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Today, we start the first of six Old Newscasts looking at the story of 30 years of British Politics through six votes.

We start in 1997, when the Prime Minister John Major called an election, hoping to extend 18 years of Conservative rule, and beat Labour’s Tony Blair .

To help us, we have two BBC legends who were there at the time. Jeremy Vine was and political reporter and Kirsty Wark was presenting Newsnight.

In this, the first of two 1997 election episodes, we look at what contributed to Blair’s landslide.

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Have you ever wondered how WWE goes from wrestling arena to your TV?

BBC Tech Now’s Ammie Sekhon goes inside the huge travelling production machine that makes each broadcast happen.

From the trucks and audio teams to the global commentary network and the crew working behind the scenes, how has technology changed the way stars perform?

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A further 55,000 people have been evacuated from six towns in France, as wildfires which have caused devastation across the country pick up pace.

The most recent evacuations took place in towns to the south of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region.

Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week, primarily France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people have been evacuated.

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One woman is dead and 16 others are injured after a car was driven into a crowd at a Berlin Pride event, police say.

Police have identified a suspect, who they say has known links to Islamist circles, but say no arrests have been made.

An intensive manhunt is under way in the German capital - officers have released a photo of the suspect and are appealing for help finding him.

A white vehicle suspected of being used in the attack has also been pictured inside the police cordon.

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One person is dead and 16 others are injured after a car was driven into a crowd at a Berlin Pride event, police say.

An intensive manhunt is taking place in the German capital of Berlin, officers say.

The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, has called the incident, "an attack on our free and open-minded society"

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Around 270,000 people in France and Spain have been forced to flee their homes to escape fires which have been raging for days, as winds and high temperatures hamper efforts to contain them.

In France, around 200,000 people have been evacuated in south-western regions of Gironde and Landes regions. The country has mobilised its military to help with the response and extra reinforcements from the army have been sent to help firefighters by clearing brush and creating fire breaks.

French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency meeting with ministers as around 30 separate major fires rage - a situation which the government said was unprecedented.

In Spain, where a state of emergency has been declared, wildfires have been threatening the capital, Madrid. Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez admitted there are "complex times ahead".

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Joe Inwood.

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Touching, embracing and kissing before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, according to scientists studying the behaviour of our closest ape relatives.

Researchers at Durham University, England, studied chimpanzees and bonobos using physical contact to reassure each other ahead of conflicts over food.

One of the most surprising findings was that chimpanzees, despite their reputation for aggression, engaged in close contact, including placing fingers in one another's mouths.

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India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after weeks of protests over exam paper leaks and testing irregularities.

The demonstrations were spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) - not a real party, but a satirical campaign turned national movement.

What began as a student-led campaign against alleged exam paper leaks became one of India's biggest displays of public dissent in recent years, with thousands camping in Delhi and demonstrations spreading across the country.

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Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires raging across Europe.

An evacuation alert for residents in the south-west of France takes the number of people displaced to more than 220,000.

In Spain, about 25,000 were told to evacuate as a local official says that containing wildfires near Madrid is "beyond the capacity" of firefighters.

A major incident has also been declared by Police Scotland, as emergency services continue to tackle a wildfire which has been burning in the Cairngorms National Park for 10 days.

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Despite police crackdowns and accusations of brutality during protests this week, India's 'youth-led' Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is showing no signs of slowing down, as it gathers support from the public and opposition politicians.

The group is demanding education reforms and the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who oversaw exams in the country which were subject to corruption claims. The group began after India's Chief Justice, Surya Kant, allegedly compared unemployed young people and activists to cockroaches and parasites during a court hearing. He later said he was only referring to people with "fake and bogus degrees", but when graduate Abhijeet Dipke used the name Cockroach Party to start a satirical group online, it gained millions of followers rapidly and grew into one of the most unexpected challenges to the powerful, nationalist government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to take care of the country's youth in a midnight video, after the party called for nationwide protests to be held again on Friday and talks between representatives of the Cockroach Party and government officials later took place in Delhi, but as our Global Affairs Correspondent and India specialist Anbarasan Ethirajan explains, the fractures between young people in India and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) run deeper than anger over exam fraud.

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