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Tonight at Ten, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

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He'd been in the job for six years, presiding over far-reaching welfare

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reforms, but tonight he says the Treasury put too much pressure

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Amid the controversy surrounding cuts to disability benefits,

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We'll have the very latest from Downing Street.

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Also on the programme: Europe's most-wanted man,

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Salah Abdeslam, a prime suspect in the Paris terror attacks,

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He was arrested during raids in a suburb of the Belgian capital,

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He'd been on the run for four months.

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EU leaders and Turkey strike a deal that means from Sunday,

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thousands of migrants who reach Europe will be sent back.

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Tear gas and water canon are used as protests over corruption grow

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in Brazil, with demands the president stands down.

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And from two wheels to four legs - the Oympic cycling champion

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Victoria Pendleton takes on the challenge of a lifetime at

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England pull off a remarkable

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victory in the World Twenty20 - chasing down the second-highest

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Iain Duncan Smith has resigned from the Cabinet.

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The shock move tonight from the Work and Pensions Secretary follows

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In a statement the Work and Pensions Secretary said too much pressure had

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been put on him to reduced its ability benefits. The shock move

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comes over mounting controversy over ?4 millions ?4 billion worth of cuts

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to personal independence payments. Mr Duncan Smith said the cuts were

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not defensible that it a budget that benefited higher earners. Let's go

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straight to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing Street.

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He's been at work and pensions for six years. As this disillusionment

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been brewing for some time? I think there had been bad blood off and

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between George Osborne at the Treasury and Iain Duncan Smith over

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some of the more controversial welfare reforms that have been

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designed and imposed in recent years. But nobody expected this

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move, only 48 hours since the Budget and one of the most senior figures

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in government, who has been in the job for six years, has decided

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rather than defend this reform publicly, he has decided instead to

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walk out in protest over reforms in his own department. As a prize for

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the government and a bombshell at a very sensitive time. -- a surprise.

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Here is my colleague Alex Forsyth with more.

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For years he has been at the heart of the Conservative Party, a former

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leader who since the Tories returned to power in 2010 has been driving

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through his welfare reforms in Cabinet, but tonight, Iain Duncan

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Smith unexpectedly quit saying he could take no more of the

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government's approach to cutting welfare will stop questioning

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whether we are all in this together. In his resignation letter, Iain

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Duncan Smith wrote, I have for some time and rather reluctantly, come to

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believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled are a

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compromise too far. He continued, too often my team and I have been

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pressured in the immediate run-up to a Budget or fiscal event to deliver

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yet more reductions to the working age benefits bill. First elected to

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Parliament in 1992, Iain Duncan Smith has always prided himself on

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his principles. Committed Euro-sceptic from the start, he was

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a frequent rubble during John Major's negotiations on the

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Maastricht Treaty. -- rabble. But the rebel turned leader. He

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succeeded William Hague in 2001 and put crime, transport, schools and

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hospitals at the top of the Conservative agenda. But never a

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great Commons performer, Iain Duncan Smith eventually stepped down after

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pressure from within his own party. A small of Mike Parliamentary

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colleagues have decided consciously to undermine my leadership. Now it's

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his resignation piling pressure on his own party leader. Well, in a way

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I wasn't surprised because he has always been a man of principle and

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conviction, and he only took on the job at work and pensions because he

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passionately believed in social justice and he was doing a

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tremendous job in reforming it. A row following the Budget led to this

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resignation. The Treasury appeared to try and lay the blame Iain Duncan

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Smith's door for planned cuts to disability payments which have now

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been kicked into the grass. It was the final straw for the Work and

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Pensions Secretary. Iain Duncan Smith pitched himself against the

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government by declaring he would campaign to leave the EU, expected

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given his long held do that a sign of deep Ilott -- ideological

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difference. Now he has made those differences public. He says he's

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incredibly proud of the welfare reforms the government has delivered

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but lately for spending decisions as political rather than in the

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National economic interest. It's a damning verdict from a senior

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figure, the quiet man... Let's go back to Laura Kuenssberg, in Downing

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Street. Is this resignation perhaps also a reflection of the fact that

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the Work and Pensions Secretary hasn't managed to meet the targets

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for benefit cuts that have been put before him in the last few years? I

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think certainly there has been huge pressure on him at the Department

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for Work and Pensions. Sources in government say tonight look, he has

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resigned over a policy he was part of designing. He put this all

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together in conjunction with the Treasury. They are questioning his

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motivation somewhat. Senior MPs I have spoken to tonight say however

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his motivations are very simple. They say he believed that these

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changes to disability payments went too far. He was then angered when

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the Treasury tried to pressure his department to defend those changes

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yesterday. And then angered even more so when today, other parts of

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government, Number ten macro and number 11 decided to dump the policy

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and essentially dumping him right in it. Now, there is of course a very

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different version of events. Senior government officials say they are

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surprised that he suddenly walked away from something that he was

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absolutely part of. But I think the real problem for the government, the

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biggest fundamental issue of all, is contained in his explosive

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resignation letter. In the last line of that letter, he says, he believes

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that the balance of cuts between different parts of society and

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particular between young and old, he questions whether or not the

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government has got that right, and he casts doubt on the government's

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central mantra that we are all in this together. We have all heard

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dozens of times the Prime Minister and the Chancellor in particular,

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but other ministers as well, saying the cuts have to happen but we are

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all in this together, the country's national interest, everyone's

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interests come first but in his letter Iain Duncan Smith casts doubt

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under that absolutely central claim and I think in the days to come that

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will be very difficult indeed for the government to answer. Laura

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Kuenssberg at Downing Street. Salah Abdeslam - the fugitive wanted

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in connection with the Paris terror attacks - is tonight

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in police custody. Belgian authorities say

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the 26-year-old was captured after a shoot out in a suburb

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of Brussels late this afternoon, and that he was shot

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and wounded in the leg. Four other suspects

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were also arrested. Investigators believe Abdeslam

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played a key role in the logistics of the Paris attacks,

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renting one of the vehicles used Damian Grammaticas is in

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the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek for us tonight, where

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Abdeslam was captured. Yes, ever since those attacks in

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November there has been a huge operation by French and Belgian

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police to hunt down Salah Abdeslam. They know he left Paris in the

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aftermath and came back here to Brussels, and that search ended

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today. But a warning in our report there are some flashing images. But

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the prosecutor said this afternoon was that Salah Abdeslam was traced

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to this street here. He was unarmed, he tried to resist arrest, and he

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was shot right here. GUNSHOTS. They've been hunting their prime

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suspect for four months. On an ordinary Brussels street

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today, they got him, He was wounded as he tried to escape

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but now he's firmly in the grip Officers trained their weapons

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on the surrounding buildings, wary of being targeted

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as they bundled him away. Armoured units had moved

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into the area around 4pm. It has been suggested that they had

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a tip-off that Salah Abdeslam This is Molenbeek in Brussels,

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where he used to live and even

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as police moved cautiously incredibly the road was still open,

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traffic moving past them. Then there were shots and witnesses

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said that grenades were fired too. And even as the ambulances

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were heading towards the scene, police sources were already saying

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they had captured Salah Abdeslam. For the Belgian police,

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then, this seems to have been Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect

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from the Paris attacks, wounded in the leg and then it seems

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arrested at the top of the street following those police

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investigations that have been going on since the Paris attacks

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which have traced him TRANSLATION: I heard

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like firecrackers, apparently gunshots, but I don't know

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what happened exactly. Belgian's prime minister

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Charles Michel rushed out of the summit of European leaders,

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taking place across town, He and his French counterpart

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Francois Hollande were following TRANSLATION: There have been arrests

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already and there We know that the network was quite

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widespread so until we have arrested all those who took part

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in the terrorist network committed the abominable acts of war

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on November the 13th, Prosecutors say that Salah Abdeslam

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was a key part of the Paris attacks. There had been rumours that he may

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have fled to Syria but just this afternoon investigators

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said his fingerprint had been found at a flat they raided in Brussels

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earlier in the week. It is thought he may have escaped

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out of a back window as another man fired at officers to keep

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them pinned down. And there were two major explosions

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close together, as police continued their operation

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into the evening. And the police raid has raised

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tensions in Molenbeek. This evening, riot police

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were brought in to deal with groups unhappy at the presence of so many

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officers on the street. We know now that three of the people

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arrested today were a family who were sheltering Salah Abdeslam. He

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has been taken to hospital to be treated for his wounds. The French

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president Francois Hollande has said the investigations will continue

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because, he said, there are many, many more people who were involved

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in the attacks. The questions Salah Abdeslam will have to answer, was he

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meant to be one of the suicide bombers attacking Paris as well, and

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what about the wider networks behind what happened there? Damian

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Grammaticas in Molenbeek in Eltham. -- Belgium.

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Salah Abdeslam had been a wanted man ever since the attacks

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It appears he may have been in Brussels the whole time.

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For four months, police and intelligence services in France

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and across Europe have been hunting for one man.

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And there will be many questions to ask him - including how

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In the aftermath of the carnage of Paris, a manhunt began

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for Salah Abdeslam, the attacker who got away.

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Within hours of the attacks he was driven into Belgium.

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Police stopped him at a checkpoint but let him down because his name

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Days after the attacks, French police cornered

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the ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Paris.

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He was killed but Abdeslam remained at large.

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The authorities released these pictures of him at a petrol station,

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and carried out dozens of raids, but the trail went cold.

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Some thought he had fled to Syria until tonight's dramatic

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Had Europe's most wanted man really managed to hide for four

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Salah Abdeslam is a significant figure.

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He is alleged to have organised much of the logistics

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He rented rooms and hired cars and drove attackers around

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But while the others died, including his own brother in this

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Perhaps because he backed out of using a suicide vest

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The fact he was captured alive is also significant.

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The next stage will be his interrogation, and if he talks,

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he may be able to fill in crucial gaps in the investigation.

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Understanding exactly how he got in and out of Europe,

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the network that supplied them with weapons, the network of safe

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houses and where they got explosives, these details might be

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Many more people were behind the Paris attacks

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France's president said tonight that Abdeslam may know who some

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So today was a success for the Belgian and French

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But also, questions about why it took so long to find him.

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European leaders have agreed a deal with Turkey,

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aimed at stopping the flow of migrants and refugees

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It means that from midnight on Sunday, all those

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who cross into Greece will be sent back to Turkey,

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In return, thousands of Syrian refugees already there,

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Our Europe editor Katya Adler has more.

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The plan now is to ship the problem to Turkey.

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Most migrant boats leave from its beaches, heading to Europe.

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The Turkish Prime Minister strode into Brussels today,

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oozing confidence before a desperate EU.

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Because he knew what the EU most wanted was to be able to say this.

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Today, we have finally reached an agreement between

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The agreement aimed at stopping the flow of irregular migration,

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Under the deal, all migrants arriving in Greece after midnight

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on Saturday will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum

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In return, EU countries, not including Britain,

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will take possibly tens of thousands of Syrian refugees directly

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Sounds simple and straightforward enough, but in reality this

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The EU wants to put off any and all migrants climbing

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In return, Turkey wants 6 billion euros to help deal with migrants.

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It's demanded visa waivers for Turks for most of the EU,

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and restarting stalled talks on eventual EU membership.

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There is no Turkish future without the EU and there is no EU

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future without Turkey, so there is cooperation.

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But in this deal one of the partners is rather more equal than the other.

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The migration crisis has divided Europe, frightened its people

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and emboldened populist politicians who pose a challenge to the leaders

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In desperation, they've agreed to Turkey's steep demands

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with the usual ifs and buts typical of EU agreements, and this deal

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is legally, morally and practically so contentious that the wording

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in public has been left deliberately opaque in many areas.

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EU lawyers and diplomats have performed contortions,

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trying to get around these thorny issues.

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This migrant boat was intercepted by Britain's HMS Enterprise,

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helping stop people smuggling to Europe, this time via Libya,

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where tens of thousands are thought to be waiting to make the crossing.

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Turkey deal or not, the EU migrant crisis is far from over.

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Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels.

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Let's take a brief look at some of the day's other news.

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Four policemen, one of them retired, have been arrested in connection

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with allegations of fraud involving the Police Federation

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An investigation by Surrey Police is looking into the alleged

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transfer of ?1 million to a charitable account.

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The husband of the international concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko

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has been convicted of her murder at Manchester Crown Court.

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John Martin, who's 48, had denied strangling

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and beating his wife to death, on their second wedding

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder,

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after a teenager was shot dead in Birmingham.

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The 18-year-old victim, named locally as Kenichi Phillips,

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is the fourth person in six months to be fatally shot in the city.

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In Brazil, a corruption scandal is threatening the administration

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of President Dilma Rousseff, with her opponents launching

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This week hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken

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to the streets, demanding she stands down.

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But her supporters say efforts to remove her amount

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President Rousseff is accused of not doing enough to stamp out

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corruption, amid an ongoing judicial investigation into the state

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Her close ally - the former president, Lula Da Silva -

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Our correspondent Nick Bryant is in Sao Paulo for us tonight.

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There have been angry protests in more than 200 cities and some of the

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biggest demonstrations that Brazil has ever seen. This is a country

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that is reeling from the Zika virus and now it is confronting the

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biggest political crisis in 30 years. And all this as the country

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prepares to host the summer Olympic Games.

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It looks from the air like some giant carnival,

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But these are scenes of fury rather than joy.

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Mammoth demonstrations from Sao Paulo, the country's

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largest city, to Copacabana beach in Rio, where there were more people

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They are protesting the corruption that has contaminated Brazilian

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politics, and targeting a former president, a man known simply

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as Lula, who for millions has come to personify the country's

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This protester called for all honest Brazilians to take to the streets.

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This man said that he twice voted for Lula but regrets it now.

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A politician who rose from Brazil's streets to become president,

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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became a champion of the country's

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Five years after leaving office he is accused of taking bribes

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Last week he was detained for questioning by prosecutors.

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Now new president and close ally, Dilma Rousseff, has made

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Lula her chief of staff, a post that offers him some

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Their opponents say it is a barely concealed attempt

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This was a pro-Lula rally in Sao Paulo where his followers

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chanted that the judge leading the corruption probe

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is trying to engineer a coup, that Brazil's elites are targeting

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TRANSLATION: This judge is corrupt and illegal and we are here today

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But for all the fervour, the government has lost some

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of its lustre, even among supporters because the country is in the midst

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Brazil is facing a political crisis, an economic crisis, a health crisis

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Moves are gathering pace to impeach President Rousseff,

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The country that overtook Britain to become the world's sixth largest

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economy is in a political firestorm that has gone right

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The actions of its beleaguered president have fuelled

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England's cricketers have secured an historic victory over

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South Africa at the T20 World Cup in India.

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England had been set an unlikely target of 230 to win,

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but secured victory with just two balls to spare.

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It was the highest successful run chase at a T20 World Cup,

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A year ago the Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton had

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But today, she exceeded all expectations at one of horse

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racing's greatest festivals at Cheltenham, crossing

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the finishing line a respectable fifth in an amateur race.

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Bookies were taking bets she wouldn't finish.

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Earlier, the Gold Cup was won by favourite Don Cossack.

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Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports.

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The first bumpy ride of Victoria Pendleton's day -

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That slightly nervous laugh said it all.

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Some bookies felt she was more likely to fall off than get round,

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and she set off on Pacha Du Polder with understandable caution.

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She was in last place as they leapt the first,

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but as the race wore on she grew in confidence and pace,

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surging through the pack to finish a very creditable fifth.

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The smile and the thumbs up said it all, the doubters silenced

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No fairy tale win then, but that was some performance

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After all the hype, how she's proved her critics wrong.

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If it had been another two furlongs I reckon I could have

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got in the mix, but it happened so quickly.

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It was almost like my first race all over again,

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But the biggest prize of the day was the Gold Cup.

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Home hopes lay with Cue Card, but three out they came crashing

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Both horse and jockey, thankfully unhurt.

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But that left the way clear for favourite Don Cossack to deliver

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yet another victory here for Ireland.

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Delight for jockey Bryan Cooper and for trainer Gordon Elliott,

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as Cheltenham saluted its heroes, but this was a day not just

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about the winning but about the taking part.

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Let's return to our main story tonight,

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the resignation of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith,

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and speak again to our political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Downing

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The timing of the resignation, what do you make of it? Well in politics,

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as in so many things, timing is very often all. This isn't just a huge

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slap in the face for the government, especially George Osborne, 48 hours

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after the budget, but the Conservative powers are embroiled in

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very difficult internal arguments over the campaign over whether or

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not we should leave the European Union or not. Iain Duncan Smith was

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none of the most prominent faces in the campaign to exit the EU and many

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people in the Cabinet and Conservative Party are suggesting

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that his departure has got more to do with the fact that he wants to

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walk out of the EU than the fact that he had become unhappy about

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policies that his own department had been designing. But whichever of

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those is true, whether it is about the EU or not, this throws petrol

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onto the fiery argument is taking place in the Tory party over the

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European Union campaign and it is a gift for the Labour Party. In the

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last few minutes Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of being in

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disarray and they've even called on George Osborne to resign. A

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government source said that is ridiculous but it is difficult

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because the man who was at the forefront of designing and fronting

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up many of the government's cuts has said that many of them have now gone

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too far. Thank you for joining us. That's it.

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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