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More signs of opposition within the Conservative Party to the Prime

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Minister's plans on gay marriage. More than 20 Conservative

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associations call for this week's parliamentary vote to be delayed -

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saying it'll cost votes at the next election. The 20-year-old London

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woman whose life was forever changed by an acid attack as she

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stepped off a bus. The moment a man carrying knives was disarmed

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outside Buckingham Palace by police with a Taser gun. And in sport, a

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touch of genius from Manchester City, but it's only good enough for

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Good evening. David Cameron is facing a challenge from within the

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Conservative Party to plans for Parliament to vote on gay marriage.

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A delegation from more than 20 local Conservative associations has

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delivered a letter to Downing Street, saying that gay marriage

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will cause the party significant damage at the 2015 election. MPs

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vote on the issue on Tuesday. Our political correspondent Carole

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Walker has the details. They came from the shires on a Sunday

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afternoon to deliver their protest to Downing Street. These are some

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of the 25 senior Conservatives who are warning David Cameron that a

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significant number in his party will not support what they see as

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an attempt to redefine marriage. is not a matter of being anti-gay.

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It is a matter of considering what is the institution of marriage

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about and for many people, and certainly older Conservatives, as

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well as young Conservatives, Mage has been a matter between a man and

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a woman, bringing up if they're lucky, children. Their letter says

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there is no mandate for the bill and it is being rushed through and

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it says resignations from the party are beginning to multiply and we

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fear this bill will lead to significant damage to the

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Conservative Party in the run-up to the 2015 election. Downing Street

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say there is no question of Prime Minister backing down. It is a free

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vote and he accepts many MPs and even some cabinet ministers will

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not support it. But he believes it is time to give gay teem e people

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the same right as everyone else. it rights in principle, I think it

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is, marriage is a positive institution and we shouldn't deny

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it to people. There is public consents for it to be a law? Yes.

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There is. Many Tories want the Prime Minister to do nor support

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traditional marriages and resentment has been fumed by the

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decision not to introduce tax break four married couples in the budget.

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The bill to allow gay couples to marry is likely to get the go ahead

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on Tuesday. But it could face a difficult passage through

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Parliament, which will put further strains on the relationship between

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the Prime Minister and his party. A 20-year-old woman from East London

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who was disfigured in an acid attack on her way home from work

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has been speaking to the BBC about her ordeal. In her first television

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interview, Naomi Oni said that when she saw her face for the first time

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after the attack she didn't want to live. This report from Ben Ando.

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This was 20- year-old Naomi Oni before the attack that changed her

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life forever. There was droplets on my arm. Naomi suffered horrific

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burns just over a month ago when acid was thrown at her by an

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unknown attacker dressed in a Burkha. She was rushed to hospital

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and recalls the moment she saw her injuries in a mirror. My eyes were

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swollen. I was terrified. My vision was cutting out as well. I thought

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I was going to go blind. I was terrified. I didn't want to want to

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live after I saw my face. Naomi worked in a shopping mall. She has

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no idea why somebody would want to inflict such horrific injuries. It

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burnt quite a bit of my ear. not deaf, I'm not blind and I can

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eat, I can drink, I can talk. That is just like that person failed -

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whatever their aim was, they failed and God has given me a life for a

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reason. That's what keeps me going. Now Naomi says she is determined to

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stay positive and is hoping that giving this interview will prompt

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someone to contact the police, though so far no one has been

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arrested. The Prime Minister is meeting the Afghan and Pakistani

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presidents tonight for talks on what happens in Afghanistan after

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foreign troops withdraw next year. The hope is to prevent a Taliban

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resurgence, but the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan

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will be crucial, especially along their notoriously lawless shared

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border. We have reports from correspondents on both sides of

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that border. In a moment Quentin Somerville from Afghanistan, but

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first Orla Guerin on Pakistan's role. Dangerous terrain. The border

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region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hidden from view there

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are militant strongholds, some allegedly have Islamabad's

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protection. When NATO troops go, controlling this front line will be

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up to Pakistan and its wary neighbour. But first it needs the

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trust of the region and the west. And here in Islamabad, the

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Government has started building that trust. It has taken concrete

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steps by freeing some Afghan Taliban prisoners. More releases

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are expected soon. The hope is the returning Taliban can persuade

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their leaderships to move from fighting to talking. If that fails,

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there could be more chaos on both sides of the fabled Khyber Pass.

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Pakistan fears being left alone to pick up the pieces as it was in

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1989 when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan. $YELLOW When relations

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with Pakistan hit rock bottom, this essential supply route into

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Afghanistan closed. The trucks are moving here again. The routes have

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reopened and on this side of the border. There is a growing sense of

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optimism that Pakistan by releasing a number of Taliban leaders from

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prison may be able to play a constructive role in bring

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participants to the negotiating table and getting the peace process

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moving. In the Afghan capital and beyond, the focus is turning to the

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legacy that the international mission leaves behind. As in

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Islamabad, the sense here in Kabul is that the clock is ticking.

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President Karzai is scheduled to leave office in a year's time.

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Foreign troops won't be far behind him. And in the words of one senior

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western diplomat, there is a moment of opportunity for Afghanistan and

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Pakistan to work together for peace. Britain's role is to host these two

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nations whose future prospects remain joined together. It's

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emerged that another senior director at Barclays Bank is

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stepping down. Finance Director Chris Lucas, who's expected to

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leave in a matter of days. His decision to retire comes as the

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bank attempts to move on after last year's rate-fixing scandal. Our

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Business Correspondent Philip Hampsheir is with me now. How

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significant is this? Chris Lucas has been at the bank for six years

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now. So a long time. But he is one of the last set of four people who

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were at the top of the bank during the difficult times last summer. We

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have seen two step down. We have seen the former Chief Executive

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officer go as well. He was the last one at that big four set. The bank

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is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the

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financial services authority with regard to how it managed to avoid

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having the British Government buy a stake in it. Barclays is keen to

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point out there is no relation between that investigation and the

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fact he has chosen to step down now. Thank you. Very much. French

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warplanes have bombarded Islamist bases in northern Mali as they try

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to secure a town which is the rebels' last stronghold. The air

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strike came just a few hours after a triumphant visit by the French

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president to Timbuktu - the most prominent area freed by his troops

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from Islamist control. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding is in

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Timbuktu now and reports on the tensions and divisions still in

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evidence. Life and colour are returning to this desert town.

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Schools are finally open once again. The Islamist militants who occupied

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Timbuktu imposed strict rules for girls and then stop all lessons.

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There is plenty to clear up. The militants have tried to destroy

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past, burning some priceless manuscripts and smashing ancient

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shrines. Paining over anything that offended them that. Included the

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faces outside the hair dressing Sallon. They arrested me for

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shaving someone's beard off, he says. They beat people on the

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street. I hope they never come back. But tensions remain and this man

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showed me the neighbourhood and dozens of looted shops that were

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owned by light skinned people, accused of being Al-Qaeda

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sympathisers. They were all working with them he said. They hid weapon

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upon -- weapons for the enemies. It is a sign of the rivalry still

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threatening Mali. Timbuktu's leaders seem confident the worst is

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over. We will have elections soon, says the town's mayor and a

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transparent who must live together, negotiate and rebuild our country.

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The French are still here to help out, but they're working on an exit

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strategy. Before long, Mali's own ill-disciplined security forces

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will be expected to take a role in keeping the peace here in Timbuktu

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and preventing Al-Qaeda and its allys from storming back into town.

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That is asking a lot of these soldiers. On the outskirts of town,

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Mali's airm stands on guard. Deeper in the desert to the north, the war

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goes on. The Birmingham hospital treating Malala Yousafzai - the

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Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban - says she is making good

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progress after major surgery yesterday. During the five-hour

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operation surgeons attached a titanium plate to her skull and

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implanted a device to help her hearing. Police outside Buckingham

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Palace have used a Taser stun gun to disarm a man who was carrying

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two knives. Crowds of tourists watched as the man held a large

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blade to his throat and then challenged police who approached

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him. Richard Lister reports. Noon at Buckingham Palace and a crowd's

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gathered for the changing of the guard. All eyes though are on this

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man who is bradishing two large kitchen knives. The police surround

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him as he holds a blade to his neck. They challenge him and one officer

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circled behind him with a Taser. He fires. The man then appeared to

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approach him before falling to the ground. The electric shock leaves

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the man stunned and officers disarm before taking him away. One

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bystander said it all seemed to be over very quickly. They surrounded

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him and then one come up behind him and Tasered him. He fell to the

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ground within a couple of seconds and he got taken away in the police

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van. Buckingham Palace says the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

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were in Sandringham at the time. It hasn't issued any comment on the

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incident. The knives and the man's hat were visible behind the police

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cordon, as were the beads he was holding. Scotland Yard say he is

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now being held at a police station in central London. The Egyptian

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Government has apologised after shocking footage of a man being

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beaten by police outside the presidential palace was broadcast

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on state television. The images proved to be a particular

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flashpoint amid days of protest against President Mursi. Our

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correspondent Aleem Maqbool went to find his family. His report starts

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with that controversial footage. It is a video that has called

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revulsion here. The sight of a man apparently being stripped, beaten

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and dragged along the road by police. It was during a protest

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close to the Presidential Palace and it has come to similar pollise

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hatred for the president. The victim is being treated in a police

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hospital. But when we found his family, they told us they had been

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left devastated by the hue mill kpwraigs. -- mew milliation.

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TRANSLATION: Everyone knows what happened to my father. I spoke to

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him on the phone. He was crying and scared. He is such a simple man. He

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just went to watch. I can't forgive them for treating him like an

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animal. But strangely fr, his hospital bed, the man appeared on

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television, saying he is fine and that it was opposition protesters

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that beat him. And that the police rescued him. We went to the

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hospital ourselves with his son. Though we wernt aloud in -- weren't

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aloud in, he was was. After he understood why his father appeared

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to have lied on TV. TRANSLATION: My father told me the police put

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pressure on him. They told him if he opens his moufrtd, they would

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plant Molotov cock toils -- mouth, they would plant Molotov cocktail

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and say he was carrying them. is where the man was stripped and

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beaten. It has caused shock among Egyptians. And it is incidents like

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these that make a lot of people here feel they still need to fight

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for real change in Egypt. Sport now and for a full round up of all the

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day's action, here's Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre. Thank you. We

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have had some stunning goals in the Premier League today. Gareth Bale

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scored the win for Tottenham at WBA and Manchester City could only draw

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with Liverpool. Many will miss Manchester City's striker Mario

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Balotelli. The manager chose not to replace him and his faith in his

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strikers was rewarded when Dzeko scored. But their former player

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Sturridge did the damage. If that was spectacular it was nothing

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compared to Liverpool's second. Steven Gerard has scored some

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memorable goals. He won't forget this one for a while. If Liverpool

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thought they would see their team beat a table from the top of the of

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the season -- table, they were wrong. But Aguero scored this goal.

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The draw leaves City trailing Manchester United by nine points.

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Earlier, West Brom's hopes of getting anything from their match

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at home to Tottenham evaporated when Popov spat at Kyle Walker.

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Then they got a goal and Spurs boosted their chances of the

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Champions League. There has been an upset in the Six Nations. Italy

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have beaten France in Rome. It was a tight game but this try saw Italy

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edge in front in the second half. A late drop goal saw them win 23-18

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and cue celebrations. Italy play Scotland in Edinburgh next weekend.

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A brilliant century from Charlotte Edwards helped England beat India

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in the cricket World Cup. Her 109 also saw her become the leading

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scorer in one day internationals. In need of a cuddle? Well England

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probably were after that shock opening loss to Sri Lanka. But in

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this match, they had a mascot and a record-breaker. Charlotte Edwards

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the captain became the leading international one day run scorer.

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And the runs kept coming and so did the boundaries and soon the century.

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Edwards was run out, but the damage had been done. A hefty 273 India's

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target and England tore through their top order. Nothing weak about

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England's knight in shining armour, Heather Knight with a stunning

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piece of fielding. And the wickets kept falling. India lost by 32 runs.

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A fine day's work for England. Their mascot and the captain.

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Steefren Gallagher is celebrating a rare win on the European tour. He

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won the Dubai Desert Classic, thanks to this eagle on 16th. It is

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