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Tens of thousands of people march in support of the Egyptian

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President, Mohamed Morsi. They give him their backing after a week of

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protests of others opposed to his sweeping new powers.

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Taken down, brick-by-brick, the homes being dismantled after a

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landslide, caused by flooding. And what a match. England defeat

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All Blacks at Twickenham, in Good evening. Egypt's President,

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Mohamed Morsi, has urged his country to pull together to protect

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its fledgling democracy after setting a date for a referendum on

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a new controversial constitution. His decision last month to adopt

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sweeping new powers, and push through the draft document, have

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prompted angry demonstrations against him. But today, tens of

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thousands of people stage rallies to show their backing for the

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President. This is the response of President

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Morsi's supporters to the wave of protests against him.

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They've come from across Egypt. Many are hardline Islamists who

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want this to be a state guided by religion. Some just want a strong

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President to lead them out of the current deadlock. We need to start

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going back to work. That's why I'm here. I'm supporting the President

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Mohamed Morsi. I'm soreing referry single word he says. We love God,

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the Prophet and Islam. This is why we are here. It's been a

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bewildering ten days for President Morsi. First, he helped to media

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the Gaza-Israel ceasefire. A day later, he gave himself sweeping new

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powers, provoking the current round of protests.

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Now there's a new draft constitution. Tonight the President

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announced a referendum on it in two weeks' time, urging Egyptian to

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work together to build the country's future. TRANSLATION:

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know that huge challenges await us in the future, inside and outside

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of Egypt. We, the Egyptian people, are capable of facing up to them.

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But while the Muslim Brotherhood and their Islamist allies showed

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their support for the new constitution today, many other

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Egyptians deeply oppose it, fearing it leans too much towards imposing

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Islamic values. So the battlelines are well and

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truly drawn. The Islamists and other supporters of President Morsi

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have shown we can bring their people out ton to the streets in

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numbers. But the liberals have already made their home in Tahrir

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Square. During the day the liberal opposition posted Senturies around

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Tahrir Square, fearing they may come under attack. Supporters of

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President Morsi are continuing their protests tonight and tension

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can only build, as the country preparation for a referendum on the

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constitution and its very future. Jon is in dire yo for us tonight.

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It's clear Egypt -- Cairo. It is clear Egypt is a country deeply-

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divided. The euphoria of the Arab Spring seems to be a distant memory.

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What this has shown us is both sides of the dispute, before and

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against the President, can mobilise enormous support. For from all

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sectors of society and both sides in this dispute have a real anger

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against the other side. They believe the others are trying to

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steal the revolution and send the country in a disastrously wrong

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direction. Of course, that could be very dangerous. We have already

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seen some violence and there is potential for more in the weeks

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ahead. But you could also see it in another light. It's very exciting.

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Maybe for the first time in the modern Middle East, a whole country

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is mobilising to discuss, to debate, in the most ardent terms, the

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future and where they want their country to go. Thank you.

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Now David Cameron will warn newspaper editors they must take

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swift action to set up an independent press watchdog. Downing

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Street says he'll tell a meeting of editors on Tuesday, that a

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timetable should be set for creating an independent regulator.

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For more we can now join oir Political Correspondent Iain Watson

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at Westminster. -- our. The Prime Minister seems to be

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coming under increasing pressure to get newspaper editors to act

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quickly on regulation. It does. As you know the Liberal Democrats, his

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coalition partners, along with Labour and some victims of press

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intrusion, such as Madeleine McCann's family, all want to see

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the force of law put behind any new system of press regulation. David

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Cameron, so far, has resisted that. There is an online petition calling

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for that, with around 80,000 signatures on it this evening. I'm

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also being told that Labour might put this to a investigate at

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Westminster, sooner than we thought. Possibly this month rather than

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next. And their leader, Ed Miliband, is using a newspaper interview

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tomorrow to criticise David Cameron's lack of leadership on the

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issue. Against that backdrop, I think what David Cameron will say

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to the newspaper editors on Tuesday is quite clear: agree tough new

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rules amongst yourselves, voluntary rules, otherwise there will be a

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new law. Give me a timetable for when you are going to introduce?

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Make it snappy. Only if you put your own house in order quickly,

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can I put my political opponents back in their box. Thank you. Now

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work is under way to demolish five homes in Whitby which are in danger

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of collapsing after a landslide. The hillside in front of the row of

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houses gave way during torrential rain on Tuesday.

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Brick-by-brick, tile-by-tile, the demolition began. Four days after

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the land slip that condemned these cottages, the stkpwround too

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unstable for a conventional demolition, so this is how it has

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to be. -- the ground is too unstable. Structural engineers on

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site 24 hours to monitor the situation in case we have to give

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warning of collapse which would mean we would have to evacuate

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people further down. All but one of these cottages was a holiday mom.

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The residents weren't here today. It is not difficult to see what the

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attraction of living here was. Panoramic views over historic

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Whitby. Whitby is a tourist town, yet today it has a new attraction.

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The stricken cottage is a novelty, and a source of sadness. What a

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shame. What a beautiful view as well. I should imagine these people

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are pretty sick about it.. There is nothing they can do, apart from

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tear them down. These homes stood for 150 years. Their gardens washed

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away overnight. The painstaking demolition means they too will

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slowly vanish from the skyline. Australia has become the first

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country to ban tobacco companies from using any advertising or

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branged on cigarette packets. The rules are the most stringent in the

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world and only pictured showing the damage smoking can cause to

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people's health are now allowed. The images are designed to shock.

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Any colour you like, as long as it's green. This is the future for

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smokers in Australia. Plain packaging where one brand is now

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barely distinguishable from another. Australia's 3 million smoke letters

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now be deprived of their favourite colour-coded brands. There are

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35,000 outlets across Australia where you can buy cigarettes. But

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from now they'll all come in this plain, drab, green packaging. In a

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World First, gone are the colours and logos of the tobacco companies.

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Once you take all of that colour- coding and imagery away and

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everything is standardised with massive health warnings, you really

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do de-glamourise the product and you even go as far as de-

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normaliseing smoking. The clean cigarettes kind to your

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throat. This is now cigarettes used to be sold. Cigarette packs became

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the last advertising platform for tobacco companies. That's why they

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fought so hard against plain packaging in the courts, on grounds

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that logos are protected property and cigarettes are legal There's

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some serious, unintended consequence that is will flow on

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from plain packaging, including growth in the illegal tobacco

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market, including the reduction of legal tobacco prices. As Australia

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now packs away its old packets, other countries like BRIT Britain

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and India are gearing up their campaigns it take on tobacco

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companies in the battle of the cigarette box. -- to take on.

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North Korea has said it plans to launch a long-range rocket as early

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as next week. Previous, unsuccessful launches, have been

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criticised as breaches of a United Nations' ban on the country

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conducting ballistic missile tests. The United States has condemned the

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plan as highly provocative. When it comes to putting on a show,

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North Korea knows how to grab the attention. Rockets this big are

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hard to miss. And the worry for Washington and its allies is that

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North Korea's new young leader, Kim Jong Un, will learn how to fire

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them half way across the world. Today North Korea announced it was

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going even further. These grainy pictures the first sign of its plan

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to fire a rock elt into space, to launch a satellite it, said. --

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rocket. It's already tried that once this year. This rocket,

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launched last April, splintered into the sea, along with its

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satellite, moments after take-off. Eight months on, North Korea says

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its scientists have fixed the technical problems but the

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diplomatic ones remain. South Korea and the US believe these launches

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are a cover for long-range missile tests, banned under UN sanctions.

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South Korea is gearing up for a Presidential election on December

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19th, and candidates here have been airing their thoughts on relations

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with the North TRANSLATION: In this administration previous agreements

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with North Korea were disregarded. Nuclear talks have also stopped.

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The result is that ipbt Korean relations have collapse and the

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North Korean nuclear issue is even more difficult than before.

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question is what account Government here in Seoul or its Western allies

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do about North Korea's rocket launches? The UK and the US have

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already condemned this latest one and urged Pyongyang to abandon it.

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The failed launch in April stamped out any chance of a thaw between

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Pyongyang and Washington. The consequences of success could be

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far more severe. Sport now. And for a full round-up,

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here is Lizzie Greenwood Hughes. There was an incredible finale to

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rugby union's autumn internationals today with heartbreak for Wales

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losing 14-12 in the final minutes to Australia, but euphoria for

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England with a record-breaking 38- 21 victory over the All Blacks.

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There's nothing like the arrival of New Zealand to focus the mind. They

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are unquestionably the best side in the world. Earlier this week,

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though a virus swept through their squad. In the first half they were

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distinctly off colour. England's Owen Farrell had the kicking bug.

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He landed three pen tis and a drop goal. New Zealand hadn't registered

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a point by half-time. That hadn't happened since 1998. After the

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break they briefly burst into life. Two converted tries, the second

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from Kieran Read suddenly narrowed the deficit to one point. After

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that England were simply magnificent. Tries from Brad

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Barritt and cish Ashton, completed with his customary flourish put

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England out of sight -- Chris. The great All Blacks from in

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tatters. Manu Tuilagi could afford to walk-in the third. England's

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first win against New Zealand since 2003 and possibly their best ever.

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In Cardiff Wales were searching for their first victory of the autumn.

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They were on the urge of securing that against Australia. Leigh

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Halfpenny scored all Wales' points and kicked them 12-9 ahead. Welsh

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hearts were broken in the dying seconds. Kurtley Beale sprinted fee

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to get a last-gasp victory for the Wallabies and condemn Wales to a

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seventh straight defeat. England did the double over New Zealand at

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Twickenham with their women's team winning 32-23 in their third and

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final Test. The result completes a series white wash for England over

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the World Champions. Today's eight Premier League

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matches threw up unexpected results. Match of the Day follow this

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programme. If you don't want to know what happened, leave the room.

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Rafael Benitez is still looking for his first win at Chelsea after West

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Ham beat them 3-1 at Upton Park. And there was almost an upset at

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the Madejski as Manchester United had to twice come from behind to

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had to twice come from behind to beat Reding 4-3. Wayne Rooney

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scoring two for United who are three points clear at the top of

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the table. Arsenal drop to tenth after losing 2-0 to home at Swansea.

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So Manchester City fans watching have probably guessed that United's

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increased win at the top mean they didn't win, drewing 1-1 at home to

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