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Tonight at Ten, billions are wiped off shares after a turbulent day

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of trading on stock markets around the world.

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From New York to London and beyond, investors have been gripped

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by concerns over falling oil prices and slowing global growth.

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The head of BP tells us he fears the volatility could go

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The whole financial markets are unsure.

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Certainty is really hard to find right now.

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We'll be finding out how all the market turmoil

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Also tonight: On the eve of a report into the death of the former Russian

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spy Alexander Litvinenko, his son says he's determined to get

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My father did a hell of a lot to get me to this country

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I need to respect that and do all I can to honour his memory.

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The red doors in Middlesbrough, and a row over whether they prompted

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Fires, floods and drought - 2015 was Planet Earth's warmest year

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If you're a poor kid from a poor family

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and a priest pays attention to you, it's a big deal.

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And the film tipped to win big at next month's Oscars,

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based on the true story of the cover-up of child abuse

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Defeat for London's cabbies

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in their attempt to restrict online rivals such as Uber.

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And the teaching assistant beaten unconscious by a parent

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Billions of pounds have been wiped off stocks around the world

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because of fears over global growth and plummeting oil prices.

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In London, the FTSE 100 lost ?50 billion in a single day of trading.

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The Chief Executive of BP, Bob Dudley, has told the BBC

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he believes the volatility could continue for months

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He also said a vote to leave the European Union in the upcoming

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referendum, would seriously damage investment in British businesses.

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Tomorrow, David Cameron will urge UK bosses to back his efforts to keep

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Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, reports now

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from the annual meeting of world business leaders in

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Another grim day for the global economy.

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In New York, investors selling stocks, in Hong Kong shares down.

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For business leaders at Davos, worrying times.

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When you look at the oil price, the volatility of the market

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since the start of the year, what is it telling you about

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There is a lot of uncertainty, not just in the oil and gas industry

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but the whole financial markets are unsure of where...

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Certainty is really hard to find right now.

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The questions about China, the debate going on is creating

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It has been the price of oil that has raised most concerns,

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But Mr Dudley says it will not last and predicts the price of oil

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could double by the end of the year as demand from China

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Of course, low oil prices can be good for countries that import oil,

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like the UK and fast-growing economies across Asia.

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There are a lot of emerging markets in trouble because of it and lots

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Part of India's benefit at the moment is because India

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is a natural resource importer, not an exporter, and it is doing

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well because of low energy and commodity prices.

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There is another issue being talked about in the corridors and snowy

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streets of this major political and business conference,

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the European Union and Britain's role in it.

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David Cameron arrives here in Davos tomorrow and Europe will be high

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I am told that the Prime Minister has been speaking to business

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leaders and saying he wants them to come out in support of Britain

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remaining in a reformed European Union.

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In Bob Dudley, he certainly has one fan of that position.

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I asked him if Britain was better off staying in the EU.

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However, I would also say I am very supportive of the Prime Minister's

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efforts to talk with Europe to make it more competitive.

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Why is it still important that we remain in Europe?

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You are an international business, you operate in countries

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Many of the trade regulations and things would still apply

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even if Britain were outside of it and then it would be potentially

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I also think Britain's role in the world, in terms of influence,

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it will have more influence being a part of Europe.

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Many business leaders disagree with Mr Dudley,

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saying the UK could flourish outside the EU.

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Tomorrow, it will be Mr Cameron's turn here,

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selling Britain's tricky renegotiation with

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Well, just like Davos here in the Swiss Alps, this can all seem a

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little remote. Why does it matter that billions of pounds are wiped

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off the global markets? I suppose it matters because the investors in

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those stocks and shares are our pension funds, our savings, and when

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those stocks and shares fall dramatically, like they have today,

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that has a negative effect on those pension funds and on our savings.

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Whatever the doom and gloom today, and it might continue, as Bob Dudley

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said, for months, tomorrow for Britain will be dominated by one

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thing. David Cameron arrives here in Davos to encourage, to demand that

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business leaders get behind him and what he says are the right reforms

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to reform the European Union. That will only heighten speculation that

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the referendum on whether to leave or remain in the EU is imminent,

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maybe June, maybe early in the autumn.

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Many thanks. Well, the falls in world stock

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markets are having a significant impact on jobs and wages

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here in Britain. Our Economics Correspondent Andy

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Verity has sent us this At this Sheffield foundry,

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the global slowdown is coming home. It sells bespoke

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cast-iron products to the oil and gas industry,

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steelmakers and manufacturers. Last spring, orders

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started to dry up. With less money coming in,

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the company may not be able As an employer, a small family

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business, people have worked We have a moral responsibility

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to try and look after them. A lot of that looking

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after comes through what we Whether I will be able to do

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that this year or not is something The average pay rise

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in the year to the A much slower rise than

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a few months before. That is in spite of the fact

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unemployment dropped to 5.1%, The unemployment rate

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is lower than it Economists say when the jobs market

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reaches a critical temperature and unemployment is

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low enough, workers will demand higher pay rises,

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forcing employers to put prices up to cover extra costs,

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also known as inflation. like it was reaching

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that critical point, In contrast to heavy

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industry, service industries like retail,

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are far less exposed Instead, lower energy costs have

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allowed customers to spend more In percentage terms,

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think it was about 6%. But it is only 20,000

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a year anyway, now. I am hoping to pay

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a pay rise in April. What hits businesses like this one

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hard is the lack of confidence among customers,

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the big corporations. They have hundreds of billions

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of pounds saved up, but amid

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growing uncertainty about the global economy, they are reluctant

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to spend it. Tomorrow sees the publication

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of the long-awaited final report of the public inquiry into the death

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of the former Russian spy He died in London in 2006,

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poisoned by tea In his first television interview,

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his son Anatoly has told the BBC he wants to know who gave

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the order to kill his father. He was talking to our

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Security Correspondent He just loved Anatoly very much,

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and Anatoly knew this. If he needed something,

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he knew he should ask For Marina Litvinenko,

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pictures are a way the father with his newborn

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son. But for Anatoly Litvinenko,

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who was 12 when his father died, I try not to think too much of my

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early childhood. of a 17-year-old Alexander

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Litvinenko, who joined the Russian but who then became an outspoken

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critic of corruption, to what he thought was

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the safety of Britain. his widow has been fighting to find

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out why he was then murdered. Nine years is a long

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time, but the fact is, there is the potential for nothing

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at all to have happened. Nine years later, that we have

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reached this stage It's taken a lot of

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persistence from your mother. I don't think many people would be

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able to do what she has done. Like, it's been such

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a steep hill to climb. Thanks to my mother,

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we made it through to this point. Litvinenko's tea was poisoned

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at this Mayfair hotel in 2006. Two Russians, Andrei Lugovoi

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and Dmitri Kovtun, They deny any role

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in his killing. Alexander Litvinenko is seen

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arriving to meet them When the alleged killers walked out

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of this London hotel, across London and all

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the way to Moscow. The question for this inquiry

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is whether that trail leads to the Kremlin, and to

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Vladimir Putin himself. Litvinenko was so hated

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by the Russian state that special

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forces publicly used his image for target practice.

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Many in Russia saw him as a traitor. The inquiry revealed that

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Litvinenko was being paid by Britain's intelligence

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service, MI6, and it revealed he was also helping Spanish

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authorities prosecute the Russian Mafia and

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investigate their links has been described as an act

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of nuclear terrorism Obviously, the issue of state

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responsibility is one of the key

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questions for this inquiry. How important is that

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to establish for you both? To be fair, it's probably one

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of the most important things to establish,

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not only for us personally, to see who the trail

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leads to, but I feel it's

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also very important from a security perspective.

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If you look at the fact that polonium was used as a murder

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weapon, a nuclear isotope with the potential to kill

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an untold number of people, you want to find who was behind

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the murder, who planned it Whatever the diplomatic

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consequences, this is also

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about a son fulfilling what he sees My father did a hell of a lot

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to get me into this country I need to respect that and do

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what I can to honour his memory. Those who killed Alexander

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Litvinenko may never stand trial, and so tomorrow could be the closest

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this family gets to justice. The BBC's independent investigation

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into Jimmy Savile appears The Dame Janet Smith Inquiry said

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today the report would be published within the next six weeks,

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but the news website Exaro has Our Media Correspondent

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David Sillito is with me. Do be clear, this is the leak of a

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draft, so we have to be careful with what it says? A lot of health

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warnings about this, yes. If it is the real report, it could be

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different when finally published. However, looking at it, many of the

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quotes from the people in this report match exactly the words

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spoken to me in investigations and inquiries I have made. Many of them

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have not spoken publicly. So what does it actually says? It identifies

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61 incidents of sexual assault by Jimmy Savile on BBC property,

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including four rapes and one attempted rape. It says it goes back

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to the early 1970s, and it says that these occurred across a variety of

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BBC buildings. They say that the culture at the time, talent was

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allowed to get away with behaviour that flew in the face of BBC values.

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It said there were investigations into sexual assaults, and said the

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investigations were wholly inadequate. It said that girl is

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going to Top Of The Pops in the early 1970s were exposed to moral

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danger. However, the general conclusions, it says here, I do not

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think the BBC can be criticised for failing to uncover Savile's

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deviancy. No one uncovered him, the BBC was just one of many. But it

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does say the BBC can be criticised for its failure to examine Savile's

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personality critically, because of the rumours and most of all, because

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he was dealing with children. At least 19 people have died

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in a gun and bomb attack The security forces say four

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suspected attackers were later killed in a gunfight,

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which lasted nearly three hours. The attack took place

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at the Bacha Khan University campus, 30 miles from Peshawar

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in the north-west of the country. Army commandos raced across open

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fields surrounding the university as the militants opened fire on

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students and staff inside. The attackers are believed to have

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scaled the walls at the back of the campus, under a cover of early

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morning thick fog. The attack lasted almost three

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hours, as military and special forces made their way in, eventually

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killing four gunmen who are all said to have been wearing suicide vests.

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The only way for those inside to escape was through the main gates.

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It was devastation inside. Walls covered in bullet holes, a sign of

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the shock and panic as students and staff fled for their lives.

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TRANSLATION: There was so much panic and fear that a friend of mine

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jumped from the university building. The building is very high but he

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just jumped because he was so scared. We saw the militants

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chanting Allah is the greatest. The wounded were rushed to hospital,

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traumatised. And often inconsolable.

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Bacha Khan University has close connections to a secular political

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party which has been targeted by militants in the past.

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It's unclear whether the Pakistani Taliban are responsible for this

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latest assault, but they were behind a similar attack on an Army public

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school in Peshawar in 2014 in which 132 school children were killed.

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Today's attack will raise questions about why the militants are still

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able to strike soft targets like this university and how effective

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the military operation has been this last year, especially with a mix of

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militant networks that is evolving on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Many

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took to the streets to condemn the attacks. This will be a sleepless

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night for many families across the country as they again fear sending

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their children to school the next day.

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Austria says it's to cut significantly the number of asylum

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applications it accepts over the next four years.

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The country's become a major transit point for people hoping to claim

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Our Europe Editor Katya Adler is in Berlin for us tonight.

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Europe is in an absolute panic over migration especially amongst wealthy

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countries like Austria which is a favourite like Germany and Sweden

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amongst the hundreds of thousands of refugees and others who came to

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Europe last year and are still coming. Today Austria's Government

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bowed to political and public pressure to limit arrivalens and

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here in Germany Angela Merkel is being urged to do the same, to set a

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figure at which Germany says no more, we are full but she repeated

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she thinks the only way forward is with a European solution, mainly to

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reduce drastically the number of people coming over to Europe. There

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is talk of forming a European coastguard, but in reality, once a

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boat of asylum seekers is in European waters, never mind on land,

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it's duty bound under international law to take the boat in and examine

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each one of those asylum claims. So a lot of hopes are being pinned on

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Turkey stopping the people smugglers sending boats over. It's being

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offered three billion euros as an incentive, but so far so unr

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unimpressive, it's winter the Mediterranean is very cold and 2,000

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people are still coming over from Turkey every day. Imagine how many

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more when the weather is warmer. The Prime Minister said this is a race

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against time. Sglp

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A company which houses asylum seekers in Middlesbrough has been

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accused of inadvertently highlighting where they live

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by painting all their doors bright red.

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Some residents say they've had stones and eggs thrown at windows.

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The security firm G4S, whose sub-contractor owns

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the houses, insists there was no policy to house asylum seekers

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behind red doors, and they'll now be repainted.

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Well, Danny Savage is there for us now.

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This is just one street in Middlesbrough that has a number of

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those controversial red front doors. Tonight, G4S, the company

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responsible for placing asylum seekers here, has admitted it knew

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about the issue of front door colours four years ago. It says a

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decision not to do anything then was ill-judged. In the meantime, asylum

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seekers living here say having a red front door singles them out.

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The colour of the front doors in most streets generally goes

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unnoticed, but not here in Middlesbrough.

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A housing company called Jomast has painted many of its front doors red.

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They believe they're being targeted by thugs and racists because a red

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This Iraqi Kurd didn't want his identity revealed.

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They know we are the foreign nationals, that's why.

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They knock on the door, they are painting the windows.

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They knock on the door and swear at us.

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They are clear to the - red door means foreign people live

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He says this paint on his window was left by people targeting him

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In another part of town, the initials of the far-right

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National Front group have been scratched into the red door

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Where asylum seekers live varies widely across the UK.

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Almost half of local authorities don't have anyone

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But 15% of local authorities have more than 100 with Glasgow

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and Middlesbrough among those with the highest proportion,

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Is the issue in Middlesbrough less about the colour of doors,

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and more about a backlash against the number of asylum seekers?

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The level of racism is pretty low in the town, it is,

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because I used to chair a racial harassment case group meeting

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so I knew how many cases were coming through.

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I know they're under-reported but even when you take that

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into consideration there's not that much racism going on.

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Local campaigners say they've raised the red door issue before in front

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The boss of the company which owns the houses says the problem

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of his tenants being subjected to racism is news to him.

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There has been mention of the fact that our properties might have

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red doors, on occasion, but it was never regarded

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We're going to repaint the front doors to make sure that there is no

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preponderance of any particular colour.

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You're here and people here are asylum seekers as well?

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Another asylum seeker who believes his red front door

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attracts trouble likes the idea of a new colour scheme.

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Would painting your front door make a difference?

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Will make me not worry that other people may think that

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The hope here is that a lick of paint will tackle the problem,

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giving asylum seekers a quieter life.

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Danny Savage, BBC news, Middlesbrough.

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The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, says he's very

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concerned about the number of civilian casualties caused

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by Russian air strikes targeting opposition forces in Syria,

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Russia launches its air strikes from a base in Latakia on the Syrian

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coast, and our correspondent Steve Rosenberg is there.

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Well, since the start of its air campaign in Syria Russia has faced

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dproeing criticism over who it's targeting and laevenlged civilian

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casualties -- growing. -- alleged. The Russians have brushed aside that

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criticism claiming they're the victims, the victims of an

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information war against the West. From what we have seen today at the

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Russian base in Syria that criticism has not convinced Russia to reduce

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the intensity of its air operation. In Syria, it's still Russian bombers

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that dominate the skies. We last visited Russia's Hemeimeem

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air base two months ago. When we came back today,

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we noticed an extra runway The S-400 rocket launcher brought

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in after Turkey shot down a Russian Since it launched its military

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operations in Syria three-and-a-half months ago, Russia's air force has

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carried out around 6,000 sorties from this air base near Latakia

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and it's Russian air strikes The Russians put on display

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their firepower today. We were shown how they load missiles

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on to their most advanced bombers. But how accurate are

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the Russian air strikes? Western governments and human rights

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groups claim that unguided Russian munitions have caused hundreds

:24:57.:25:00.

of civilian deaths across Syria. There's nothing new about

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statements like this, But we never see any

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facts or any proof." Are you saying that after nearly

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6,000 sorties Russian bombing has And now, as well as the military

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operation, there's a humanitarian This is food and medicine

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for a Syrian town besieged by fighters from

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so-called Islamic State. The Russians are trying to show that

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instead of harming civilians, Steve Rosenberg, BBC News,

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at the Russian air base in Syria. 2015 was the hottest year

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since records began, according to Nasa

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and the UK Met Office. New figures show the Earth's

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temperature was 1 degree Celsius Our Science Editor David

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Shukman has the story. Record heat fanned massive fires

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in California and Indonesia. Intense rain storms

:26:21.:26:27.

triggered widespread floods. From the Caribbean to Japan,

:26:28.:26:36.

which was hit by an unprecedented And punishing drought has left

:26:37.:26:39.

millions hungry in Africa. And behind all this

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is a rise in global Scientists say that is partly

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driven by our greenhouse gases and partly by a natural cycle

:26:49.:26:55.

called El Nino in the Pacific where warm water releases

:26:56.:26:58.

heat and disrupts weather The main reason we have such warm

:26:59.:27:01.

temperatures is human induced climate change and that

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is the main factor. El Nino is contributing

:27:09.:27:10.

a small amount on top. Let's see the context

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for this new record. This graph from the Met office shows

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temperatures since 1850 fluctuating compared to the long-term

:27:17.:27:21.

average, gradually rising right up to the record high set last year,

:27:22.:27:25.

an increase of one degree Halfway to the two degrees limit

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world leaders agreed should be the maximum for global

:27:29.:27:35.

warming when they met One degree does not sound like very

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much but if you think about the differences

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on a planetary scale, the last ice age was only five

:27:41.:27:43.

degrees colder than it is today. So one degree is actually a very

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significant number and we already see an impact in the Arctic,

:27:48.:27:49.

mountain glaciers, Areas marked in red and orange

:27:50.:27:51.

were warmer than average last year, there were lots, including the UK

:27:52.:28:05.

where last year will be remembered for record-breaking

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rain in December. The flooding that struck

:28:09.:28:12.

Northern England had all kinds of causes but scientists have always

:28:13.:28:14.

warned warmer air can hold more moisture and can produce

:28:15.:28:17.

more intense storms. And the forecast is for

:28:18.:28:22.

another global temperature That does not mean that

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everyone will feel it, but scientists say

:28:26.:28:29.

a warming trend is clear. One of the frontrunners for next

:28:30.:28:37.

month's Oscars is called Spotlight and tells the true story

:28:38.:28:40.

of an American newspaper's investigation into the cover-up

:28:41.:28:42.

of child abuse within the Catholic Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz,

:28:43.:28:45.

met the film's star, Michael Keaton, and the real-life

:28:46.:28:49.

character he portrays. When you're a poor kid from a poor

:28:50.:28:52.

family and the priest pays attention

:28:53.:28:54.

to you, it's a big deal. There's been a massive cover-up

:28:55.:28:57.

in the Catholic Church. The numbers indicate that there

:28:58.:29:02.

were senior clergy involved. It's exposed by the Boston

:29:03.:29:05.

Globe Spotlight team of investigative journalists,

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led by Walter "Robby" Robinson, Everyone knew something

:29:10.:29:11.

was going on, Michael, in a way, this

:29:12.:29:15.

is an old-fashioned movie. Are you surprised that it's

:29:16.:29:20.

getting the attention? I guess I am, because it's

:29:21.:29:23.

a procedural thing. You're talking about

:29:24.:29:26.

tedium, you know. You're talking about papers

:29:27.:29:28.

and files and that can be "Oh,

:29:29.:29:33.

boy", especially now with what we are used

:29:34.:29:38.

to and addicted to. That's the only thing that

:29:39.:29:40.

will put and end to this. It's a piece of recent history,

:29:41.:29:49.

meaning Michael Keaton could shadow his opposite

:29:50.:29:53.

number at the Globe. A guy leans on a guy and suddenly,

:29:54.:29:55.

the whole town looks the other way. This movie goes beyond being just

:29:56.:30:05.

about an investigative team. It's about a community,

:30:06.:30:08.

which kind of becomes complicit, It's actually true

:30:09.:30:11.

of a lot of us and a

:30:12.:30:18.

lot of our institutions. We all thought the church

:30:19.:30:21.

is too important, So that when the priest

:30:22.:30:22.

offended and they said it's

:30:23.:30:31.

just one priest, people believed them,

:30:32.:30:33.

when in fact... When in fact, they were

:30:34.:30:34.

literally covering up the sexual crimes

:30:35.:30:42.

of thousands of priests across the United

:30:43.:30:43.

States for decades. This is Boston, and the Church does

:30:44.:30:46.

not want them to be found. Spotlight has received

:30:47.:30:49.

six Oscar-nominated, which,

:30:50.:30:55.

controversially, is six more For the second year running,

:30:56.:30:58.

all 20 acting nominations It seems to me that the voting

:30:59.:31:02.

bloc I just think they're

:31:03.:31:11.

possibly out of touch. Do you think the Spotlight team

:31:12.:31:18.

should be put on it? There are no special effects

:31:19.:31:20.

and precious little action. It's simply a powerful story,

:31:21.:31:30.

which according to many critics, Newsnight is coming

:31:31.:31:40.

up over on BBC Two.

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