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The Chancellor says a plan of action will be unveiled this week to

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devolve more power to Scotland, if there's a vote against independence.

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With only ten days of campaigning until the referendum takes place,

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One poll has put the yes campaign ahead.

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You will see in the next few days a plan of action to give more power

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to Scotland, more tax powers, more spending powers, more plans

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If the no campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering

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substantial new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days

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before polling day? We'll be asking about the mood

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at Westminster, amid Also tonight, the cease-fire holds

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in eastern Ukraine, despite exchanges of fire between government

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forces and pro-Russian rebels. President Obama says America is

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ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State, as more air

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strikes target militants in Iraq. And Scotland are beaten by the

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World Champions in their Scotland's First Minister, Alex

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Salmond, has accused the Westminster government of "panicky, last-minute

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measures", after the Chancellor, George Osborne, said a plan

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of action is about to be unveiled, devolving more powers in the event

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of a vote against independence. Mr Osborne said a timetable

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for devolution would be made public In recent days,

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the polls have narrowed. A YouGov poll in today's

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Sunday Times has put the Yes Our Special Correspondent, Allan

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Little, is in Glasgow tonight. The leader of the better together

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campaign, Alistair Darling, has said today should be what he called a

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wake-up call for any pro union supporter tempted to believe that

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this referendum campaign was a foregone conclusion, and that every

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vote will count. That one poll you mentioned, giving the yes campaign a

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narrow lead for the first time, has put a jolt of electricity through

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this whole business, with many in the yes campaign starting to believe

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that that very energetic campaign they have been waging not so much on

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television campaigns between political leaders but on the

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grassroots level for many months now is starting to pay off at the right

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time. It is what the yes campaign were saying six months ago, that

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they would come from behind and draw level in the last two weeks and then

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take the lead. Back then, it was easy to dismiss as wishful thinking.

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It doesn't look like that now. If the prounion parties are not

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rattled, then they should be. They insisted again that a no vote would

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not mean a vote the no change, but now getting that message across and

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being believed is certainly more urgent. You will see in the next few

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days a plan of action to give more powers to Scotland, more tax powers,

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more spending powers, more plans and powers over the welfare state, and

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that will be put into effect. The timetable for delivering that will

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be put into effect the moment there is a no vote in the referendum. Was

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that riven by this? A you go of poll that gives the yes campaign a lead

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for the first time. The direction of travel seems clear. The commanding

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14 point lead that the no side enjoyed so long seems to have

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evaporated in a month. Both sides need to realise that they are

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approaching something of a crisis of credibility. We are now in a

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position where 51% of people say they do not believe what the no side

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say about the currency, and that number has kept on increasing the

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more the no side have insisted that they are not bluffing. All three

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prounion parties have already promised to transfer more powers

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from Westminster to Holyrood. Labour wants to give more power. The

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Conservatives go further to give Holyrood personal control of income

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tax. The Liberal Democrats say they would allow the Scottish Parliament

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to raise most of their own taxes. Scotland has known for some time

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what the three prounion parties plan to do to transfer more powers to

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Holyrood. The Conservatives for example announced their plan to

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devolve income tax more than three months ago. George Osborne today did

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not announce a new plan, he announced that there would soon be a

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timetable for implement in the existing plan. It increasingly looks

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as if the no campaign thinks people in Scotland are daft. If the no

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campaign parties had any serious intention of delivering substantial

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new powers for Scotland, then why has it taken until ten days before

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polling day with the poll showing yes in the lead for them to come up

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with this? This is a critical, even dangerous, moment for the prounion

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campaign, for the yes campaign is increasingly convinced it is going

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the way that months ago they believed a word. It is possible to

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say now with any certainty who is in the lead, it is really too close for

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that, but there is not much doubt about where the momentum is tonight,

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and where the growing confidence is. It is with the yes campaign. Let's

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turn to our political editor, Nick Robinson. What is the mood at

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Westminster? Are the parties rattled by what they are seeing in the yes

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campaign? Of course they are. We carved a week, month after month,

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Westminster politicians, whatever party they had been in, have been

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really confident in private that no would win. Yes, of course they would

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have to get the vote out, but they were certain no would win. This one

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poll, even though Alan has been telling us it could prove to be

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wrong, this one poll showing a yes lead has had the effect, along with

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the closing gap, of making Westminster politicians and

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everybody realise we could be ten days away from the end of the United

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Kingdom. A constitutional crisis the like of which this country has never

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seen, shaking institutions from the monarchy to the Armed Forces,

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through the business community and of course shaking the two key

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political parties who formed governments in this country for so

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long. The key fightback that they are planning, that George Osborne

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was alluding to, is trying to convince people that if they vote

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no, they still get change. You will get a timetable for some form of

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constitutional convention, which will consider more powers for the

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Scottish Parliament, in other words. But the problem and confusion today

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is that these rival political parties don't agree who should

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announce it, where it should be announced, quite what the

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announcement should be. It is a bit like if you had to have your friends

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who were planning the break-up, and you called in three people who are

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barely on speaking terms and said could you sort it out? George

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Osborne and Gordon Brown and others trying to come to an agreement is

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not easy. One last thing, Michelle. Part of this yes vote surge appears

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to be a loathing of politics as usual and Westminster politics.

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That's why it's so hard for the no campaign.

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And for more on the Scottish independence referendum,

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including the latest polling, follow our coverage at bbc.co.uk/news.

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There have been more clashes between Ukrainian forces

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and pro-Russia rebels in Eastern Ukraine, threatening

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The agreement is still in place, despite fresh shelling today

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That came after rebels bombarded government positions in the port

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Our correspondent Fergal Keane reports from there.

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A sustained barrage to break the cease-fire. We felt the power of

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explosions rumble across the city. And in the light of morning, the

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bloody aftermath. An army truck still smoking. The civilians in this

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car were hit as they approached a checkpoint under shellfire. This

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checkpoint is the closest to Mariupol city centre. It's about ten

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Minutes Drive that way. The fact that the rebels have been able to

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shell this area has substantially increased people's nervousness. They

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feel the war is now coming to them. For the people of this area, the

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cease-fire held out the best prospect of peace. But it seems to

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be rapidly evaporating. Reinforcements arrived, but Russian

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backing has given the rebels a big military advantage. Ukraine says it

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has been promised weapons and military advisers by some NATO

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countries, but the threat of attack is imminent. Are you going to be

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able to hold them back? If we will be attacked, we will react

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objectively, so we will defend ourselves, and defend our territory.

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Then panic near the checkpoint. The shelling started again. But as

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people fled past us, one woman was refusing to leave. She is the aunt

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of two children killed by shellfire just before the cease-fire. Two days

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ago, we tell the story of how Carolyn, aged six, and ten-year-old

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Nikita were cut down. Now they are aunt was trying to get home to find

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clothes in which to bury them. Last night when the bombing started, she

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told me, we ran into the corridor. My daughter was crying. She has been

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really affected by the death of her two cousins. These are rebels

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besieging government troops at the main regional airport at Donetsk.

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Fighting here has breached the cease-fire. Houses in rebel

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territory were hit by shellfire. As the war flares again, the People's

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struggle against its destructive power. TRANSLATION: I don't know why

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this has happened. There is no cease-fire and there never will be.

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Despite the breaches, neither side is willing to formally declare the

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cease-fire over. And, in parts of the East, there is calm, and some

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hope. But as tanks deployed near Mariupol, the sense of foreboding

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was hard to escape. President Obama says America is

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ready to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, and

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that he will set out his plans to He says he wants to explain to

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the American people What I want people to understand is

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that over the course of months, we are going to be able to, not just

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blunt the momentum of ISIL, we are going to systematically degrade

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their capabilities, we are going to shrink the territory that they

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control, and ultimately were going to defeat them.

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Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in Washington.

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Is this the beginning of that elusive strategy, then, John? We are

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getting there slowly, aren't we? President Obama has effectively

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three domestic audiences he has needed to win over, the American

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public, the Congress and the third is himself. And it looks like he is

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finally winning that particular battle. It wasn't that long ago that

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he was talking about Islamic State as being minor league terrorists,

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and that he had no strategy to deal with them. On Wednesday, we'll hear

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the detail of how he plans to degrade, diminish and ultimately

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destroy them. Two things he is at pains to make clear that he won't be

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setting out is that he won't be announcing that there will be tens

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of thousands of American troops being sent there to fight on the

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ground. And the second thing is that America won't be acting alone, he's

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very keen that this should be seen as a huge cross country Alliance,

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involving all sorts of other people, involving the UAE, Turkey, Saudi

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Arabia. And just one other thing to note, use choosing to make this

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announcement on the EE of the 13th anniversary of -- on the EE is of

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9/11, a date that shows no other like the vulnerability of America to

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terrorism. Police trying to find the missing

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schoolgirl, Alice Gross, have Specialist divers have been brought

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in to search a canal in Hanwell, west London, where

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the 14-year-old was seen before she Detectives are continuing to

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question a 25-year-old man Protests have taken place in Calais,

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over the continuing influx Riot police were deployed,

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as two separate groups of activists, one from the extreme left,

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defending the migrants, and another from the extreme right,

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marched through the French port. From Calais,

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Lucy Williamson reports. CHANTING

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Sunday afternoon in Calais. And far left protesters are taking on the

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riot police. We are protecting -- they are protecting the fascists,

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they charm. This is who they are talking about: Far right activists,

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gathered at the town hall, just 15 metres away, come to shout their

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opposition to the growing number of migrants camped around the town.

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Neither side can resist a glimpse of the other. Behind these police here

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are the far right protesters, and just across this road behind me are

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some far left protesters. They have just been separated by the police

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but it really tells you that anger here in Calais is growing over this

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issue, and now it's trawling in groups from outside as well. Some of

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these are Calais residence. Others travelled from Paris or elsewhere in

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France. Officials say this is not a local problem, and the solution must

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be shared too. We are blamed by everybody that situation but nobody

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wants to deal with it. Nobody wants to deal with it. Calais is not a

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destination. They don't fall from the sky in Calais. I think they

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could fall from the sky somewhere, that would probably be in England.

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But Calais is where Europe's open border system ends. Britain's border

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fences are the first migrants in counter after landing in Italy or

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Spain, and some are asking whether that needs to change. For the

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migrants own demonstration today, a football match. No riot police here,

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just Sudanese jungle taking on the dream team. Nobody is quite sure who

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is winning. We are against the fascist demonstration, that is why

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we want our rights, our right is peace, our right is freedom, freedom

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of choice. Dream Team, we are told, was a reference to their dreams of

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England. The match, a game where chances are made and rules are

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broken, all for one elusive goal. Time now for some sport.

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Scotland's campaign to qualify for Euro 2016 has started with a defeat.

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They lost 2-1 to Germany but it was a gutsy performance from the Scots

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against the current world champions. Christmas dockland reports. Unbeaten

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in six games, Gordon Strachan's side and 5000 travelling fans could dare

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to dream in Dortmund. Despite early Germany domination, Scotland had

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their chances. It provided hope but also provided the home side with a

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reason to switch gears, and having missed an earlier header, Thomas

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Muller was not in a mood to miss the second. The travelling fans, though,

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were refusing to panic. Just a minute after the break, Steven

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Naismith came agonisingly close to equalising. Then Ikechi Anya

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sprinted onto Steven Fletcher's through ball, composed himself and

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all of a sudden Deutschland had become Dreamland for the Tartan

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Army. Scotland had the world champions on the ropes. Before

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flower of Scotland was finished, Thomas Muller divided the sucker

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punch. The Scots refused to bow down, James McCarthy should have

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done better. In the end it was defeat, but a message from Scotland:

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The gloves and the jackets are off in the fight for a place at France

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2016. Northern Ireland got their European campaign up and running

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with an impressive 2-1 win in Hungary. All the goals came in the

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closing quarter. Kyle Lafferty scored the winner with two minute

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ago, as the team secured their first away win in 18 matches. Lewis

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Hamilton recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix,

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finishing ahead of his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg. The pair

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collided in Belgium two weeks ago, and today was another high-pressure

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battle. The Mercedes fallout from Belgium dominated the weekend at the

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historic Monza circuit. The drivers were told to adopt a more cautious

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approach. Would that be the case? COMMENTATOR: Lights out, away we go,

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the battle between the Mercedes team-mate is on. Hamilton's lead

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evaporated in seconds due to another mechanical failure. Instead of

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sulking, the 2008 world champion clawed his way back from fourth to

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second. This brave manoeuvre on Felipe Massa meant he could now

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attack Nico Rosberg with 43 laps remaining. The Britain's pace and

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consistent pressure perhaps broke the nerve of Rosberg. Hamilton's

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chance to take the lead of the Grand Prix and he does at! For Hamilton,

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the sixth win of the season was particularly satisfying. Mo today I

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still had a problem but to be successful with that problem is a

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great feeling. Even more in powering. With just six races

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remaining, Hamilton is back in the title race but he still needs to

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claw back 22 points. This win will at least make him believe it is

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possible. Mo Farah has become the first British man to win the Great

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North Run since 1985. The double Olympic champion held off Kenyan

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Mike Kigen to take the half marathon title in a new record of exactly one

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hour. Britain's Gemma Steel came second in the women's race.

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Cricket, England's women completed a T20 series whitewash of South

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Africa, before England's men won their 2020 match against India. It

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came down to the last ball. India chasing 181 to win. They needed a

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six, but MS Dhoni's effort did not quite get there and England won by

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three runs. That is all the sport. You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel.

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