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or Gatwick airports - will be announced by

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But the Government's official preference,

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on where to build a new runway, won't be put to a Parliamentary vote

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And the Prime Minister is to allow colleagues to speak out

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Some Conservative MPs are unhappy with the position.

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I think it's deeply disappointing if we fudge and delay this decision,

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so vital to Britain's interests, so vital to Britain's

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We'll have more on the latest indications that backing will be

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Following the killing of a mother and daughter in Lincolnshire,

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a 15-year-old girl has been convicted of murder.

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The rising price of fuel and clothing pushing inflation to its

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highest level for nearly two years. (

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50 years after the Aberfan disaster, the story of the community's long

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And we meet Bruce Springsteen to talk about life, music

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Riyad Mahrez scores a crucial opening goal, as Leicester City

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look to take a huge step towards the Champions League

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A final decision on whether to expand Heathrow or Gatwick

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will be announced by the Government next week.

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But that won't be the end of the matter, because the preference

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won't be put before MPs for at least another year.

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And in a highly unusual move, Cabinet ministers who are opposed

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will be allowed to speak publicly against the plan.

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That's being seen as a strong hint that backing will be given

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to Heathrow, which is opposed by the Foreign Secretary,

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Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, has the story.

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The long awaited choice of where and how to expand Britain's airport

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capacity has hung in the air for over a quarter of a century. It's

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vital to travel and trade in post Brexit Britain. Today the verdict -

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a new or extended runway at Heathrow or another at Gatwick has drawn

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closer. Demos have marched through the years. Parties are split and so

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is the Cabinet. Education Secretary Justine Greening, seen here shoulder

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to shoulder with Labour's Shadow Chancellor against Heathrow. And

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Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, another colleague whose

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opposition has been loud and clear. I will lie down with you in front of

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the bull dozers and stop the building, stop the construction of

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that third runway. Today the Prime Minister wrote to ministers setting

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out plans to reach a decision and keep her Cabinet from splitting. The

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time table looks like this: Next week a Cabinet committee meets to

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recommend a preferred option. Ministers will be free for a time to

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restate their known views and objections, but they can't actively

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campaign, which should avoid resignations. Then there will be

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public consultation. Then in winter 2017/18 Parliament votes on a final

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plan. Then it could take at least a decade before any runway is built.

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It's important to get the decision and get it right. We've been waiting

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for a long time for airport expansion in the UK. We need it.

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Post-Brexit, if we are going to be an open, trading nation, and looking

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at new alliances around the world, then we're certainly going to need

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more airport capacity. Have you changed your mind on Heathrow

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expansion? Senior ministers, including Boris Johnson, and his

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fellow opponent to Heathrow expansion, Justine Greening, were at

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Number Ten today to hear of the deal that's meant to keep them aboard.

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Not everyone likes. It If you are a minister, if you sit round the

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Cabinet table, as I've done in the past, you have to go along with the

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collective decisions or you don't have to be a minister. That's your

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choice. This fudge, this in-between world, that's unacceptable and it

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will do great damage to our economy. It's about internal Tory party

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political issues. We have divisions of opinion in our party as well. But

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we wouldn't have let that cause us to delay making a decision. Tonight,

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Boris Johnson seemed to suggest casually as ever, he still hoped the

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case against Heathrow might yet prevail.

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REPORTER: Are you going to lie in front of the bull dozers at

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Heathrow? It's unlikely there will be bull dozers. Take care. Either

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way there's a distance to travel before this long and hazardous

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political journey reaches its end. Navigating the course is tricky. The

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decision taking like the planning process deeply complex and none

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hurried. Even when a final decision is taken, there's every chance of a

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legal challenge from the likes of Greenpeace and a queue of local

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authorities. Those who have been press soing hard for a decision --

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pressing so hard for a decision will just have to wait, whether they like

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it or not. Thanks very much.

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A 15-year-old girl has been found guilty of murdering a woman

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and her daughter at Spalding in Lincolnshire, in what police said

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The girl - who can't be named because of her age -

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had admitted the manslaughter of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards

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but claimed to have been suffering from a mental disorder.

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Her teenage boyfriend had already admitted a charge of murder.

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They'll both be sentenced next month, as Danny Savage reports.

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Liz Edwards and her daughter Katie were found murdered in their home

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They were both well liked and adored each other.

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This crime is exceptional, though, because they were

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killed by two children, a boyfriend and girlfriend,

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drawn together by violence and extreme thoughts.

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She was today found guilty of murder and has never shown any remorse.

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What makes this case even more shocking is that these two were 14

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years of age when they planned, committed these callous,

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senseless and unprovoked attacks on Elizabeth and Katie.

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This case has left a number of lives in ruins.

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Liz Edwards, 49-years-old, and enjoying Christmas with the man

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she was hoping to marry.

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Friends say she was happy and content.

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I did notice a change in her, she was a lot happier in herself,

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she met somebody she could trust, who loved her kid as much

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as she did, which I thought was really sweet.

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Jane Blanford also knew Liz Edwards and she has strong views on the two

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14-year-olds who sat down to watch teen romance vampire films

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I've got nothing to say, he's just scum.

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I hope he gets locked up and they throw the key away,

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She could have had a bright future ahead of her.

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If this didn't happen, he could have had a bright future.

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I just see it that they've thrown everything all away.

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And they didn't just throw everything away on a whim,

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the two teenagers planned these murders in detail.

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They went and sat in a local McDonald's to plot.

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And on the night of the killings, the boy walked along

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this river in the dark to rendezvous with the girl,

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carrying kitchen knives to kill their victims.

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What happened next was described in court as cold, calculated,

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The girl told police she'd felt like murdering for quite

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a while and that a gun would have been easier,

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The murder weapon was shown to the jury, who were asked

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to consider if the girl was mentally ill.

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The personal possessions of the victims have now gone

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from an end terrace in a Lincolnshire cul-de-sac.

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The two killers of this mother and daughter cannot be named

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That may change when they're sentenced next month.

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The rate of inflation has risen to its highest level

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for nearly two years, with some experts warning it

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could be driven significantly higher by the fall in the value

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of the pound, following the vote to leave the EU.

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The Consumer Price Index hit 1% last month, driven by higher fuel

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The impact will start to be felt by millions of public sector

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workers and families on benefits and tax credits,

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as our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, explains.

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How much we pay to fill up with fuel.

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How much we pay for what we wear all have increased in price

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as inflation starts to march upward and it is just the start.

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I think it's fair to say that the trajectory for inflation

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from here is likely to the up side and that really is largely

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as the falls in the currency start to feed through to

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We've only just started seeing signs of that.

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Clothing prices were 6% higher last month as stores slowed

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Restaurant and hotel prices were also up by 0.7% after summer

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bargains ended and fuel crept up a little to 111 pence per litre

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compared to 110 pence last year, a small increase with larger rises

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Well, currently there's a bit of a double whammy,

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the main factor is the pound is so much weaker against the dollar,

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We buy our fuel in dollars, so that affects us and then,

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on the other side, Opec and Russia are talking about cutting back

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on production, so that puts the crude price up.

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Higher prices for fuel, higher prices for food are difficult

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for people to pay particularly if they are on lower incomes.

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They're also difficult politically, Theresa May knows there is one key

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equation in politics - if inflation is rising

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faster than incomes, then people feel worse off and that

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That political risk could crystallise as early as next year

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with predictions inflation could rise above 3%.

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With the Government also freezing benefits for people in work,

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the just managing classes could be hit hardest.

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Theresa May's made it clear that she wants to help those

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families that are just about managing or kind

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of struggling to get by, but actually that's exactly the kind

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of group of families that this freeze in working age benefits

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affects because it doesn't just affect out of work households

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claiming benefits, but in-work households claiming things

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As those benefits stay flat in cash terms, if prices rise,

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they're going to find it harder to afford things like food and fuel

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The head of Tesco in the UK said that food inflation was lethal

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A little inflation might be good for the economy,

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but too much and the consumer will soon start to feel

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President Obama has said he's confident that the battle

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to to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic

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Mr Obama was speaking on the second day of the military offensive,

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which has seen Iraqi security forces, backed by coalition air

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strikes, taking several villages in the south.

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In the north east, Kurdish forces - known as the Peshmerga -

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are also closing in on the city, which has a million inhabitants.

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Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, is travelling with them

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In the distance, Mosul, a city in waiting for deliverance

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It's the last bastion of IS in Iraq, but for how much longer?

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As the net closes on so-called Islamic State, the risks

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are increasing for those trapped down below in Mosul.

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There's the danger of coalition air strikes, IS could try to use

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the local population as human shields and if and when Iraqi forces

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make it inside the city, they could be caught

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Here's what IS wants you to see from inside Mosul, it's latest

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propaganda video paints a picture of normality.

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The message is, all's well, anyone daring to say

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"Thank God everything is fine", says this man.

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But some in Mosul are challenging the extremists.

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This video, from one activist network, shows a recent attack

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We made contact with the network's founder outside the city,

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for his own safety, we can't identify him.

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"We are divided into eight groups, each has their own plan

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Some will destroy communications equipment, some will

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We have assault rifles an rocket-propelled grenades,

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but we can't rise up until the security forces get

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Victory over the extremists can look like this.

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A year ago they were driven from Abu Mohammad village by air

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strikes and the Peshmerga, troops from Iraq's autonomous

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They took us to see what IS may have in store when the battle

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Here a homemade chemical weapon, chlorine gas attached

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to an improvised mortar, crude but potentially lethal.

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The fuses have already been removed.

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How many of these did you find?

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Some are fleeing areas near Mosul as troops advance.

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There could be many more to follow if they can find a way,

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but Kurdish sources told us IS executed 15 civilians in one

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village yesterday, just for trying to escape.

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Orla Guerin, BBC News, east of Mosul.

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Concerns about the leadership of the inquiry into historical child

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sexual abuse in England and Wales were reported to the Home Office

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in April more than three months before Dame Lowell Goddard resigned

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That was the evidence presented to the Home Affairs

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Dame Lowell was the third head to quit the inquiry.

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Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, has the story.

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The panel of experts running Britain's massive child abuse

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inquiry arriving for a grilling about its troubles, including

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the breakdown in relations between them and their former chair,

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Dame Lowell Goddard, followed by her resignation.

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It was clear from the beginning that Lowell Goddard really

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would have preferred to sit on her own without the assistance

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There were challenges. However...

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That's a very all-encompassing word "challenges" usually?

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Well, and indeed there were some fairly all-encompassing

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The panel had concerns about the qualities of leadership

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that were being evidenced through the course of the inquiry.

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Was she a nightmare to work, as some papers have suggested?

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I would prefer to say that there were challenges.

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Dame Lowell was appointed in February 2015,

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but the Home Office - which set up the inquiry -

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says it only became aware of problems on the 29th July this year.

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Lowell Goddard resigned six days later, so did the Home Office

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The answer to that is a categorical, no.

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There's nothing in the Home Office records to suggest any of my staff

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dealing with the inquiry were aware, until it was brought

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Except that, months earlier, a Home Office Director General,

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Mary Calam, was tipped off by the inquiry, but agreed

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One problem for the Home Office is that the inquiry

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There are victims' groups which are deeply concerned

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at the number of Home Office staff working on the inquiry and some

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of them are strong supporters of Dame Lowell Goddard.

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If the Government had intervened, it might have been accused

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of interfering, a new row, and the inquiry has had

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Perhaps that's why the Home Secretary gave this reason

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She was a long way from home and she decided to step down.

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..when giving evidence to MPs in September, without mentioning

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Today one member of the committee said they'd been misled.

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This week, the people of Aberfan in South Wales are having to relive

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the terrible events of half a century ago, when a mountain

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of coal waste collapsed onto the village school,

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claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.

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The scale of the disaster made headlines around the world,

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and people gave generously to support the community.

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But the families of Aberfan had to fight for decades to get justice,

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a fight that started on that Friday morning in October 1966.

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NEWS REEL: We are now returning to the newsroom.

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Disaster struck suddenly this morning at the small Welsh

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coalmining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil.

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At 9.15am, on the last morning of lessons before half-term,

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Pantglas Junior School was buried underneath a mountain of coal waste.

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The scale of the loss, 116 children and 28 adults,

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is still difficult to comprehend, half a century later.

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What happened at Aberfan was one of the greatest disasters

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in the modern history of Wales, indeed the modern history

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of the United Kingdom, and it's important to get one thing clear,

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It was a man made disaster, it was entirely foreseeable and it

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of negligence, arrogance and incompetence.

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One of those who survived the disaster, her life

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still overshadowed by the events of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick.

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She was eight at the time and lost her brother Carl and sister

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Marylyn on that day, she's since written a book

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We met in the memorial garden on the site of

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The ceiling of the school had come in and it landed on half

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the children and I had a radiator, that had come off the wall,

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I just remember looking at another friend of ours, who had literally

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tried to climb up through the roof, which was on top of the children,

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and she said, "I'm going to get help, I'm going

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I was whisked away in the ambulance to St Tydfil's Hospital

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and I remained there, isolated I feel, for over three months.

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And it was then, in the evening time, that I was told

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that my brother and my sister had died and all my friends had

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Within weeks of the disaster, an official tribunal was set

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up, under the Welsh Judge Edmund Davies,

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ARCHIVE: Well, I should hate to think that anybody

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would connect me with any whitewashing exercise.

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But getting straight answers from the National Coal Board,

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the public body which owned the mines, proved a very

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The Chairman of the National Coal Board was Lord Robens and he denied

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any responsibility for the disaster and kept on insisting that it

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ARCHIVE: We have our normal procedures for ensuring that pits

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are safe, but I'm bound to say that we have no proceedure that

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tells us that there is a spring deep down under a mountain.

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This is the site of the old Merthyr Vale Colliery, this is where

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the coal waste was put in trams and then sent across the valley

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and piled high on the mountains opposite and those tips used

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There was plenty of evidence, based on previous incidents,

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that piling this waste on wet mountain sides was an exceptionally

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risky and dangerous thing to do, and yet those warnings were ignored.

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By the time the report was published, the National Coal Board

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had been forced to admit that the disaster was foreseeable.

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It was blamed, unequivocally, for what had happened,

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but no-one was disciplined or sacked.

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I only wish that Lord Robens was here today.

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They should have been sent to jail, lost their jobs.

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But the battle was far from over, there was still coal tips

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above Aberfan and people, quite naturally, wanted them gone,

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but no-one was ready to pay - not the Government, not the Coal

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The families lobbied the Welsh Office in Cardiff

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demanding help, what they got instead from the Welsh Secretary,

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He wanted the local community to use their charity fund

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ARCHIVE: Of course they will pay what they can afford,

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but the scheme will depend on what they pay.

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It took 30 years for the people of Aberfan to regain

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the money they'd lost, it was finally repaid

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by the Welsh Government and today the gardens and memorials

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of the village have been restored giving the families the sense

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Collectively, we've been able to 50 years get through it as a family.

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I've always said Aberfan is a family.

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We've shared our thoughts and feelings, so many good things

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have come out of Aberfan and have you to think like that.

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You know, they are courageous, courageous people.

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That was Gaynor Madgwick, a survivor of the disaster,

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speaking to me in Aberfan to mark the 50th anniversary.

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Tonight, at 10.45pm, after the news on BBC One,

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I'll be telling the full story of Aberfan's long fight for justice.

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Donald Trump's wife has dismissed the widespread

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criticism of his conduct, insisting that he's "a gentleman."

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Melania Trump said that the comments Mr Trump was heard making

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about women were "inappropriate", but amounted to what

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Our correspondent, Nick Bryant, has been considering to what extent

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the Republican presidential candidate is alienating

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It's pumpkin rolling season in America, a sure sign that polling

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day is fast approaching and it can't come soon enough for many of these

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mothers in the suburbs of Philadelphia, deeply offended

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by Donald Trump's words and alleged behaviour.

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A new poll, conducted here, suggested he's trailing

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Hillary Clinton amongst female voters by a staggering 43 points.

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It just seems part of who he is and I find it just

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His words are just not something, you know, I want my children to hear

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and it's just not something that, you know, we want to invite

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into our house, even though typically I would vote Republican.

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In an attempt to quell this political storm,

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a serene Melania Trump has gone on television.

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A wife, turned character witness, stressing she's

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Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate

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and he apologised to me, and I accept his apology.

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Even before this scandal, Donald Trump's support amongst

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Republican women had started to slide, but he still has die

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Donna is not just still planning to vote for him, but also to clock

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Well, to be honest with you, I wasn't happy, but I know Mr Trump

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and I know his heart and he loves this country, and he does

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Ever since the mid 1960s, more women in America have voted

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than men and they've often had the decisive say in the suburbs that

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tend to decide the outcome of presidential elections,

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but for Donald Trump this has become a nationwide crisis.

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The Republicans have had a women problem for 30 years,

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that's how long female voters have supported Democratic presidential

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candidates at a higher rate than men.

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But Donald Trump has turned that gender gap into a gaping chasm.

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One recent poll suggested that Hillary Clinton has a 30

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Today, protests outside Trump buildings around the country

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from women sensing the likelihood of what they'd see as poetic justice

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- the election of America's first female president.

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Nick Bryant, BBC News, Philadelphia.

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The current state of American politics is an embarrassment

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in the eyes of the singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen.

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He was speaking on a visit to London to launch his autobiography -

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which has taken seven years to write - and expressed the view that

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millions of ordinary Americans were being left behind.

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He spoke to our arts editor, Will Gompertz.

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Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run sitting on the edge of his bed in

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his rented cottage. It was a humble beginning for a song that would

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launch this man from Newses Jersey into rock-and-roll superstar doom.

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I had two records out. They hadn't done that well. I had only a few

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record deals. This was my last shot. Initially I have the riff, it's a

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Duwayne Eddie, riff, basically. Then I had the chorus... Babe yes we were

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born to run. I couldn't get the rememberses. I spent six months

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writing it and six months recording it. It developed as it went along

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into this, into this very, big piece of music. Is that the moment you

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think - you found your voice, you found yourself, you found Bruce

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Springsteen? Yeah. One of the few records where I made, after we mixed

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it, I came home, I I put it on the next morning and said - that's

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exactly what I wanted it to sound like.

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# We go down to the river... # You talk about depression. You are

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32 years old, in the car, and this phrase rang out at me "toxic

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confusion." What does that mean? You hit a wall. You hit a wall where you

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simply don't know what to do with the next day. You are uncomfortable

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with your skin. Unsatisfied with where you are. Completely at loose

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ends. You don't know how to continue constructing your life. You don't

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know... You just don't know how to Stepney further.

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# Oh, down to the river we'd ride... #

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very unpredictable, but It's toxic confusion would be a good

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description of where you sit once it lands on you.

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# Born in the USA # I was born in the USA... #

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Your country today, what's going on? I'm not going to be able to explain

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that to you! Part of what's going on is you have 30 or 40 years of

:27:49.:27:54.

deindustrialisation and the globalisation of the economy. So

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there are a lot of people that were left out of that. Whose voices have

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been fundamentally ignored and not heard. Why aren't the Democrats

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doing that? They address it more than Republicans do. You know. But

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I'm still not sure it's being addressed on a deep enough level to

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provide answers to until a dem God like Trump comes along who appears

:28:20.:28:22.

to be listening whochl has very simple answers to very, very

:28:23.:28:27.

complicated and difficult questions. I think he's a conman and they are

:28:28.:28:34.

getting plagued, but, you know, if you've been... I know if I was... If

:28:35.:28:42.

I couldn't play music tomorrow and had to fine another completely

:28:43.:28:46.

different line of work. I have no idea what I do He says going into

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politics isn't a career option. He's going to stick with the day job and

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let his music do the talking. Will Gompertz, BBC News.

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Britain's medal-winning Olympic and Paralympic athletes were invited

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to Buckingham Palace this evening and were greeted by members

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of the Royal Family, including the Queen

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The reception marked the end of two days of parades,

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in Manchester and in London, to celebrate their success

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at the Rio Games, as Natalie Pirks has this report.

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With 240 guests to host, you could forgive the Queen for not

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But to take an active interest in the hockey team's injuries went

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Whilst some Paralympians gave Her Majesty a lesson

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in rattling medals, others were quizzed on the matters

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She was wondering how I was not managing to break my neck

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It's the question that I got asked quite a lot, actually.

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But, yes, she seemed very lovely, bless her.

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So what did you say when she asked you that?

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I told that they were making my neck very sore,

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The Duchess of Cambridge is known for her love of hockey.

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Catherine came bounding in when you won.

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The Prince told the all conquering team she "bounded in" to break

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No bounding, but plenty of patriotism from Adam Peaty.

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For Britain's first gold medallist at the Rio Olympics,

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It is, you know, a huge honour to be here and just to be in this kind

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of building is, you know, I'm a hugely patriotic guy,

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This is why you win golds, for stuff like this and you get

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Earlier today, in Trafalgar Square, it was a less formal affair.

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Time now for the athletes to relax and take a well-earned holiday.

:30:42.:30:47.

Many will surely be back to the Palace though

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when the New Year's Honours list is announced.

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Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.

:30:53.:30:58.

50 years ago, the BBC lay Cathy Come Home stunned the nation,

:30:59.:31:14.

50 years on, we still have huge problems with housing.

:31:15.:31:18.

We'll be asking if we can ever get a decent home for all.

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Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

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

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