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David Cameron warned that his plans to legalise gay marriage will cost

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votes in the next election. More than 20 Conservative

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associations urge a delay to the plans, a parliamentary vote is

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scheduled for this week The footage that shocked Egypt. As

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the government orders an inquiry into this police brutality, the BBC

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tracks down the injured man's family.

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A life forever changed, the 20- year-old Londoner attacked with

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acid as she stepped off a bus. thought I was going to go blind. I

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was terrified. I didn't want to leave after I saw my face.

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After the military offensive, how tensions still divide Timbuktu a

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special report from Mali. And in sport a Charlotte Edwards

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century puts England's World Cup Good evening.

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David Cameron has been warned by senior grassroots Conservatives

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that his plans to legalise same-sex marriage will do "significant

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damage" to the party at the ballot box. Two days before MPs vote on

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the proposals, a letter signed by 25 past and present chairmen of

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local Conservative associations has urged the Prime Minister to delay

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the decision. Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker has the

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details. They came from the shires on a

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Sunday afternoon to deliver their protest to Downing Street. These

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are some of the 25 senior Conservatives who are warning David

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Cameron a significant number in his party will not support what they

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see as an attempt to redefine marriage. It is not a matter of

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being anti-gay, it is a matter of considering what is the institution

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of marriage is all about, and for many people, certainly older

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Conservatives as well as young, marriage has been a matter between

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a man and a woman, bringing up, if they are looking enough -- lucky

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enough, bringing up children. letter says there is no mandate for

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the bill, it has been rushed through without proper consultation

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and it's as resignations from the Downing Street say there is no

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question of the Prime Minister backing down, it is a free vote and

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he excepts many of his MPs will not support the move. He believes it is

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time to give gay people the same right as everybody else, to get

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married. Is it right in principle? Marriage as an institution, a very

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positive institution, we shouldn't deny it to people. Is there

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sufficient public consent for it to be a law?

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Many Tories won the Prime Minister to do more to support traditional

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marriages and resentment has been fuelled by the decision not to

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introduce tax breaks for married couples in the coming budget. The

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Bill to allow gay couples to marry is likely to get the go-ahead on

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Tuesday, given the backing of most Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs,

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but it could face a difficult passage through Parliament that

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would put further strains on the fractious relationship between the

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Prime Minister and his party. The family of a protester brutally

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beaten by police in Egypt have told the BBC that he's been forced to

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lie about what happened. The man was attacked outside the

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Presidential palace on Friday with the footage broadcast live on state

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television. The Egyptian government has ordered an investigation but

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the incident has inflamed tension in one of the bloodiest weeks of

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President Morsi's seven months in power.

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It is a video that has caused revulsion here. The sight of a man

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apparently been stripped, beaten and dragged along the raid by

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police. It was during a protest close to the presidential palace,

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and it has fast come to symbolise hatred for the President. The

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victim, Hamada Saber, is being treated in a police hospital. When

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we found his family they told us they had been left devastated by

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the humiliation. TRANSLATION: Everybody here knows what happened

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to him. I spoke to him on the phone, he was crying and scared, such a

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simple man, he just went to watch. I cannot forgive them for treating

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him like an animal. But strangely from his hospital bed he has

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appeared on Egyptian state television saying he is fine and it

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was opposition protesters that beat him and the police rescued him. We

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re to hospitals ourselves with his son but we weren't allowed --

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allowed in. He understood why his party appears to have lied on TV.

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TRANSLATION: My father will be the police put pressure on him, they

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said if he opens his mouth they will plant Molotov cocktails and

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say he was carrying them. This is where Hamada Saber was stripped and

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beaten and it is something that has caused a great deal of shock

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amongst Egyptians who feel this shouldn't be done -- be happening

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two years after a revolution and it is incidents like these that make a

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lot of people think they need to fight a real change in Egypt.

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A man has been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl who

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was found stabbed to death in Blackpool. Sasha Marsden was

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discovered with wounds to her head and face on Thursday. Tonight her

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family laid flowers near the alley where she was found. David Minto,

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who's 22 and from Blackpool, will appear before magistrates tomorrow.

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The Metropolitan Police says it's investigating a claim that

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undercover officers used the identities of dead children while

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infiltrating groups of political activists. A report in the Guardian

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relates to the activities of a covert unit which has since been

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disbanded. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Matt Prodger is at

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Scotland Yard for us tonight. Matt, what more do we know?

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The covert unit, the special demonstrations court, no longer

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exist and these related to the 1970s and 1980s. The newspaper

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claims the Metropolitan police secretly authorised undercover

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police officers to assume the identities of at least 80 dead

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children. The reason being it seems such a been seized would provide

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credible aliases for undercover police officers, in other words

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names that could be checked against birth records if anybody suspected

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the fake identities that these officers were using what they were

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old enough -- infiltrating political groups. The metric top --

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Metropolitan Police says it has received a formal complaint and

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says such practices are not currently authorised. The whole

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issue of undercover policing has come under scrutiny, it really

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since 2011, when Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer, was

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exposed. He had had sexual relationships with at least two

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women, to political activists. A total of 10 women are currently

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suing the Metropolitan Police over those activities. This is the

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latest twist in that particular saga.

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Police outside Buckingham Palace have used a Taser stun gun to

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disarm a man who was carrying two knives. Crowds of tourists watched

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as the man held a large blade to his throat and then challenged

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police who approached him. Richard Lister reports.

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Min at Buckingham Palace and the crowd as gathered for the changing

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of the Guard, all eyes are on this man who is brandishing to eat large

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kitchen knives. -- two large kitchen knives. The police around

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to. They challenge him add one officer circles behind him with a

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taser are, he fires. The man appears to approach him before

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falling to the ground. The electric shock leaves the man stunned and

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offices disarm him before taking him away. One bystander said it all

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seemed to be over very quickly. surrounded him, then one went

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behind him and tasted him, he fell to ground a within a couple of

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seconds he got taken away in the police van. Buckingham Palace says

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the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh work incentive them at the time, it

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hasn't issued any comment on the issue. -- incident. The knives and

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his hat were visible behind the police cordon to stop he is now

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being held at a police station in central London.

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Two of Barclays' most senior executives, the finance director

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Chris Lucas and the head lawyer Mark Harding have announced plans

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to retire. The bank has been hit by several recent scandals including

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insurance mis-selling and the rigging of the Libor interest rate,

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and been fined hundreds of millions of pounds on both sides of the

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Atlantic. Sticking with the banks, the

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Chancellor George Osborne is due to deliver a speech tomorrow outlining

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plans for reform of the banking industry. Our economics editor

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Stephanie Flanders is here. Stephanie, what are we expecting to

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hear? We are expecting him to take stock

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of all the big reforms that have happened to the financial system in

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response to the crisis, all the things that have been done to

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prevent that crisis from happening again, a lot of which are coming in

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in 2013, the new powers for the Bank of England, got to get over

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the whole financial system and the banks and this legislation which we

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expect the Chancellor to submit to parliament tomorrow which is a big

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piece of structural reform for the banks, a response to the Commission

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on banking reform, and the basic idea is to have a ring fence inside

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the banks to separate the risky investment banking activities they

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do from the bread-and-butter retail operations and the point behind

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that is to make sure the government never gets into the position in got

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into in 2000 Today we you have the big battle bits in the City go

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wrong, the government has to spend hundreds bailing out the banks --

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2008. We know a lot about this reform, we will be listening out to

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hear whether he will follow the advice of a parliamentary

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commission that says it should be tougher, the ring fence, the

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regulators would have the power to break-up banks if they did separate

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those activities. But is one thing that will be interesting, and

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increasing the competition, making it better at getting funds to

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ordinary businesses. A 20-year-old woman from East

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

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

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television interview Naomi Oni says that when she saw her injured face

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for the first time 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 but changed her

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life forever. There were droplets on my arm. She suffered horrific

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

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unknown attacker. She was rushed to hospital and recalls the moment she

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saw her injuries in a row. My eyes were swollen, I was terrified. My

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vision was cutting out as well, I thought I was going to go blind. I

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was terrified. I didn't want to live after I saw my face.

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worked in a shopping centre, she has no idea why somebody would want

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to inflict such horrific injuries. It burned quite a bit of my hair. I

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am not deaf, blind, and I can eat, drink, talk, that to me, that

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person failed, whatever their aim was. And God has given me a life

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for a reason. That's what keeps me going. Now Naomi says she is

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determined to stay positive and it had been giving this interview will

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prompt somebody to contact the police, they are so far nobody has

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been arrested. -- For those so far. French warplanes have bombed

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Islamist bases in northern Mali as they try to secure a town which is

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the rebels' last stronghold. The airstrike came just a few hours

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after a triumphant visit by the French president to Timbuktu, the

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most prominent area freed by his troops from Islamist control. Our

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Africa correspondent Andrew Harding is in Timbuktu and reports now on

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the tensions and divisions still in evidence.

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Life and colour returning to this desert town. Schools are finally

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opened once again. The Islamist militants who occupied Timbuktu

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imposed strict rules for girls, then stopped all lessons. There is

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plenty to clear up here. The militants have tried to destroy the

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past, burning some priceless manuscripts, smashing ancient

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shrines, painting over anything that offended them. That included

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the faces outside this hairdressing salon. My good translation they

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arrested me for shaving somebody's beard off, they beat me on the

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street, I hope they never come back. Tensions remain. He showed me his

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neighbour at, dozens of looted shops, these were owned by light-

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skinned Arabs, every one of them has fled town. Accused as a group

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of being al-Qaeda sympathisers. They were all working with them.

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TRANSLATION: They had weapons for the enemy. It is a worrying sign of

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the ethnic rivalries still threatening Mali. Timbuktu's

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leaders seem confident the worst is over. We will have elections seen,

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and a transparent government. We must live together, negotiate,

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rebuild hour country. The French are still here to help out, but

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they are working on an exit strategy. Before long its own ill-

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disciplined security forces will be expected to play a leading role in

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keeping the peace here in Timbuktu and preventing al-Qaeda and its

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allies from storming back into town. That is asking an awful lot of the

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soldiers. On the outskirts of town Mali's army stands guard, deeper in

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the desert to the north of the war goes on.

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Sport now, and for a full round up of all the day's action, here's

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Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre. Thanks, Mishal, there were some

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fantastic goals in the Premier League today. Match of the Day 2 is

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the place to watch them straight after the news, but I've got the

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results coming up if you can't wait that long. Manchester City have

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lost more ground on leaders Manchester United this weekend.

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Sergio Aguero scored a brilliant equaliser for City after a stunning

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strike from Stephen Gerrard had given Liverpool the lead. It

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finished 2-2 at the Etihad. City now trail United by 9 points.

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Gareth Bale scored the only goal of the game as Spurs beat West

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Bromwich Albion to move one point behind third-placed Chelsea. West

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Brom had Goran Popov sent off early in the second half for spitting at

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a player. The draw for the quarterfinals of

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the Scottish Cup has been made, viewers in Scotland can see fifth

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round highlights on Sportscene after the news but here are the

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last eight. Hamilton will play Falkirk in an

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all First Division tie. There's a Dundee Derby. Kilmarnock are at

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home to last year's finalists Hibernian. Celtic are at St Mirren.

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Italy have caused a big upset in the Six Nations Championship by

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beating tournament favourites France It was a tight game but

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trailing 18-13 to the French a converted try from Martin

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Castrogiovanni put Italy in front. Kris Burton's drop-goal with just

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over 10 minutes to play gave them a five-point cushion that they

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managed to defend. They certainly enjoyed the final whistle in Rome

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as it finished 23-18 Italy travel to Edinburgh next weekend to play

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Scotland. A brilliant century from Charlotte

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Edwards helped England beat India by 32 runs at The Cricket World Cup.

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Her 109 in Mumbai also saw her become the leading scorer in one

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day internationals. Tim Hague reports.

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In need of a cuddle? England probably were after that a shock

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opening lost to Shuang Guo but in this match they had a mascot and a

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record breaker. Charlotte Edwards, the captain, became the leading

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one-day international run-scorer and might she smiled, the runs kept

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coming and so did the boundaries, and sooner, the century. She was

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eventually run out but the damage had been done. A hefty 273 India's

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target, then England talk through their top order, the wicket of

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captain, she claimed England had a weak bowling attack. Nothing week

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about England's knight in shining armour with this stunning piece.

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The wickets kept falling. India losing by 832 runs, a fine day's

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work for England, them Ascot and the captain. -- them Ascot. --

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there mascot. Stephen Gallacher is celebrating a

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rare win on the European Golf Tour. The 38-year-old Scot, who is the

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nephew of Former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, won the Dubai

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Desert Classic by three shots, thanks in no small part to this

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eagle on the 16th. It's only his second title in 18 years on tour

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and comes nine years after his first.

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Let's return to football. Mario Balotelli made his debut for AC

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