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After the Westminster attack - the government steps up pressure

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on internet companies over access to encrypted messages.

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Khalid Masood is thought to have been using WhatsApp moments before

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he killed four people - the Home Secretary says

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We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp -

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and there are plenty of others like that - don't provide a secret

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place for terrorists to communicate with each other.

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As the investigation continues, there's been another arrest -

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a 30-year old man from Birmingham is being questioned.

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Also tonight - after reports that an air strike against Islamic State

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caused scores of civilian deaths in Iraq, we'll have

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Among the casualties of the battle for the city -

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two young boys in this field hospital.

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Most of those we've seen being brought in are children,

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they've been injured by air strikes, and also by shelling but the staff

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here tell us they also receive a lot of patients who've been shot

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In Moscow, hundreds of people are arrested after the biggest

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opposition rallies in Russia for years.

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And England beat Lithuania at Wembley in their

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The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has increased pressure on internet

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companies in the wake of the Westminster attack,

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warning them not to provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate.

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It's understood that Khalid Masood, who killed four people on Wednesday,

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was using the secure WhatsApp messaging service shortly

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Our security correspondent Jonny Dymond reports.

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Our technology companies doing enough to combat terrorism? That was

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the question raised today, especially when it comes to

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encrypted communications. Coloured cannot pass on content of messages,

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because they do not have access to encrypted data. Today, the Home

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Secretary said it was not good enough. We must make sure that

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organisations like WhatsApp, there plenty of others like that, do not

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provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each

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other. It used to be that people would steam open envelopes or listen

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in on phones when they wanted to find out what people were doing

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legally, but we need to make sure that our intelligence services have

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the ability to get into situations like

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encrypted WhatsApp. Police say they are worried that technology

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companies are designing systems that will not allow for traditional

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surveillance. At the heart of this is inconsistency between the ability

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of police to lawfully intercept telephone calls, but not when those

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messages are exchanged via social media messaging boards, for example.

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That is an inconsistency in society, it surely is, we need a solution

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through appropriate legislation. But, encryption is getting more

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popular as it protects ordinary people's data from hackers and

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criminals, helping to preserve privacy. That makes some nervous

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about giving the state new powers to restrict it. They have huge powers

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of investigation already and there is a question of always balancing

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the rights to know, the need to know, with the right to privacy.

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Phones, as well as messages, can be in cryptic. After a terrorist attack

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in San Bernardino, America, there was a row between Apple and the FBI,

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who wanted a phone unlock. We don't know for sure in this case

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of police could access Masood's phone yet. It might help to once a

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whether he really did act alone, as police think. Encryption is an issue

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law enforcement and the government have long worried about. In the

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coming week, technology companies will be meeting with officials from

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here, at the Home Office, in a previously scheduled meeting.

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But encryption is only one of the issue is whether government wants

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technology companies to do more. The wealth of extremist content posted

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on websites is a high priority for the government, which fears is

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radicalising effect. It wants companies to find the material

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themselves and take it down, rather than wait for it to be reported to

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them. There's no sign of new legislation in the wake of this

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attack. Police have just got new powers over data, but authorities

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may be hoping that they can put enough pressure on technology

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companies to change their behaviour. Gordon Corera, BBC News.

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There's been another arrest in connection

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with the investigation into attack, with a 30-year-old man from

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The police believe Khalid Masood acted alone on the day,

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but have been appealing for more information from people

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Our Home Affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports.

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It took little more than a minute - a crude assault

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on the heart of Westminster which left its victims in its wake.

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Khalid Masood mounted the pavement on Westminster Bridge

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at just after 2:40, according to new information from the police.

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He drove fast, sending people running for cover,

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and 30 seconds later crashed into railings.

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Someone managed to make the first 999 call within 21 seconds.

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But Masood was out of the car and, after attacking a police officer,

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was shot dead half a minute later in the grounds of Parliament.

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From start to finish, it had taken 82 seconds.

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So those are the facts, but why did it happen?

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Tellingly, police now say they may never know

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the answer to that question, but they are looking closely

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at Khalid Masood's life in an attempt to discover

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Today, yet another home was being searched

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near his most recent address in Birmingham.

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One man who lives around the corner is still in custody.

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We know Khalid Masood had a violent past,

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when he may have adopted extreme political views,

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possibly while serving a prison sense in 2003,

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possibly while serving a prison sentence in 2003,

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or during two periods living in Saudi Arabia,

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or after moving to Luton around 2010, at a time of confrontation

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between young Muslims and right-wing activists.

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The kind of people who commit terror...

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The answer to that question - why - could be complex.

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There can be anything between 15 to about 28 different reasons,

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different tell-tale signs, and my argument has consistently

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been that the Government has obsessively focused on one,

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which we refer to as Islamist ideology.

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Ideology is important, but it is but one factor.

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This tragedy has again led to questions

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about the Government's strategy to fight radicalisation.

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Those who have to spot tomorrow's potential terrorists

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Birmingham remains a focus in this investigation, the last place where

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Masood lived. The man who has been arrested, a 30-year-old, in

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Birmingham, he is being questioned on suspicion of preparing for terror

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acts. The 58-year-old man arrested days

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ago is still questioned in custody and a 32-year-old woman, released

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from custody on bail. Most of the searching of addresses

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going on is coming to an end but I think this really is the end of the

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beginning. STUDIO: Tom Symons, thank you.

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Iraqi forces are intensifying their assault against so called

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Islamic State, as they attempt to drive them out of western Mosul.

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Thousands of people have fled the city in recent weeks,

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and there are conflicting reports about who was responsible

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for scores of civilian deaths in a single incident last week.

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The US says it's investigating but has stopped short

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With the city still divided between IS and the Iraqi army,

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our correspondent Orla Guerin has been to a field hospital

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Behind him, a boy of the same age, hit by a mortar.

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Brought together in a field hospital by acts of war.

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Not safe at home, not safe when they flee.

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Ambulances have been arriving every few minutes.

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Most of those we've seen being brought in are children.

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They've been injured by air strikes and also shelling, but the staff

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here tell us they've also received a lot of patients who have been shot

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They don't want people to leave, and they

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don't care whether it is a child, man or an old woman.

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Everybody is being shot as they try to escape.

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People are saying it takes two Isis militants to really keep an area

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under control, and prevent civilians from going anywhere.

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They want the civilians to stay inside to remain

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This man tried to break free with his younger

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brother, but his brother was targeted by an IS sniper.

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This footage filmed by hospital staff shows the anguish of Abdullah.

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His five-year-old granddaughter, Sara, is in the body bag.

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But those who escaped the battlefield are bringing

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accounts of other innocent civilians.

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Allegedly killed by their liberators.

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Victims of bombing raids, by Iraqi and coalition jets.

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Akram Mahmood insists that his brother was one of them.

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On the right, he says that his brother was a truck driver,

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and not a militant, and his guide all his life.

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Hamad died on his own doorstep, he tells me.

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Five men were killed with my brother, he says.

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The slogan from the authorities was "We are

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coming to rescue you, to free you from IS".

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In reality, my brother has been killed, and lots of families

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And in the camp nearby, the broken and the displaced

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After years of IS tyranny, and months of

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warfare, one more hardship for the people of Mosul.

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Orla Guerin, BBC News, Northern Iraq.

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Talks in Northern Ireland about forming a new power-sharing

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government have collapsed, just ahead of a tomorrow afternoon's

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This evening, Sinn Fein walked out of negotiations saying they had come

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to the end of the road, raising the possibility

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Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Belfast...

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What is the most likely outcome? Technically, tomorrow the storm on

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to send a supposed to meet by 4pm to elected Deputy First Minister, but

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Sinn Fein made that clear that was not going to happen. They are left

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with two options, to hold another election, the third in just over a

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year here, all tentatively, they could put in place direct rule,

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where Westminster takes over the running of Northern Ireland for a

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period. But I think short term, they will delay decisions and play for

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time which has practical consequences, not least when it

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comes to budgets. It will leave doubts over spending, in terms of

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public money for the next while, and that is a real concern. In the last

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few days, the Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has

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sounded optimistic, saying a deal was possible by tomorrow but

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practically tonight, it seems there is little basis for that optimism.

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The DUP and Sinn Fein are as far apart so other parties have

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suggested these talks have gone nowhere, and now he and Theresa May

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face the reality that there is a real crisis at Stormont and have to

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consider the possibility another election, after what was a pretty

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divisive vote earlier this month, could lead to problems becoming

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worse rather than better. Chris Buckler in Belfast, thank you.

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The head of Britain's biggest union - Unite -

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has said that Jeremy Corbyn should be given 15 months to see if he can

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Len McCluskey is standing for re-election as the union's

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Mr Corbyn says Labour is ready for a general

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Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn's said he'll oppose the government's plans

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to change European laws without full parliamentary scrutiny

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when they become part of UK law because of Brexit.

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The government wants to include the powers

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in its Great Repeal Bill, more details will be

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Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth has the story.

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Some still might not want it, but Brexit is beckoning.

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The majority voted, and the government is about

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Parliament will see the historic moment this week, followed by

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details of the government's plan to give control over UK laws to

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Some warn as this complex work begins, MPs must be involved.

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We are not going to sit there and hand over

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powers to this government, to override Parliament, override

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democracy, and just set down a series of diktats of what is going

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It will introduce a Great Repeal Bill,

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bringing EU regulations into domestic law.

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Everything from environmental legislation to

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Then, regulations can be changed or abolished after

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The bill will also include powers for the

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government to amend some EU laws during the process, without full

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The government has already faced battles

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over Parliament's role in the Brexit process,

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looks like it could be the next big skirmish.

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Some MPs and peers fear that they could be cut out of key

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The government insists that they will have a say and says

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major policy changes, like new immigration

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The ministers say that they do need the power to make small, technical

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tweaks, like unpicking some of the EU terminology.

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It will be a limited and defined power.

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Not to act like a dictator, but by secondary

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And the scope, the definition of those powers and

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when they can be used in what circumstances, that is something

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Parliament will have to approve in voting through the Bill itself.

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Some resistance to the bill is likely,

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the sheer complexity of Brexit means very little will be plain sailing.

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Tonight, as the government prepares to launch the formal process of

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leaving the interstate a few days' time, there is another warning from

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the European Commission chief negotiator about the consequences of

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failing to reach an agreement on the terms of Brexit. The government has

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said it is confident of getting a good deal, there's inevitable

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positioning on both sides but one thing on which they agree is that

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this will be a hugely significant negotiation, not just for the UK,

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but for the EU too. Alex Forsyth, thank you.

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Thousands of Russians have joined rallies in cities across the country

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to protest against corruption and call for the resignation of

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Several hundred demonstrators were arrested by police in Moscow,

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including the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

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The Kremlin has not commented on the demonstrations.

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Our Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, sent this report.

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There were moments today when Moscow resembled a battlefield.

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Russian riot police broke up an anti-government protest,

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on what was a day of demonstrations across

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In Moscow, they detained more than 500 people.

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Earlier, police had poured into the city

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centre, warning that the protest was illegal.

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Still, thousands of people packed into Pushkin Square, accusing

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the Russian government of corruption.

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The level of corruption is too high in Russia right now.

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It is hard to live in a corrupt atmosphere.

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I have children, grandchildren, and I cannot breathe

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These people have come out to protest against government

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corruption, but the message which this is sending to the crowd

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is that fighting corruption is not a

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Among those arrested, Russian opposition leader Alexei

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He says he intends to run for president next year.

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Whether he will be allowed to isn't clear.

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It was Alexei Navalny who had called for today's nationwide protests.

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People took to the streets in more than 100 towns and cities across

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In many cases, defying bans by the local authorities.

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These were some of the largest protests Russia

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President Putin still enjoys strong support,

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but he can't take that for

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More than 30 people have been injured, two of them seriously,

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in what's suspected to have been a gas explosion on the Wirral.

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The blast caused extensive damage - it could be several days before

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people who live in the area are allowed to return

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Linsey Smith reports from the scene.

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The scale of the devastation shows just how powerful the explosion was.

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One of the three businesses that stood here was a dance studio.

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Just an hour before, it had been full of children.

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This sound of the building blowing up was captured

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There is a multitude of injuries that have happened,

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but the two patients that have gone through to the major

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trauma unit at Aintree, they've had significant injuries.

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Within one of the damaged homes, Christine Pickup had been

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I don't know how we walked out of there.

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I think the children, because their bed is slightly higher

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than the low windows in these old houses, the blast lifted

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the mattress up and threw it over the children,

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cos they said they felt things hitting them,

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but they weren't bruised or sore, and I think the mattress just saved

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Police are now leading an investigation.

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A number of local people say they smelt gas yesterday and on Friday.

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National Grid engineers are at the scene and say they have

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With the scale of damage here, many residents will spend at least

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The community here say they are shocked by the events of the last 24

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hours, but it will be some time before the quiet residential

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areas back to normal, not only does the rubble

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from the damaged building have to be removed, but beyond that

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there are homes who simply have no windows or doors because they were

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That means there will be people here who are displaced for some to come.

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It was an afternoon of qualifying matches for three home nations.

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With all the sport - here's Karthi Gnanasegaram

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England have beaten Lithuania to move five points clear at the top

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of their qualification group for next year's World Cup.

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The 2-0 win included an opening goal from Jermaine Defoe playing

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in his first international for over three years at the age of 34.

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Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports from Wembley.

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A day to put football firmly in perspective.

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Armed police on duty as Wembley struck a poignant note.

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Outside, the flags at half-mast, inside, the team is led out by

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five-year-old cancer patient Bradley Lowry

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victims of Wednesday's terror attack, wreaths laid in the centre

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The match itself seemed straightforward for England, it

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Lithuania at 100s of an the world rankings.

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The recall Jermain Defoe slotting England ahead.

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But Joe Hart 's mistake nearly gifted Lithuania and Equalizer, John

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Stones clearing off the line. In the second half, substitute Jamie Vardy

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meant England could finally relax. Not many thrills, but the job was

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done. After all of the motion before the match, this was a subdued

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performance from England, but the win keeps them firmly on course for

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the World Cup next summer. Andy Swiss, BBC News, Wembley.

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The Scotland manger, Gordon Strachan had said they must

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win their game against Slovenia to stand a chance of

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And with three minutes of the game remaining,

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Chris Martin scored to give Scotland a vital three points.

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They're now in fourth place - in the same group as England.

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Northern Ireland are in second place behind Germany in their Group

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Jamie Ward scored Northern Ireland's first goal after just 90 seconds

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with Conor Washington adding their second.

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Lewis Hamilton is aiming to win a fourth Formula One World

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In today's first race of the season in Australia, he started on pole

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position but finished in second place behind the Ferrari

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A new season, and for Formula 1, the start of a new error. The cars are

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bigger and faster, and still some sites that may feel rather

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familiar... Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes beginning at the front.

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That's one. Staying there is the challenge that never changes. Then,

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there comes a certain time of pressure, and for Lewis Hamilton, it

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was coming from Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari, a battle of speed that

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would ultimately be decided by a stop.

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Hamilton wanted new tyres, allowing Sebastian Vettel to take the lead.

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The Brits left with first ratio among the traffic. We need to get

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past Max Verstappen. I don't how to get past this guy. The hold-up

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allowed the Ferrari to get in and out without losing the lead. For

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Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team, the chance was gone.

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A comfortable victory for Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton in second. If it is

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a new era for the sport, it means there is the rivalry that will come

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to define it. Adam Wilde, BBC News. That is all of the sport.

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