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Tonight at Ten: As dozens of child refugees are allowed into Britain,

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there are calls for more checks to verify how old they are.

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They come from the camp in Calais, which is due to be closed

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within days and it's being reported that some adults are passing

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These were some of this week's arrivals.

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One MP says there might be a case for dental checks

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If we want to help children, that's great, I'm all in favour

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of that, but I'm not in favour of allowing people in their 20s

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to say I am a child and then to come into the UK and make

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But the case for dental checks was dismissed as unethical

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Also tonight: In the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul,

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progress is slowed down by the forces of

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We have just come under heavy fire from an AF position over there.

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We were rushing back in our vehicle reversing when it got stuck.

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They're in the key state of Nevada for the final US presidential debate

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European scientists are still waiting for a signal

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from the spacecraft that was due to land on Mars several hours ago.

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And, some magic from Messi in Barcelona's Champions League

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match tonight against Manchester City.

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Ben Duckett and Haseeb Hameed are vying to be opening batsman

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for England's first Test against Bangladesh tomorrow morning.

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The Home Office has insisted that all necessary checks will be carried

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out on the child refugees arriving in Britain from the camp in Calais.

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The BBC has been told that 39 have arrived this week amid claims that

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Ministers say that further checks, including interviews with relatives

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A call from one Conservative MP for the refugees to submit to dental

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checks to verify their age has been rejected by ministers.

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The British Dental Association said any such checks would be

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Our correspondent, June Kelly, has more details.

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We are showing the face of one of the latest Calais arrivals. He was

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interviewed last week on the BBC by the singer Lily Allen while in The

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Jungle. And this morning, as the teenager from Afghanistan prepared

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to leave, he spoke about his hopes for his new life in Britain.

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TRANSLATION: I want to go to school in London, to join my brothers to

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start a new life there. But not everyone is pleased to see all the

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refugees. There are questions over whether

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some are under 18 and eligible to come to the UK as part of a scheme

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aimed at helping vulnerable children.

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Emotion is not a good way of deciding policy, sometimes we have

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to be hard-headed and think what are we trying to achieve? If we want to

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help children I am in favour of that, but I am not in favour of

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allowing people in their 20s to say I am a child and come to the UK and

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make a mockery of our rules. What screening procedures have the new

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arrivals undergone? Well, firstly there is an interview with French

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and British officials in Calais and checks are carried out. Once they

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arrive in Britain, their fingerprints are taken and there are

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more checks to see that they haven't broken the law. But even if a

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refugee has lied about his age, he can still try to claim asylum here.

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Amil, originally from Afghanistan, came in from Calais on Monday to be

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reunited with his older brother. We are not showing his face because he

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is only 14. He describes how he was processed.

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TRANSLATION: First I had to get some documents to prove my brother was in

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the UK. I had to interviews in Calais, one with French authorities

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and one with the British. Then when I arrived here on Monday there was

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another check. This has been day three of a

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resettlement scheme which has taken a long while to plan and a short

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time to become controversial. Last year, about a fifth of so-called

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unaccompanied minors were found to be over age. So there are strict

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rules according to an organisation which is helping to identify those

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in Calais. The Home Office does have pretty robust processes in place to

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assess children in Calais and recheck that and double check it

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back here in Britain. Essentially we think there is a robust process

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which will mean those children who are eligible will get transferred

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and those who aren't will get found out and returned back to France.

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Tonight, once again, The Jungle has been shrouded in tiergas fired by

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French police. All those in the camp want to reach the UK and in the

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coming days dozens more will be allowed to cross The Channel.

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Europe's migration challenge will be high on the agenda at a summit of EU

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Theresa May said today that control of immigration was at the heart

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of the outcome of the EU referendum in June.

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The Prime Minister will be hoping to convince her fellow leaders,

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including Chancellor Merkel of Germany, of her case

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for controlling immigration but, as our Europe editor, Katya Adler,

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reports, Chancellor Merkel is having to deal with her own pressures

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Looming German elections mean Angela can't afford to focus

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The concerns of ordinary voters need to take precedence.

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Immigration and integration are the main worries for German

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voters, though most are reluctant to say that on camera.

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I don't enjoy being here and it's not a place

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Activist Robert Timm showed me around a district of Berlin.

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More than a million asylum seekers flooded to Germany last year

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after Mrs Merkel put out the welcome mat.

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Robert told me he no longer recognised his own city.

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When I challenged him on that, he told me Chancellor Merkel should

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The people are fed up and she just doesn't care.

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That perception has damaged Angela Merkel's CDU Party.

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Brexit, say CDU members, will have to take a back seat

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to domestic issues before the general election here.

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TRANSLATION: It's inconceivable German politicians will let Brexit

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Migration, terror and security come first.

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But we have learned lessons from the Brexit referendum.

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We in Government need to win back the trust of our people.

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One thing really does need to be made clear.

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Angela Merkel, yes, she's down in the polls, but she's far from out

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but she's far from out and, as one of her nicknames,

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she is capable of fighting on more than one front.

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So, what does the leader of the EU's most influential country

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Germany and the UK traditionally are close allies inside the EU.

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But now that we're on our way out is that enough for Germany

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Of course say leading Brexiteers, citing German self-interest

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One in five cars made here is sold in Britain.

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But from the upholstered interiors of a Mercedes showroom cafe

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Britain's former ambassador to Berlin told me money doesn't

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always talk when it comes to Germany and the EU.

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Europe is their salvation, if you like, after the horrors

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And we've never really understood this in Britain.

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We've never understood that to our European partners Europe

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means something completely different to what it means for us.

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If push comes to shove, and the choice has to be made,

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the choice will be for Europe and not for Britain.

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It's not an easy choice for Angela Merkel and tonight Brexit

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and the EU's precarious future are all the subject of political

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Tomorrow's show is in Brussels with a debut by Theresa May

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and increasingly hostile performances expected by Mrs Merkel

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Katya has moved from Berlin to Brussels tonight ready for that

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summit. You have been explaining there some of the pressures on

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Angela Merkel at home and clearly Brexit will not be the focus of this

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summit as you say? Brussels is certainly a great pains to point out

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that there will be no Brexit debate at this or any other summit until

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Downing Street launches formal Brexit negotiations. Theresa May has

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been asked to deliver a Brexit update tomorrow night at a dinner

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with other EU leaders but there will be no discussion afterwards.

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However, at all of the formal discussions at this summit about

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migration and Russia and Syria Brexit will remain the red, white

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and blue elephant in the room and as I travelled around Europe you can

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see hardening positions in traditional British allies like

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Germany as I pointed out, but also the Netherlands, which like Germany

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and France hold general elections next year and Brexit is becoming

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something of an EU political football. A high level EU source was

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only half joking when he said to me tonight that after the migration,

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the eurozone, terror and security crisis, he hasn't seen EU leaders so

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united as they are in their determination to close ranks over

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Brexit, for now at least. Thank you very much.

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We will talk again tomorrow when that summit is on.

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Iraqi troops trying to drive so-called Islamic State

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from the city of Mosul, its last remaining stronghold

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in the country, are now facing growing resistance with IS forces

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Iraqi security forces are working with Kurdish troops to try to retake

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Our correspondent, Jonathan Beale, has been with an Iraqi

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rapid-reaction unit and sent this report

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There was a brief pause and a chance to regroup before the Iraqi army

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Around 70 villages still have to be cleared before

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they reached the city itself, 30 miles away.

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We travelled with General Abbas as he prepared to advance.

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So-called Islamic State or Daesh fighters had already been spotted.

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I'm going to put my troops to the left side

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After that, the coalition forces will attack these guys

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Our goal is to let the citizens be safe.

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Three suicide truck bombs were approaching at speed.

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They put their foot down, taking evasive manoeuvres.

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Two attackers never reached their target.

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The Iraqi army finished off the third.

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Are you worried about truck bombs, the threat it is to your men?

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I will be worried, because they are my men.

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Reinforcements arrived with reports of more Islamic State

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While some of them were killed, most managed to escape.

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Back on the move, but it wasn't long before we were halted in our tracks.

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There were repeated, harrying attacks.

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In one afternoon, they had barely moved forward a mile.

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And the fight is expected to be much tougher in Mosul,

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As we hastily pulled back, our Humvee crashed.

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We have been coming under heavy fire, we have been travelling up

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The vehicle got stuck and we had to come running back

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Our stranded Humvee and a trail of destruction suggests this

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Today here the Iraqi Army came across a group of about 100

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civilians fleeing the fighting. Further north there was a much

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larger group of about 1,000 crossing the border into Syria where camps

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are already overflowing. Remember we are talking at the moment about the

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villages outlying Mosul. That trickle could become a flood. With

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aid agencies warning of a potential humanitarian crisis with as many as

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a million people being forced to flee the fighting when it reaches

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the city itself. Jonathan, thank you for theup date.

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In a few hours' time, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

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will face each other in Las Vegas for the final debate

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of the presidential campaign before polling day on November 8th.

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The latest polls suggest that Mr Trump is losing ground in some

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key states after facing a series of allegations of sexual

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But it seems Mrs Clinton remains unpopular with many voters,

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so experts agree there's a great deal at stake in this third

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports.

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Las Vegas, this is a city where you can win big

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and invariably lose even bigger, where dreams are made and destroyed.

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Most things that Donald Trump has touched have turned to gold.

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His tower dominates the skyline, but in this presidential race,

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And whisper it quietly, he might end up the loser.

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So tonight, in the final debate, Donald Trump, like never before,

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Does he gamble on a scorched earth policy in an attempt to drag

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Or does he try to look presidential, calm and measured and put his chips

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I was calling to see if we still have your support

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But put the debate to one side, politics is about the grunt work,

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the slog, and this is where Hillary Clinton is better resourced

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I, Anika, my name is Maria, I'm a volunteer at the Nevada

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More field offices, more staff and, in Nevada alone, have registered

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around 100,000 more Democratic voters than the Trump

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The next three weeks will yield more conversations

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with voters around the country, more knocking of doors,

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more phone calls, more volunteers getting out to vote,

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and really the excitement of the electorate, who is continuing

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This is one of Donald Trump's only offices in Nevada

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and we weren't allowed in to film, his campaign team never

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returned our calls and, for the fist time, a slightly

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downbeat assessment from his campaign spokeswoman on Fox News.

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Do you see it as a comeback at the moment?

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It's a comeback and he's done it before, several

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We caught up with his supporters down town as they waited

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They may not have infrastructure, but they have

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Awesome! Awesome!

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Every time I've gone to any type of rally,

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They're showing up because there is a game.

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He's not getting a fair shake and that's why I'm here.

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He's going to do really good for our country.

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Moments after that, Donald Trump's convoy swept into the hotel.

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He needs a small miracle tonight to turn things around,

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but Nevada is full of people convinced their luck

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This time four years ago, when Nick Romney was getting ready to face

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Barack Obama in the final debate the polls were neck and neck. The latest

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poll of polls today shows Hillary Clinton nine points in the lead.

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That is massive landslide territory. It just doesn't feel like that. It

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may be that the polls are under stating Donald Trump support. If he

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scores a knock out tonight, it could get a lot tighter in the final three

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weeks. You know the phrase that Donald Trump keeps using in his

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speeches now, "we're going to do a Brexit." Huw. All right, Jon, thanks

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very much. We will talk again about the debate tomorrow, I'm sure, Jon

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Sopel there for us in Las Vegas. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories. The Government has

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backed down from a plan to make all children

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who fail their end of year primary school tests in England to retake

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them in secondary school. The Education Secretary said

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children will be offered Downing Street says

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that the Prime Minister was made aware of some tensions

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between the former chair of the Independent Inquiry

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into Child Sexual Abuse and its panel a few weeks before

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official concerns were raised. The Prime Minister told

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MPs today that there were "stories" circulating

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about Dame Lowell Goddard, but she couldn't intervene

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on the basis of "rumour." The DJ Tony Blackburn

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is to return to Radio 2 and BBC He lost his job in February

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after the BBC said his evidence to an inquiry into sexual abuse

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at the Corporation "fell short" The DJ has always denied any

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wrongdoing and claimed he'd The House of Commons

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will consider tomorrow whether the former boss of BHS,

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Sir Philip Green, should be allowed Sir Philip sold BHS for ?1

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in 2015 and the chain went into administration earlier this

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year, involving the loss of 11,000 jobs and a ?571 million hole

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in the pension fund. Sir Philip is understood to be

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meeting the pensions Our business editor,

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Simon Jack, is here. We have this debate tomorrow and we

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have a potential meeting with the pension regulator within days. Where

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do these come together? This debate and Philip Green's knighthood

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depends on the pension issue. He promised to sort it out, to give

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those pensioners a better outcome than sliding into the pension

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protection fund and their benefits would fall by 10% and dwindle over

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time. He has a meeting within the next 48-hours with the pensions

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regulator where I'm told real progress will be made to hammer out

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some of the issues so the firm, substantive offer can be made.

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Something we haven't seen so far. I have to say, that the people on the

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other side, Frank Field, his Nemesis, other MPs are treating it

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with a degree of scepticism. What is interesting, it puts the Speaker of

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the House of Commons in an interesting position, it's up to him

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whether we get a vote on this. Whether we should start the process,

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it's not the end of the process, of stripping him of his knighthood. Do

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you let a vote happen? Do you say, we will not have this vote until we

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see if he's serious this time and whether there will be a better

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outcome and some real progress there. A big call for the Speaker of

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the House of Commons. One senior MP I spoke to said that this game of

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parliamentary poker amounted to cash-for-honours. We will find out

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how much Philip Green values his knighthood and reputation.

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Pensioners will care much more about the outcome they get rather than

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this brinkmanship, the game of parliamentary poker that is going

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on. It will be interesting to see what goes on. Thank you very much.

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Simon Jack there. Staff at Pentonville jail in London

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- where an inmate was killed yesterday and two others injured -

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have passed a vote of no Two prisoners have been arrested

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on suspicion of murder. The dead prisoner has been

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named as Jamal Mahmoud, The Prison Governors' Association

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is blaming public sector cuts for increasing violence in prisons

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as our home afairs correspondent, It was around 3.30pm yesterday

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afternoon that a London gang war spilled over into Pentonville Prison

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with fatal results. Jamal Mahmoud, a 21-year-old,

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serving time for hiding a scorpion machine gun,

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was stabbed with a hunting knife by fellow inmates

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and thrown from a balcony. Tonight at his home,

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there were tears as his family, including his baby son,

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gathered to mourn and to wonder how he'd been killed

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while inside Pentonville. It's very disturbing how

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it's governed right now. I just hope that place gets

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shut down as soon as possible We wanted him back

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in one piece, but... Pentonville, which holds

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more than 1,200 men, has become notorious

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in recent years. I've seen people get hot

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water slung over them. I've seen people get stabbed

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in prisons, in Pentonville before, but this time it's gone over the top

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where someone has ended up dying. That's the only reason it's got

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into the public eye. One issue has been prisoners

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and their accomplices using ropes and even drones to smuggle drugs

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and weapons over the prison walls. It's been a perfect storm

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for prisons like Pentonville, an increasingly violent prison

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population, new drugs which have caused problems of debt among

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inmates and more violence and, meanwhile, the number of prison

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officers has fallen. The Prison Officers' Association

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at Pentonville today voted that it had no confidence in the governor,

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while senior staff described I was duty governor there a few

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months ago, over the weekend, we had prisoners fighting,

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we retrieved weapons from them. We had drugs coming over the wall,

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that were packed into tools so that they could get

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through the netting. The new Justice Secretary,

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Liz Truss, says making prisons in England and Wales safer

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is a priority and has already announced plans to increase

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the numbers of prison staff Daniel Sandford, BBC News,

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at Pentonville Prison. European and Russian scientists

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are waiting to learn whether they've made a breakthrough

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in the exploration of Mars. They are hoping to hear

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from a lander, called Schiaparelli, but radio contact was lost shortly

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before it was due to touch The last European attempt to land

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a craft on Mars ended Our science editor, David Shukman,

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reports from the mission It's been a strange day

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here at Mission Control, one minute there were cheers

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and hugs as an orbiting spacecraft starting circling above Mars to look

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for clues about life. But then came long hours of tension,

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as a second part of the mission We expected it to continue,

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but clearly did not. The plan was for a lander to descend

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to the surface. We know that it made

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it most of the way. It's parachute definitely opened,

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but after that, well, Beside a replica of the lander,

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a senior Space Agency We don't know whether anything went

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wrong at this stage. We have to understand and I'm not

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going to speculate. But it's possible then

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that it is on the surface, intact and functioning,

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just not communicating? That is one possibility,

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but who knows. We have to wait until tomorrow

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and discover what we find. This is how the landing should have

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happened, but there's no data about the final

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minute of the dissent. Staff here at Mission Control

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will be working through the night trying to understand what's happened

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and hoping of course that the lander did touch down intact

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and will communicate, but the chances don't look great

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and that raises a serious question over Europe's next big plan

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to go to Mars. In four years' time,

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the European Space Agency is planning to send a rover to Mars

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to hunt for life, but today's Let's face it, if we don't get

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to the surface of Mars, But we didn't conquer the solar

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system or start to conquer the solar system by stopping every

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time we got knocked. Every time we got knocked,

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we carry on and we move forward. But all this is horribly reminiscent

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of another attempt to land on Mars, back in 2003,

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led by the charismatic Colin He died two years ago,

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but his daughter says he's Although it was extremely

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disapointing that at the time we never got a signal from Beagle 2,

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and you felt that real sense of disappointment

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amongst all the team, Actually going forward,

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that's what science is about, sometimes things work,

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sometimes they don't work. The ultimate goal is to find out

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if the great canyons of Mars host life, to see if we really are alone

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in the universe. That quest may take

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longer than planned. David Shukman, BBC News,

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at Mission Control in Germany. In tonight's Champions League

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football, Manchester City travelled to Barcelona,

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a place Pep Guardiola knows well after his record-breaking four

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years as manager there. Celtic and Arsenal were also

:26:31.:26:33.

in action this evening. Our correspondent, Katie Gornall,

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was watching the action. Here is a man at home in his

:26:36.:26:45.

surroundings. Back among friends, back where he built his success. But

:26:46.:26:49.

Pep Guardiola doesn't just want to beat his former club, he wants to

:26:50.:26:53.

emulate them, 16 minutes in it became apparent just how difficult

:26:54.:27:01.

that would be. Lionel Messi with a goal embodying his brilliance,

:27:02.:27:07.

reminiscent of old times. John Stones stretched in orange and

:27:08.:27:10.

slipped through unnoticed. Their response always was to attack and

:27:11.:27:16.

Claudio Bravo used all means necessary to sweep Suarez at bay. It

:27:17.:27:20.

was difficult to watch for Pep Guardiola, he encourages his

:27:21.:27:22.

goalkeepers to play out from the back, not like this. Bravo's raised

:27:23.:27:28.

hands plunge City into crisis. With 10 men to beat it was easy for Messi

:27:29.:27:36.

his sicked goal was fold by a third. The red and blue stripes entransed

:27:37.:27:41.

the City defence. It finished 4-0. They say imitation is the sincerest

:27:42.:27:46.

form of flat are you. City are a poor copy. Celtic had high hopes

:27:47.:27:51.

against Borussia Monchengladbach. After a lapse in concentration was

:27:52.:27:55.

punished, the hopes began to fade. Another mistake allowed the Germans

:27:56.:28:00.

to leave Celtic Park with all three points and leave Brendan Rodgers

:28:01.:28:03.

side facing a battle to stay in Europe. It was all a little more

:28:04.:28:08.

laid back in North London. Arsenal took 11 minutes to unlock their

:28:09.:28:13.

opponents. Sanchez make the sublime look simple. Walcott would continue

:28:14.:28:19.

the theme to make it 2-0. Four more goals would follow in the

:28:20.:28:21.

second-half as Arsenal cruised to the top of their Group. Katie

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Gornall, BBC News. The people of France are approaching

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the first anniversary of the terror attacks in Paris last November

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which claimed the lives of 130 people, most of them

:28:34.:28:36.

at the Bataclan Concert Hall. In the days following the attacks,

:28:37.:28:38.

a French journalist, called Antoine Leiris,

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published an open letter to the killers whose victims

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included his wife Helene, Our correspondent,

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Damian Grammaticas, has On Friday night you stole away

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the life of an exceptional being. The love of my life,

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the mother of my son. I do not know who you are

:28:56.:28:57.

and I don't want to know. Today, Antoine Leiris

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remains defiant, dignified, For me it's the only way

:29:05.:29:15.

to not fall in craziness. Yes, sometimes it's difficult,

:29:16.:29:22.

sometimes hate comes and knocks on my door and says, "Hey,

:29:23.:29:35.

I'm there, I'm simple, You can go with me, it

:29:36.:29:37.

will be easier for you." But I just let her out of our house

:29:38.:29:46.

and, yes, I think it was His new book is an intimate diary,

:29:47.:29:49.

how he dealt with the loss of his wife, Helene,

:29:50.:30:05.

at the Bataclan. When you close a dead person's eyes,

:30:06.:30:07.

you give them back a little She looks like the woman I watch

:30:08.:30:10.

wake up each morning. Because it's a connection

:30:11.:30:13.

to your wife? like, even a physical

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testimony, you know. You felt it inside

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you, very strongly. It's a testimony of how I loved

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Helene. That was the French journalist,

:30:33.:30:46.

Antoine Leiris, reflecting on the events of last November when his

:30:47.:30:50.

wife was among those killed in the Paris terror attacks.

:30:51.:30:54.

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