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A serving Royal Marine has been charged with terrorism offences,

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Kieran Maxwell is also accused of storing weapons and ammunition.

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Anti-personnel mines and a rocket were among the weapons found

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by police in England and Northern Ireland.

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The charges follow a police investigation into dissident

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republican activity in Northern Ireland.

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Some of England's most senior medical staff call on junior doctors

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to call off their strike plans, warning patients could be harmed.

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We are concerned that a series of strikes,

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of five days in length, will actually impact on patient well

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The Bishop of Grantham becomes the first bishop in the Church

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of England to reveal he's gay and in a relationship.

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Samsung recalls its brand new smartphone, after some

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new owners report that the handsets have exploded or caught on fire.

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And the extraordinary sounds and images from Jupiter,

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as NASA releases spectacular new footage that's never

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Johanna Konta sails through to the last 16 of the US Open,

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beating Belinda Bencic in straight sets.

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Kyle Edmund will hope to join her later.

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A serving Royal Marine has been charged with a series of terrorism

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30-year-old Ciaran Maxwell is also accused of storing

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ammunition and weapons - including an improvised rocket

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and anti-personnel mines - hiding them at locations in England

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The charges follow a police investigation into dissident

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Our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford, has more.

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Still a serving Royal Marine, Kieran Maxwell was driven into court

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in a heavily reinforced police van, after being charged with building

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home-made bombs and acquiring weapons and ammunition,

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The hearing was brief, lasting barely three minutes.

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And from the dock, Kieran Maxwell, who grew up in Northern Ireland,

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confirmed his name and home address in Exminster in Devon.

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He's been charged under the Terrorism Act with,

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among other things, purchasing chemicals and components,

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manufacturing explosives, and constructing explosive devices,

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and then hiding the devices, along with some weapons

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and a library of terrorist documents.

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This police investigation followed the discoveries in March and May

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near Larne in Northern Ireland of several barrels containing pipe

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bombs, antipersonnel mines, timing devices, a handgun

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and ammunition, all secreted in two hides.

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After a three-month operation, 30-year-old Kieran Maxwell,

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who was based at the Royal Marines Norton Manor camp in Somerset,

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Since then, police have made further searches in Northern Ireland

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and at these woods in Devon, where he is accused of having built

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more hides to store documents and electrical components.

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Unusually, Kieran Maxwell is not being taken to prison,

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but back to the police station, while detectives continue

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He'll return here to court on Monday.

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This is a very rare case in which a current member

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of the Armed Forces, from an elite unit no less,

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Servicemen who come from Northern Ireland go

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The intriguing thing about this case, is that when those weapons

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dumps were originally found in Northern Ireland, earlier this year,

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the PSNI made it quite clear they were investigating suspected

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dissident republicanism. Several months on that has ultimately led to

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a Royal Marine appearing here this afternoon on charges of terrorism.

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Daniel Sanford, thank you. Some of the most senior members

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of the medical profession have urged junior doctors in England to cancel

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plans for a series of five-day strikes between now and Christmas,

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in protest at the Government's The Academy of Medical Royal

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Colleges said the action was not proportionate and

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would harm patients. The doctors' union, the BMA, says it

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has been left with no choice. Our health editor,

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Hugh Pym, reports. For each and every doctor in

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England, this bitter dispute has raised difficult choices. The

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central question: Should junior doctors be stepping up their strike?

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They say we stand together. But is that really the case? Leaders of the

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profession, who together form the acam my of medical royal colleges,

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acknowledge their junior colleagues concerns about new conditions, but

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they say the action is going too far. Patient safety and well being

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is paramount that. Is why we, as doctors and surgeons, went into the

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medical profession. We are here to look after patients. We are

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concerned that a series of strikes of five days in length will actually

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impact on patient well being and their care. But two out of the 20

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medical college leaders didn't agree with the sament. One of them told me

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what she thought of the proposed strikes. We are not taking sides in

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this argument. We're here to support our members and to speak on behalf

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of children. So do you think it is a reasonable action to take? I think

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it's a decision for every individual doctor to make. And I know very well

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that each and every one of our members will have thought long and

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hard about whether or not they will strike or they will not strike. On

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the doctors' agenda some items have been resolved in recent months, such

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as preventing excessive hours and protecting whistle-blowers. But they

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say issues like weekend pay and provisions for women and part-time

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workers are not resolved. The British Medical Association says the

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strikes could be halted if the Government stopped imposing a new

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contract, which had been rejected by members. Junior doctors planning to

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strike say they have no alternative but to go ahead with the walkout. We

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feel that we've had no choice but to escalate and up the ante. Weave had

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a day of -- we've had a day of strikes, two days of strikes and

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it's not worked. Out of a desperate act, we've had to do five days.

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Another doctor, though, told us of his doubts about the BMA's right to

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organise such extensive action. The BMA seems to be committed to further

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industrial action and a lengthy process of industrial action. I did

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not vote for that process, when I voted to reject the contract. My

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preference would be to reballot members about a lengthy process of

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further industrial action. The Patients' Association said with

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thousands of operations set to be postponed, the scale of the action

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was unforgiveable. Late today, organisations, representing

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hospitals and other trusts in England, NHS providers and the NHS

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confederation have called on the BMA to suspend the strikes, arguing

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they'll cause major disruption and risk patient safety. The debate on

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the merits of this dispute across the health world is certainly

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intensifying. Hugh Pym, BBC News. A Church of England bishop

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has become the first to reveal that he is gay

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and in a relationship. The Right Reverend Nicholas

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Chamberlain, who is bishop of Grantham, made the disclosure

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tonight in an interview Caroline Hawley joins

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us from the Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence,

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Lambeth Palace. Why has he chosen to

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make this public now? Well, Nicholas Chamberlain said it

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wasn't his decision to make what he called "a big thing" about coming

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out. He was essentially pushed into it because a Sunday newspaper was

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planning to reveal his sexuality. Now he told the Guardian that

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everyone involved in his appointment last year knew that he was gay, that

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he is in a committed, long-term relationship and that he is abiding

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by church guide lines that bishops have to be celibate. He has made it

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public now, what's the reaction been so far? He said himself that it

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would cause ripples. As you know the issue of sexuality has been devicive

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both in the Church of England and even more so the worldwide Anglican

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communion in. Lambeth Palace the Archbishop said tonight that he was

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appointed on the basis of his skills and that his sexuality was

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completely irrelevant to his office. Thank you.

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Police in Pakistan say they believe that a British woman, who died

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in Pakistan in a so-called honour killing, was murdered by her father

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They also say Samia Shahid, who was 28 and from Bradford,

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Mrs Shahid had divorced and remarried in the UK

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Our Pakistan correspondent, Shaimaa Khalil, reports.

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A bride's happiness on her wedding day but it was this marriage

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She came to this village in July because she was told her father

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was ill but this was far from the truth.

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Findings are that two persons, the girl's father and her

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ex-husband, they have been charged with murder.

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There were also reports of rape, that she was raped.

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We took the suspect for DNA test, Shakeel, and he later

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confessed that he did rape her before she was murdered.

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We understand from the police that a day before she was meant to leave

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Pakistan, Samia Shahid was in this house, which belonged

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We don't know why she was there but the police tell us they have

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enough evidence to show that Shakeel had raped Samia

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Samia was once married to her cousin in Pakistan before

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she returned to the UK, filed for divorce and got married

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to her second husband, Mukhtar Kazim.

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Initially her father said she had died of a heart attack

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but her second husband dismissed the claims and accused the family

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of killing her because they did not approve of their marriage.

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The police say they are now seeking the extradition of Samia's mother

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and sister from the UK for questioning in relation

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Her father and ex-husband had appeared in court a number of times

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The police will now present the final report to the court

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and a date will be decided on when the two men will be indicted

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Just two weeks after it was launched, Samsung

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is recalling its latest flagship smartphone because a battery fault

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More than two million of the Galaxy Note Sevens have

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already been sold around the world, and the phone was due to be

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This report from our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones,

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At Europe's biggest technology show, it's Samsung who makes the biggest

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noise. Its star product this year is the Galaxy Note 7. This supersize

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smartphone has won rave reviews in the US and Asia. It was due to be on

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sale in the UK today. Then this happened. This American man posted a

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video on YouTube claims his Galaxy Note 7 had caught fire. Becareful

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out there everyone rocking the new Note 7, it might catch fire. Samsung

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announced a radical move, the company was halting sales and

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recalling the Note 7. A battery issue was behind the fires, though

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just 35 out of 2. 5 million customers reported problems. 35 is a

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big number. I think that Samsung is doing the right thing and siding on

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caution and taking the devices off the market, figuring out why there's

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an issue with the cells in the battery, which seems to be the

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problem. This news could hardly come at a worse time for Samsung. Not

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only does it overshadow this launch, it comes just a week before its

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deadly rival has its own phone launch. At an event in California

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next week, Apple is expected to unveil the latest iPhone. The sales

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have disappointed lately, allowing Samsung to pull ahead in the

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smartphone race. Samsung is the biggest player in smartphones. In

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the first half of this year, it had just under 23% of the market. Its

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nearest rival, Apple had 13%, though a new iPhone might close the gap.

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But will such bad publicity affect the way the Samsung brand is seen?

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We asked some phone owners in Leicester? You don't know if it

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could happen again or to any other phone. Still put me off. I'm not

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opposed to Samsung products, until I read that their batteries are

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exploding. I think that would put me off purchasing it for sure. It

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probably wouldn't put me off. Large companies tend to put things right.

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In per Lynn today, Samsung continued to show off the capabilities of the

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Note 7, which even works under water. Customers will need

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re-assurance that they won't need to take drastic action with a phone

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that catches fire. The president of Uzbekistan,

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one of the world's most brutal and repressive

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dictators, has died. The news was confirmed

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by state television, after days of speculation

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that his 26-year rule was over. Islam Karimov came to power

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as a Communist leader, while Uzbekistan was still part

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of the Soviet Union. Under his rule, all political

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opposition and independent Human rights groups say as many

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as 12,000 political prisoners are in jail and many others

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have been murdered. There are even claims that

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some were boiled alive. Despite that, Uzbekistan became

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an ally of the United States and Britain, in the war

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in neighbouring Afghanistan. Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg

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reports from Moscow. He was the archetypal dictator,

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all-powerful, brutal. Islam Karimov ruled Uzbekistan

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with an iron fist for 27 years. He even put his own daughter

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under house arrest. But tonight, state television ended

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nearly a week of rumours "Our dear President has died",

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said the announcer, "a great Karimov created a police state,

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one of the most repressive He imprisoned thousands

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of opponents, and in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan,

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relied heavily on forced Labour. In 2005, President Karimov

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ordered his army to crush anti-government protests

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in the city of Andijan. It's believed hundreds

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of civilians were killed. Karimov blamed the violence

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on Islamic extremists. A former British ambassador

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to Uzbekistan believes the West Undoubtedly, the West turned

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a blind eye to human rights Initially, this was because of

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Afghanistan, the fact that the Americans and the Germans

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both had airbases in Uzbekistan, But the strategic position

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of Uzbekistan has led to the West really being shamefully neglectful

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of the human rights position in Uzbekistan, and at

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times lying about it. And President Karimov continued

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to be courted, both Russia, competing with China

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and America for influence The reason that Moscow and Beijing

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and the West will be watching very closely what happens next

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in Uzbekistan is not only to do If there's a power struggle over

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who succeeds President Karimov, the fear is that Islamist militants

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in region will exploit that to destabilise the whole

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of central Asia. But Karimov's critics say he used

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the fight against radical Islam as an excuse to

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crush all opposition. And yet, in Uzbekistan tonight,

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there is said to be After a quarter of a century

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in power, many Uzbeks have A brief look at some

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of the day's other news stories. A man has appeared in court charged

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with the deaths of a young boy and his aunt, who were

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killed in a police chase Joshua Dobby, who's 23,

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is accused of causing their deaths Makayah McDermott,

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who was 10, and 34-year-old Rosie Cooper were hit by a car,

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which was being pursued by officers The Green Party's only MP,

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Caroline Lucas, has been elected as co-leader of the party alongside

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Jonathan Bartley, their former The unusual job-share arrangement

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was announced in Birmingham, where the party's annual

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conference is under way. Environmentally damaging microbeads,

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used in bathroom products, look set to be banned from the end

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of next year. A Government announcement

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is expected tomorrow, following pressure

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from environmental groups. There's concern the tiny pieces

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of plastic are harmful to marine life and can enter

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the human food chain. The Irish Cabinet has

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agreed to appeal against the European Commission's ruling

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that Apple should pay the government Apple has said it is very

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confident the ruling will be Nasa has released spectacular images

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of Jupiter that have They were taken by the Juno space

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probe and capture detail that no other space mission has ever

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managed to photograph. Scientists say the mission will give

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an unparalleled understanding of the largest planet in our solar

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system, as our science correspondent, Rebecca

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Morelle, reports. For the first time, it's

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south pole is revealed, covered in swirling storms,

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many even bigger than the Earth. In the north, its thick

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atmosphere is far bluer At the top, you can see

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Jupiter's Northern Lights. It was captured as Nasa's Juno

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spacecraft flew through the charged particles that created

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the spectacular light show. The team's reaction

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was just amazement. They're coming from Jupiter,

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we're flying over the pole for the first time,

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and it's just jaw-dropping. You see these images

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from over the pole. You see looking down on the pole,

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for Jupiter, for Nasa's billion-dollar mission

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blasted off in 2011, the start of a 3 billion-kilometre

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voyage through the solar system. The spacecraft reached

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its destination in July, grabbed into orbit by

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Jupiter's gravitational pull. The fifth planet from the sun,

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it's located out past Mercury, Made of gas, it's vast,

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more than 1,000 Earths This mission will

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last for 20 months. It takes Juno around two weeks

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to orbit Jupiter, so it will only go round 37 times before it burns

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up in the atmosphere. It means for the first time we can

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peer into the thick clouds and study Jupiter's features,

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including the great red spot, an enormous storm that's been

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raging for centuries. And because Jupiter has hardly

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changed for billions of years, this mission could tell us

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about the origins This mission is the latest

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to inspire a new generation at And Nasa's now inviting people

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to head to the Juno From early November visitors can go

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onto the website and they vote for targets on Jupiter

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that they actually want to image. By popular demand, we get to see

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certain areas of Jupiter that have This is the first batch of images

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to be sent back to Earth. Their remarkable detail will now be

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pored over by scientists. They say Jupiter is like nothing

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they've ever seen before. The first hurricane to hit Florida

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for 11 years has passed through, inflicting severe damage in some

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areas. It brought wind of up to 130 kilometres per hour and lashing

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rain. It was later downgraded to a Tropical Storm Washi moved inland.

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-- as it moved inland. China is preparing to welcome

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world leaders for this The annual meeting brings together

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the world's biggest economies As Asia's rising power,

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China is hoping to use the occasion to present itself as a more

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dependable leader. The summit is being held

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in the city of Hangzhou, but as Carrie Gracie reports there's

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already growing mistrust between the summit's host

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and its guests. They believe the G20 summit marks

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another move in the advance TRANSLATION: We Hangzhou people

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are really happy and proud. We hope that through this G20

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summit our country will become richer and stronger and people's

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lives will be happy forever. But 2 million locals

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are following instructions and leaving town, to make way

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for 20 world leaders This host city is under

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security lockdown. Shops, schools, offices, closed,

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and factory chimneys for hundreds of miles,

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to shift pollution and ensure But behind the lavish welcome,

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all is not well. The immaculate facade conceals

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growing mistrust between China Its neighbours in Asia

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fear its territorial ambitions. The Europeans complain

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about not getting a level And the United States

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increasingly sees China 700 miles from Hangzhou,

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this is Hong Kong, the front line in what Beijing calls its war

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against Western values. It tells its people the West

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is plotting to bring China down. And in Hong Kong, it's now targeting

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the free speech left For that, he was detained

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in mainland China for months. His forced confession,

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a warning to others. China sent him back to Hong Kong

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to spy on his customers. But instead, he went public,

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and now lives under He says the G20 should

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talk less about business TRANSLATION: These countries should

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speak up for Hong Kongers, When world leaders visit China,

:24:31.:24:38.

they should talk more They have a moral

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responsibility to do so. In Hangzhou, China's

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warned its guests to avoid politics. And in these troubled times,

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rights are low on the summit agenda. But the war on Western values hangs

:24:55.:24:59.

over this gathering, undermining China's ambition

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for global leadership. The Paralympics get under

:25:05.:25:09.

way next week in Rio. Among those competing for Britain

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is Sean Highdale, who was once one of English football's most

:25:17.:25:19.

promising young talents. But a serious car accident

:25:20.:25:21.

left him with a brain injury and ended his hopes

:25:22.:25:25.

of being a professional footballer. Now eight years on,

:25:26.:25:28.

he will represent his country again. He's been talking to our sports

:25:29.:25:31.

correspondent, Andy Swiss. Soon as I could run,

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my dad had a football at my feet. As a youngster, he'd seemed

:25:38.:25:42.

destined for stardom. Sean Highdale first played

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for his home club Liverpool and then At 17 years old, the big time

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beckoned. But in 2008, he was

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involved in a car crash. Two of his friends died and Highdale

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was left in a coma with a bleed on the brain

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and a catalogue of injuries. My right knee was ruptured,

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broke my ankle, broke my neck. When I was in hospital,

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Jamie Carragher came in to see me. To see someone like him,

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he's one of my heroes, And then Steven Gerrard,

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my idol, I was all excited. So my mum and dad took me down

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and I had my dinner with them and had a good chat with Steven

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and then from that, it gives It was two years before

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I could even run. Highdale's professional

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career never recovered, but his skills have now found

:26:46.:26:47.

a new stage. The 7-a-side football in Rio

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is for athletes with cerebral palsy, or who have experienced a brain

:26:53.:26:55.

injury, as Highdale did. And the British team face some

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opening match against the hosts, It's going to be a sell-out,

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15,000 people. When my Liverpool days were over,

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I thought playing at the nice pitches, playing at the top

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and with the top people was gone. But now playing for Great Britain,

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brings it back for me and I am Back at the club which nurtured his

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talent, he told me Liverpool to Rio Bearing in mind everything you've

:27:20.:27:24.

been through, how would it be It's going to be a proud moment

:27:25.:27:29.

for myself and my family, to know It's going to be a very good

:27:30.:27:35.

experience and I can't wait to grab it with both hands and give it

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everything I've got. Nearly a decade on from the moment

:27:43.:27:45.

which changed his life, Tonight on Newsnight, an

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intervention from the Russian Deputy Prime Minister as he says Brexit

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will make Russia and Europe weaker. Now it's time for the

:28:12.:28:14.

news where you are.

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