17/05/2014 BBC Weekend News


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Good evening. West African leaders meeting in Paris have promised to

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wage total war on the Islamists who kidnapped more than 200 girls in

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Nigeria last month. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, urged West

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African nations to develop closer ties if they want to defeat Boko

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Haram. The leader of the most populist

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country in Africa, but how much of the north-east of Nigeria does

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Goodluck Jonathan control? As the president arrived for the summit

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this afternoon, Boko Haram was wreaking more havoc in Nigeria and

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Cameroon. It underlines the regional nature of this threat. We need all

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of those countries to be bringing together their intelligence and

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information. So that this is very relevant to finding the schoolgirls,

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not just to the long-term defeat of Boko Haram. To that end, the five

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West African nation as greed to coordinate patrols and pool

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intelligence. It's been five weeks since the girls went missing. It is

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likely they've been split into smaller groups and moved across the

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borders. That's one of the reasons why you

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see all of us here meeting with the president of France to see how we

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can work together, have a joint team that will see movement to any

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countries. In a way today's summit has delivered a meaningful result

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that. Is getting Nigeria and Cameroon, the two biggest countries,

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around the same table to discuss the problem. Politically speaking, they

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don't see eye to eye. One French official told us, until now,

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Cameroon has been largely ignoring the problem, despite a growing

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number of attacks within its own borders. This French priest,

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kidnapped in Cameroon and held for two months, says finding the

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schoolgirls won't be easy. In his experience, the fighters move at

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night, and the Nigerians, he says, aren't up to the task. They are

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afraid to fight them on the ground, so they bomb by day, but traffic

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comes in the evening and there was no plane. Western surveillance is

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now in place, but does it re-assure the families who wait? Nigeria has

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ruled out a prisoner swap and there's been no progress in five

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weeks. Members of the Co-operative Group

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have unanimously backed plans to change the way the organisation is

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run. The decision follows a disastrous year in which the company

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reported losses of 2. .5 billion. The shake up was proposed by Lord

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Myners who today welcomed the vote. Our business correspondent reports.

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From across the country, they came to Manchester this morning to Sov a

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battered -- tharning to save a battered business. Today's vote

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marks the start of a long and painful process of reform. There is

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a lot to do, some of it we can do straight away. Some of it will take

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a little more time. There is some that is urgent and we have to get on

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with that straight away. The unanimous vote surprised even the

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man, whose damning report highlighted the need for massive

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reform. 100% vote is extraordinary. I thought the vote would be closer

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than this. It's a message to the board and to the management that

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they should come together rapidly with a set of proposals. But what

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exactly has been agreed? There'll be new directors with more cooperate

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experience. Members will have powers to hold the board to account.

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They'll get a vote each e, rather than electing officials to vote on

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their behalf. What difference will that have on the day-to-day

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business? One of the biggest independent cooperatives says the

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challenge is rebuilding trust amongst members. They have got to be

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sure it's an organisation which reflects their values, which they're

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proud of. I'm confident in a few months' time that feeling will

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re-e-Americaning. -- re-emerge. The vote is significant it isn't

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binding. There is likely to be job cuts, store closures and difficult

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decisions about the Co-op's founding values. Winning support for those

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could be more difficult Jubilant crowds have greeted India's

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new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, after a crushing victory by his

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party, the BJP. Thousands of people, waving flags and chanting slogans

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lined the streets of Delhi. Later he greeted supporters in the holy city

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and offered prayers on the banks of the river Ganges.

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Turkey this afternoon ended its rescue mission in the nation's worst

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mining disaster. The bodies of two more miners were recovered from the

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Soma mine, bringing the death toll to 301. 485 miners escaped or were

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rescued from the fire that devastated the mine in Soma in

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western Turkey. The chief executive of the Premier

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League, Richard Scudamore, is facing further calls to resign following

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sexist comments he made in a series of leaked, private e-mails. Heather

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Rabbatts, the Football Association's independent board member, says

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there's growing evidence of a closed culture of sexism and that there

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needs to be a review of how the Premier League is governed.

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Scientists in Argentina have discovered bones they believe could

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have belonged to the largest dinosaurs ever to have walked the

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earth. The creatures are thought to have had long necks and tails and

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have weighed around 77 tons. In the plains of Patagonia,

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Argentinian researchers made the biggest discovery of their lives,

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quite literally. Some of the largest dinosaur bones ever discovered. Here

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we have the femur, it's the largest bone from the hip to the knee. The

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bones are incredibly well preserved. The little bumps on the surface are

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what's left of the animal's ligaments and muscles. These

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creatures are thought to have been the biggest ever to have walked the

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earth. They're believed to have reached six metres in height. At 40

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metres in length. They weighed 77 tons, that's about the same as ten

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fully grown elephants. A BBC natural history unit team obtained this

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exclusive footage just as the bones were unearthed. Those bones are the

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ones that are supporting all the body weight. We need to get accurate

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estimates and measurements of these bones in order to estimate how heavy

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this animal was. Researchers calculated the size of the dinosaurs

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by measuring the circumference of the bones. 79. Wow. These animals

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were the largest of a group called tie tan sores. Titansaurs. They

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lived 100 million years ago, when giant creatures walked the earth.

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The FA Cup Final is still under way at Wembley with Arsenal in a fierce

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battle with Hull City. The score is currently 2-2.

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They say it's never as good as the first time. For Hull City fans,

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their first major final gave them plenty of reasons to sing. Inside,

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nerves were etched on Steve Bruce's face as he led his Tigers into the

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lions den. Every underdog has their day. Hull's started as lightning

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speed. A goal straight off the training ground as James chesters'

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flick gave Hull City a fairy-tale start. Bruce almost couldn't believe

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it. Arsene Wenger kitto. Arsenal -- ditto. Redenneder Curtis Davies has

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had a brilliant season and it's t was about to get better. The ecstasy

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and the agony of football. 2-0 to the Tigers and Hull's plan was

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working beautifully until Santi Cozorla got this free kick. The

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clock was ticking down for Arsenal, but with 20 minutes left, they

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scored again. Arsenal recovering from a nightmare start, 2-2. The

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game has just finished and it's going to extra time, after Arsenal

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fought back brilliantly after conceding the fastest pair of goals

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in a Cup Final for over 100 years. They had the chance to win it too in

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the last five minutes. Hull just clung on and this brilliant final,

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well, it's going the distance. Nail-biting stuff. Thanks very much.

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Earlier, St Johnstone won the Scottish Cup for the first time in

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their history by beating Dundee United 2-0 at Celtic Park. This

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report contains flash photography Celtic Park, the venue. But this was

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very much a tussle. A first Scottish Cup final for St Johnstone. United

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fans came expecting a celebration. But at the end of a first-half full

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of chances, Steven Anderson took his and sent the Saints wild. United

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came out to level. It looked like two for St Johnstone shortly after,

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but Stevie May's Maradonna impression was spotted. But then the

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goal that would make history. Steven MacLean the man to double the lead

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and kickstart a Perthshire party. That's it for now. We're back with

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the late news at 10. 15pm. Now it's time for the news where you

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