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Heading home - Team GB fly out of Rio tonight,

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as they celebrate their most successful Games in

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After 19 days of competition, a spectacular Closing Ceremony

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And a place in history for Team GB's athletes, who will bring

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home 67 medals - more than they won in London.

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Fly home, medals in our pockets that make us the most

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But away from the Games, the city's violence has continued.

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We'll be asking what Rio's legacy will be.

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Trying to stop the spread of extremism in jails.

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The Government announces plans for England and Wales

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to segregate the most dangerous Islamist prisoners.

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United we stand - The leaders of France,

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Germany and Italy take to a warship to say the European Union

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Labour's leadership contest gets under way in earnest,

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as almost 650,000 ballot papers are sent out to party members.

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And the race for the energy source critics call extreme oil.

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We have a special report from Canada.

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And in Sportsday on BBC News, after Manchester City's Joe Hart

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was left out again, England manager, Sam Allardyce, has expressed

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Team GB will fly home tonight - on board flight BA 2016 -

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a British Airways plane with a golden nose, after their most

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They finished in second place behind the United States with 67 medals,

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beating their London 2012 medal haul.

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Following their sporting success, Downing Street has confirmed

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there will be no formal cap on the number of athletes

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and coaches who can be recognised in the New Year Honours.

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The Rio Games came to a spectacular close last night, as Brazil handed

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over the baton to the next hosts, Tokyo.

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From Rio here's our sports editor, Dan Roan.

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Rio certainly went out with a bang. Its farewell to the Olympics as

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spectacular as the sport which prescreeded it. Team GB lit up these

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Games, turning up for last night's Closing Ceremony in red, white and

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blue flashing shoes. They'd earned the right to party, after their best

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Olympics for more than a century. This evening, leaving here, having

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exceeded all expectations. To be able to fly home, the medals in our

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pockets that make us the most successful team ever, it's just

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something that we couldn't have predicted. When we flew out, we had

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hoped it, dreamed it. But the fact it's happened is amazing for

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everyone. Team GB surpassed their record breaking performance at

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London 2012, the first of their remarkable haul of 67 medals was won

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by Adam Peaty and the swimmer says they can do even better in Tokyo in

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four years. The swimming team now is very young, so we're only going to

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get stronger than this. Now I'm going to work hard to make sure we

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can carry the momentum as well as we've done now. This evening members

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of Team GB were in high spirits at Rio airport, as they prepared to fly

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home. As in 2012, they'll return to a heroes' welcome. They received

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congratulations today from the Queen and many athletes are thought to be

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in line for honours in recognition of their achievements. The man who

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led the team here in Rio told me that Tokyo would be tougher still.

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You'll have a stronger Japanese team on home turf, compared to Brazil,

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across more sports. You'll have China, for various reasons,

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political reasons, wanting to do really well on their doorstep in

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Japan. We know they'll be strong. This squad is a developmental team

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going through to that. You'll have a full Russian delegation and

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resurgent Australia. It will be tougher. But we have the talent

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there. Rio officially handed over to Tokyo

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last night. Japan's Prime Minister making a surprise appearance,

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disguised as popular video game character Super Mario. For British

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sport the task of achieving another glorious Games begins now. Dan Roan,

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BBC News, Rio. The swimwear firm, Speedo USA,

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has ended its sponsorship deal with the American swimming star,

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Ryan Lochte, after the athlete lied about being robbed at gunpoint

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during a drunken night out in Rio. Lochte has made several apologies,

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but three companies have now ended their sponsorship

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agreements with him. Speedo said it could not condone

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the swimmer's actions and will instead donate part

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of his fee to charity. Well, Rio 2016 ended spectacularly,

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but the Games were certainly not without their problems -

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played out against a backdrop of huge economic turmoil,

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political unrest as well as anger from many at the amount

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of money spent on them. And the big question -

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as always with the Olympics - what will their legacy be

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for the host country? Our Brazil correspondent,

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Wyre Davies, reports. As Rio said goodbye to the Olympics,

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a moment to take it all in. For the last two weeks,

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the city has put its many problems to one side,

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but they're problems and divisions that can't simply be discarded

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and forgotten about. The Olympic champion

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in your home country... The power of sport as a force

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for change was typified by Rafaela Silva, Brazil's first

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gold of the games. A woman from one of Rio's

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toughest neighbourhoods, amazed by her own achievement

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and optimistic about what it meant. TRANSLATION: If my medal can help

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persuade people that the Games are good for Brazil,

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they're not always of money and they have improved

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the image of the country, Rio certainly felt like a more

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confident, safer place during the Olympics,

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but this is what it took to guarantee the security

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of tourists and athletes. There have been almost

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unprecedented levels of security Literally thousands of heavily armed

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soldiers on the streets. While they've kept many parts of Rio

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safe for the last two weeks, elsewhere, things have

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continued just as normal. Almost every day, before

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and during the Games, there were heavy shootouts

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between police and the gangs that It was particularly bad here in this

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sprawling community within sight A community almost untouched

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by the Games. TRANSLATION: For us,

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they may as well have taken place We didn't see any investment or any

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improvement in the community. But the Olympics did serve

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as a catalyst to transform some New infrastructure and previously

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no-go areas revitalised, already Brazil and Rio in particular bet

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on the cycle of events as a way of pushing forward a certain model

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of development, a certain model I don't think it benefitted

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the majority of the population. There are challenges ahead, not

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least the forthcoming Paralympics. City and state coffers are almost

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bare, but the so-called marvellous Staging the Olympics was by no means

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easy for Brazil at times. What impact will their experience

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have on the Olympic movement? I think if you'd told organisers at

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the IOC and locally three weeks ago how Rio 2016 would pass off, they

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would certainly have accepted that. They'd have settled for it. In the

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immediate term, the Olympic movement will be feeling great relief, as

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Wyre said in his report. These were the first Games to be staged in

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South America, they took place in a country going through political

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upheaval, economic recession. There were concerns over security, over

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Zika, over pollution, given all that, there's a sense that Rio

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really got away with it. It could have been a great deal worse than it

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was. Having said all that, there were difficulties, of course,

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unforeseen costs, which have impacted the Paralympics, which

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begin here in around two weeks. They've had to be pared back. There

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was trouble with security, empty seats as well. Because of that all,

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Rio could be a water shed moment. It will force the IOC to consider

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whether or not the Games going forward have to be cheaper, smaller,

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less of a burden, certainly when it comes to places like this. There's

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no sign of that, after all, five new sports have just been added to the

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programme for Tokyo 2020. But maybe the IOC will have to decide whether

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or not it wants to be a little less ambitious, go to places which

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represent less of a risk. I think also, given the great doping scandal

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that dominated the build up to the Games, the IOC have to work out how

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to restore faith and trust in the integrity of their sports. Despite

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all of those concerns going forward, and the questions the IOC have to

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grapple with, one thing's certain - for millions watching around the

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world on television, Rio 2016 will always be associated with a

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spectacular back drop and captivating sport. It will be

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particularly fondly remembered back in Britain, of course. Dan Roan, in

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Rio, thank you. The Justice Secretary, Liz Truss,

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says measures to tackle the growing threat of Islamist extremism

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in jails in England and Wales The Government has announced plans

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to segregate what it calls the most dangerous Islamist

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prisoners from other inmates, in a bid to stop the

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spread of extremism. But prison reformers say

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there should also be a focus on safeguarding vulnerable inmates

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at risk of being radicalised. Among the most infamous Islamist

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extremists now incarcerated in Britain are Anjem Syed Choudary,

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found guilty last month of supporting so-called

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Islamic State, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, who led a failed Al-Qaeda plot

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to blow up multiple passenger jets over the Atlantic,

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and the 21 July bombers, who tried to attack London

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two weeks after 7/7. They're just a few of

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the men who could spread We know it happens, men

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who converted in jail include Richard Reid,

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the shoebomber, and Nathan Cuffy, who unknowingly supplied the gun

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for a failed Islamic State The new Justice Secretary told me

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it was now time to keep the worst There is a risk there of those

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highly subversive individuals being able to collaborate

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with each other. That's why we're talking

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about a number of small units rather than a single,

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larger unit, which has been tried in the past,

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and where there have The idea is to create a set of

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prisons, within prisons, special units inside high security

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jails like Belmarsh, where a few of the worst extremists

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can be kept completely isolated from the rest of the

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prison population. Jamal, not his real name,

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spent two years in prisons, including Belmarsh, where he saw

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young, violent criminals and drug dealers being quickly radicalised

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by a hard core of extremists. There is an Islamic movement

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in prison and it's not an Islamic movement based on the beautiful

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virtues of Islam, no, it's an Islamic movement based

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upon bullying and based upon protection and

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based upon violence. Dal Babu, previously a senior London

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police officer an a Muslim, warns special units for extremists

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are a risky solution. The danger is if you put

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people into one unit, The danger is these individuals

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want to become the individuals that It's very dangerous that we have

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these individuals there. Prisons are full of vulnerable

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people. We want to try and ensure that those

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vulnerable people do not get seduced Beyond the proposed special units,

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all prison staff will get further But there are no plans to set up

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special units in Scottish prisons, where Islamist extremism is not seen

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as a major problem. A brief look at some of the day's

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other news stories. The former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning

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has pleaded guilty to a series of child sex offences dating back

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as far as 1969. The 75-year-old -

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who was one of the original line-up of presenters -

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admitted abusing 11 boys but denied The go-ahead has been given

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for a ?7 million research project in the UK to help identify

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Alzheimers disease It's thought the brain changes

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for several years before the more obvious signs

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of the disease become apparent. A salvage team hopes to re-float

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the stranded oil rig It's been two weeks since the huge

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structure ran aground off Two tugs will try to tow it clear,

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but the success of the operation may depend on how much damage the rig

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has sustained below the water. The leaders of Germany,

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France and Italy have stressed the European Union will prosper

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in spite of the Brexit vote. The German Chancellor,

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Angela Merkel, the French President, Francois Hollande and the Italian

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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi travelled first to an island off

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the coast of Naples. Our correspondent

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James Reynolds reports. This continent's most powerful

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leaders may be losing the UK, but they want to show that the idea

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of a united Europe Matteo Renzi, Angela Merkel

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and Francois Hollande flew This is where the idea

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of a united Europe was born. TRANSLATION: Many people felt that

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after Brexit, Europe We respect the choice that has been

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made by the British people, but, at the same time,

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we want to be able to write The trip has set off

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reflection in others. The President of the European

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Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, calls the creation of borders

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the worst invention For the three leaders,

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this trip to the islands It's their way of rediscovering

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and re-dedicating themselves Britain may be leaving,

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but these countries want to show There was even a subliminal message

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for anyone who doubts them. TRANSLATION: We,

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ourselves, have to commit. And that's by committing more

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that we will be able to take Europe towards a future

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of unity and cohesion. The three will join the rest

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of Europe's leaders next month in Bratislava to discuss

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what the union might look James Reynolds, BBC News,

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off the coast of Ventotene. The German government is advising

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citizens to stockpile food and water Citizens are advised to store enough

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food to last them 10 days. Germany has been on a state of alert

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after a series of deadly attacks. This all sounds very radical? It

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does. In effect, Sophie, for the first time since the end of the Cold

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War, German citizens are being told to prepare themselves for the worst.

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On Wednesday, Angela Merkel and her Cabinet are expected to rubber-stamp

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a new civil emergency plan. That is expected to contain the

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recommendation that households should ensure they have adequate

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water supplies and enough food to last them for ten days in the event

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of some kind of national emergency. It is not yet published, but already

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it is causing huge controversy here in Germany, with opposition MPs

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accusing the government of scaremongering. The government, for

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their part, say this plan has been a long time coming. They say they have

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been looking at this for a number of years. Nevertheless, its emergence

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now could not have come at a more sensitive time. It is a month or so

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since what are thought to have been the first IS terror attacks here on

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German soil. Domestic security is dominating unofficial campaigning

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ahead of next year's general election. The company feels jittery

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-- Countryfile 's jittery and Angela Merkel has a huge task ahead of her

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to persuade Germans she can keep it safe.

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Turkey has launched artillery strikes on Kurdish fighters

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and Islamic State militants in northern Syria after it vowed

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to fight so-called Islamic State and cleanse the group

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It comes after yesterday's suicide bombing during a wedding party

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in the south of the country, close to the border with Syria.

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Officials have now confirmed that 54 people died -

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Our Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen reports.

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They waited in turn to pay tribute, as their community tries in vain

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of a suicide bomber who struck here on Saturday, killing

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The force of the blast is still clear, and so too the

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remnants of the bomb, fertiliser explosive designed

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The target, the wedding party of this couple.

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It's a neighbourhood of Gaziantep that once felt safe, where

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children play freely and rarely thought of danger.

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22 of the victims were under 14, the youngest was just four.

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All those here have lost somebody, friends or relatives.

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Grief unites them and it will forever mark the father whose

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TRANSLATION: I went through all the bodies and then I found my son.

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Then I fainted and woke up in hospital.

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May God spare everyone from such pain and curse those who did this.

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The signs point to so-called Islamic State.

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The government says it is unsure if the bomber was

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Yet again, Turks are asking why terror keeps striking here.

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The answer is five years of Syria's war that has

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fostered IS and replaced childhood innocence with murder, in which life

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has almost lost its value, so often is it taken.

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It's not only destroying Syria, but has also dragged Turkey

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into a conflict seemingly without end.

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These are said to be Syrian rebel fighters,

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They are here preparing an imminent offensive

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against the IS-held province of Jarablus.

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Turkey is backing it to drive IS and its

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own enemy, the Syrian Kurds, back from the border.

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We met one of the rebels waiting for the green light.

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He tells me the 1500 fighters will be given Turkish artillery

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The Kurds want to attack there too, he says,

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We are ready to die for this, to give our

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Victims of the war across the border that

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has reduced lives to numbers and left this country asking

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The first of around 650,000 ballot papers have been sent out today

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to people who can vote in the Labour leadership contest.

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Party members will get a say, along with those belonging to unions

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and almost 130,000 registered supporters.

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Our political correspondent Vicki Young's report contains

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He's getting backing from some senior Labour figures,

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but Owen Smith needs to persuade hundreds of thousands of signed-up

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supporters that he'd do a better job than Jeremy Corbyn.

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So today he made a bold promise, to put them

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And he did all he could to distance himself from the years

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when Tony Blair took New Labour into power.

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The leadership of our party then was more interested in good

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relations with the banks, big business and the media,

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than with staying in touch with our grassroots.

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And he said the era where Labour members were seen

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I will bind myself to the decisions made by Conference on party policy.

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I will not seek to overturn it, whatever my views, but I will seek

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This evening, Jeremy Corbyn joined a team of campaigners in south

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Our party, 500,000 members and rising, is part of the community

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And being part of the community in every part of this

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country means that we fight lots of local campaigns.

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And every time you win a local campaign on anything,

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They say he's inspiring people to join the party all over the UK,

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and theyre confident he'll still be leading Labour at the end of

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Labour Party membership is now at its highest since 1979.

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When Tony Blair won his landslide victory, membership

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That nearly halved after the Iraq war in 2003.

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And the slump continued until Ed Miliband took over in 2010.

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But the biggest rise has come under Jeremy Corbyn.

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Now there are more than 500,000 full members.

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After rows about the rules, not all those new members can

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Other supporters and trades unionists can, so 750,000 people

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The recent surge in those signing up to support Labour has been

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remarkable, and the party now has more members than any other

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But this leadership contest has come about because of deep divisions over

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the direction the party should go in next.

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Bringing the two sides together will not be easy.

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Hundreds of people have observed a minute silence at Shaw in West

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Sussex to mark the first anniversary of a crash at an airshow that killed

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11 people. A vintage jet came down on a main road outside the show when

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a manoeuvre went wrong. An air accident report is not expected to

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published until the autumn. There has been heavy flooding in the

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Yorkshire Dales. The manager of the White Star Cave said he had not seen

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such bad conditions for 30 years. A number of roads in North Yorkshire

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have been flooded. The first Islamist militant

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to be brought before the International Criminal Court

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in The Hague has pleaded guilty Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted

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leading rebel forces who demolished mausoleums

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in Timbuktu in Mali in 2012. The rise in Islamic extremism has

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led to the destruction of many irreplaceable cultural monuments

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in Afghanistan, Syria, Our world affairs editor,

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John Simpson, reports The glamorous sounding city of

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Timbuktu was once a centre of culture rivalling medieval Europe.

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Its buildings and shrines among the glories of Africa. Then, in 2012,

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Al-Qaeda captured it and, with the help of locals. This was the result.

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The court will now proceed. Now there is a reckoning. Ahmad al-Faqi

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Al Mahdi, the man in charge of the destruction, admitted his guilt

:25:20.:25:24.

today. He advised Muslims everywhere not to get involved in the kind of

:25:25.:25:30.

thing he had done, because it harm humanity in general. Do you

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understand the crime you are admitting can carry a maximum term

:25:37.:25:41.

of 30 years? There is a pattern to this. Back in 2001, the Taliban,

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then ruling Afghanistan, blew up huge statues. 1500 years of history

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gone. Afghanistan was a kind of black hole, where the most extreme

:25:58.:26:03.

versions of Islam could take charge. By destroying cultural monuments

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which the world reveres, extremists demonstrate how ferocious they are

:26:08.:26:11.

capable of being. This is Palmieri, in Syria, controlled until last May

:26:12.:26:17.

by so-called Islamic State. Then, the Russians chased them out. In the

:26:18.:26:28.

arena where IS executed prisoners, a Russian orchestra played. If it

:26:29.:26:31.

wasn't for the Russians, this beautiful place would still be under

:26:32.:26:35.

the control of Islamic State. They may well be using it for their

:26:36.:26:41.

atrocities still. Extremism has done terrible cultural damage. In Iraq,

:26:42.:26:46.

when IS volunteers stormed museums in Mosul, in 2014, they smashed

:26:47.:26:53.

anything they believed was idolatrous. Now it is being pushed

:26:54.:26:59.

back everywhere. Timbuktu is free of extremism as well now. In court

:27:00.:27:05.

today, the prosecutor explained why these cultural things matter. They

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are relics of a great chapter in humankind's intellectual and

:27:13.:27:14.

spiritual development on the continent. That is what gave

:27:15.:27:21.

Timbuktu its standing in the world. Now, at last, Timbuktu can rebuild

:27:22.:27:24.

and replace what it has lost. It's one of the biggest energy

:27:25.:27:27.

projects in the world. In Canada, around two million

:27:28.:27:30.

barrels of oil are being produced every day from what are called tar

:27:31.:27:33.

sand deposits beneath They stretch over a vast area

:27:34.:27:35.

the size of Greece. Canada is determined to extract

:27:36.:27:40.

as much oil as it can from beneath the wilderness,

:27:41.:27:42.

but the extraction process produces huge amounts

:27:43.:27:44.

of greenhouse gas emissions. And environmentalists say such plans

:27:45.:27:49.

fly in the face of Canada's From Alberta, Stephen

:27:50.:27:52.

Sackur has this report. In the remote north of Alberta

:27:53.:27:58.

is a land of bears, We're kind of in the southern end

:27:59.:28:01.

of the Athabasca oil sand deposit and we're heading

:28:02.:28:08.

to our Christian Lake facility. This is what a state-of-the-art tar

:28:09.:28:11.

sands oil field looks like. 400 metres down is a rich seam

:28:12.:28:16.

of thick bitumen oil that has It is high energy, high

:28:17.:28:19.

emission oil production. If we look out to the next number

:28:20.:28:26.

of decades, oil is still going to be We're still going to need

:28:27.:28:36.

renewables, we're going to need Fort McMurray is Canada's

:28:37.:28:41.

tar sands boom town. But in May, whole neighbourhoods

:28:42.:28:46.

were incinerated in a ferocious Hannah used to live in a neat,

:28:47.:28:48.

two bedroom house. The Fort McMurray fire fuelled

:28:49.:29:01.

a fierce argument. Is man-made climate change making

:29:02.:29:09.

natural disasters like wildfires And, if it is, will Canada

:29:10.:29:11.

turn its back on its vast Get real - they can't walk away

:29:12.:29:18.

from this massive potential It's not just Greenpeace

:29:19.:29:24.

that is saying this. It's organisations like

:29:25.:29:30.

the International Energy Agency that are saying that three quarters

:29:31.:29:34.

of all remaining fossil fuel reserves need to

:29:35.:29:36.

remain in the ground. Climate change will test our

:29:37.:29:39.

intelligence, our Canada has a new Prime Minister,

:29:40.:29:40.

Justin Trudeau. He went to the UN to sign

:29:41.:29:47.

the Paris Climate Accord. Canada is now committed

:29:48.:29:52.

to cutting greenhouse gas But big oil brings

:29:53.:29:54.

Canada in big money. You see it in Calgary,

:29:55.:30:03.

where the oil companies Canada's politicians won't halt

:30:04.:30:05.

the tar sands oil rush, even if it means allowing the industry

:30:06.:30:13.

to increase its emissions In the short to medium term,

:30:14.:30:15.

20% of Canadian GDP relies That's the key phrase,

:30:16.:30:20.

isn't it? Do you worry that here in Alberta

:30:21.:30:26.

you are a part of a problem which is going to cost Canada dear,

:30:27.:30:34.

in terms of international No, I think what we're doing

:30:35.:30:36.

in Alberta is we've taken the first steps on the continent,

:30:37.:30:41.

and in the industrialised world, to recognise that we have a problem

:30:42.:30:44.

and to take action on it. We are leaders in that way

:30:45.:30:48.

and I will make no apologies for it. Canada doesn't want to be seen

:30:49.:30:52.

as one of the world's But if it insists on pumping out

:30:53.:30:55.

every drop of tar sands oil, And you can see more on Canada's

:30:56.:31:02.

search for oil on Hardtalk on the BBC News Channel

:31:03.:31:12.

tomorrow evening at 8:30. Newsnight is coming up

:31:13.:31:15.

on BBC Two - here's Kirsty. Tonight, the Labour leadership

:31:16.:31:26.

ballot papers are out. Does the mainstream media give Jeremy Corbyn

:31:27.:31:30.

a fair crack of the whip away whipping? And a conversation with a

:31:31.:31:34.

legendary performer and producer, Quincy Jones. Join me now on BBC

:31:35.:31:36.

Two.

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