her being named time magazines person of the year. Heres our science editor, david shukman. To ms Greta Thunberg. Applause a global celebrity at the age of 16, Greta Thunberg was here to energise the talks. Not with emotion, but instead with a calm reminder to World Leaders that the latest facts about rising temperatures and melting ice. How do you react to these numbers without feeling at least some level of panic . How do you respond to the fact that basically nothing is being done about this without feeling the slightest bit of anger . She was speaking as the negotiations seemed to be in slow motion, dragging on over technical details
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