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Major brands are pulled from supermarket shelves

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A temporary blip or a new way of shopping?

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We ask the man who built up one of the UKs biggest supply chains.

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The election of Hillary Clinton would lead, in my opinion, to the

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almost total destruction of our country as we know it.

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Can Trump still beat Clinton?

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Is it possible that shaken baby syndrome doesn't exist?

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The pathologist who dared to ask the question faces being struck off

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- the medical establishment damning in their condemnation of her.

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Next week she appeals that decision -

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And Werner Herzog chats happily through a semi-apocalypic

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vision of the future- his latest creation - Lo And Behold.

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The Internet is a manifestation of evil itself. Are you a ring I Abaul

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a reliable narrator, Werner? Absolutely, and it doesn't matter if

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you enhance facts or change things. When Brexit becomes about Marmite,

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you can be pretty sure it will start This evening, the product emerged

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centre stage of a row between a supermarket and a supplier

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over the strength of the pound. Major household brands

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are running low at Tesco The Anglo-Dutch company is believed

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to have demanded a 10% price rise due to the falling value

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of the pound and halted deliveries to Tesco when the supermarket

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refused to pay more. This is a very big deal because it

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is about the main thing happening in the UK at the moment, the

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double-digit fall in sterling. Against all of our trading partners,

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the pound is at a historic low, and this is the fundamental fact of life

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for a bit. What this effectively means is that prices and incomes in

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Britain have fallen relatively compared to prices and incomes in

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the rest of the world, so this dispute between Tesco and Unilever

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is about who bears the burden of that. Is it Tesco and Unilever or is

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it the customer? But the pound has always been very good for exporting?

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Yes, and we made a hacker this moment as the critical moment when

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Britain change the way its industrial model works, and our

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exporters took off. Our big devaluations have genuinely been at

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the end of periods when we have had tight monetary policy. So they come

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with big listenings of policy. This devaluation is being driven by the

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fact that investors don't have as much confidence in Britain, and

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don't want a hold as much sterling stuff as they used to, so it is

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different beast. If they were right to have less confidence in Britain

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as a trader than they do it, then it will be harder for us to do it. If

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our exporters can take advantage of this change in sterling, selling

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will rise back up again. Thank you for that.

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Lord Christopher Haskins, former head of Northern Foods,

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Lord Haskins, thank you for your time this evening. We know that

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these sorts of rows emerge quite often between a supplier and a

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supermarket. What makes this time different? Because first of all

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there has been a huge build-up of tension between the brand companies

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and the supermarkets for years and years. The supermarkets don't like

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selling with brands who determine the Rawls. And you have had this

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enormous war within the supermarket between the discounters and the

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Tescos of this world, so the pressure is there. Thirdly, you have

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the online tension which affects the supermarket business generally at

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any rate, people don't want to go to supermarkets as much as they did.

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Then finally you have Brexit which throws a huge wobble, undoubtedly

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what Unilever is doing is justified in terms of the economics of it, but

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Tesco is worried that the others may not follow suit. They will have to,

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because the costs as a result of devaluation are too big for any

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company to carry. So your sense is who is going to emerge from this

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stand-off as the winner? Nobody. They are all going to lose. Unilever

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will have to suffer a little bit because the premiums they have got

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for their products won't be as big as they could be, and the Aldis of

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this world will have to put up their prices, so the relationship between

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Aldi and Tesco will be an interesting one, there is oversupply

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in the market, and this is its as abated by a price increase like

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this. If the pound is weak at the moment, this could be a temporary

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blip. This could level itself out again and we won't see these prices

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this - long. I think that is unlikely, I think the pound was

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overvalued before Brexit, and is now getting to its proper level. I

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suspect it is going to go below its proper level and there will be a

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serious problem for inflation in 6-12 months' time. So what about the

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British shopper and the effect it will have on us now? It will bring

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back to reality to people the consequences of leaving the European

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Union. It will certainly relies that whatever benefits that may be, there

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will be no economic benefits for the consumer as the result of what is

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happening. As you said, you are a staunch remain, and people on the

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other side will say, don't jump to conclusions. But in terms of what it

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means for our shopping habits, it doesn't mean we will never have

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marmite on the shelves again? No, that is where Unilever will win,

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because despite the fact that people may grumble about paying more for

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it, they will pay more, and that is the strength of a good brand. But

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then those people have less money to spend on something else, so it will

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affect shoppers' behaviour in eight substantial way, and the argument is

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which of the products will survive and which will do badly. So tonight

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we are looking principally at Tesco and Unilever. You think this is

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going to be a pattern repeated throughout supply chains and

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throughout supermarkets? Inevitably. Tesco happened to be the biggest,

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but Sainsbury will be facing the same problem, the same tensions with

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the likes of Unilever and Nestle. The interesting point is how the

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discounters who are apparently prospering at the moment, how they

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are going to deal with this situation, because they will have to

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deal with these price increases. What would be your estimate in terms

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of the increase on a family shop? The indication is, Unilever want to

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put their prices up by 10%, so if they want to do that, it is unlikely

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that the impact on inflation going forward is going to be less than 5%,

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something like that. The agricultural commodity products work

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in a different way, but I would have thought that we are looking at food

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inflation of 5% in 12 months. At what point do you think this becomes

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hard politics? I think it was HSBC who said last week the pound is now

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the de facto opposition. If you see this in terms of Theresa May's

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comments or statements about a hard Brexit in March, do you expect her

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to modify that language to change the date, or is that now set in

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stone? I think that is a big question. The politics seem to have

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overtaken the economics in the last ten days. The economics may be

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hitting back now. The moment the great British public realises there

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is a real cost to pay for Brexit, the Government will have to take

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account of that, and I suspect in the middle of next year, that is

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exactly the situation we are going to be in, or there will be a crisis

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and politicians who want Brexit, never mind what, are going to have

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to think again. You know the inside story of how a supply chain works. I

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am expecting a lot of people will be surprised to hear that marmite was

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imported, or any of the other products that are not made here. Do

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you think we will start buying more locally now? There is a limit, we

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have always been big importers of food, 40% of our food is imported.

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You can do a little bit in terms of improving domestic production, but

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that could have happened at any time, there is no particular reason

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why each would strengthen now. Like the doctors, we suddenly say we need

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those extra doctors, we could have had them five years ago, but

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suddenly because of Brexit we want them. There are fundamental

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structural issues which will not go away by a knee jerk reaction to

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leaving the European Union. Lord Haskins, thank you for joining us.

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Can Boris Johnson stay on message four days in a row,

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the Prime Minister quipped just a week ago.

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The Foreign Secretary finds himself at the centre of his first

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discomfort after he called for protests outside

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the Russian Embassy as a response to Moscow's actions in Syria.

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This was him in the House of Commons yesterday.

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I would certainly like to see demonstrations outside

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If Russia continues on its current path, then I believe that great

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country is in danger of becoming a pariah nation, and if President

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Putin's strategy is to restore the greatness and glory of Russia,

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then I believe he risks seeing his ambition turned to ashes.

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The Foreign Secretary stands accused tonight by Russia of Russophobic

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hysteria - there's a word you never knew existed.

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Then this afternoon Jeremy Corbyn's spokesman suggested protestors might

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just as well target the US embassy, which he said was just as guilty

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Plenty there to put to Oksana Boyko of TV channel RT, previously

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Thank you very much indeed. I know it is late where you are. Have the

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remarks hit home in Moscow? Absolutely they hit home, not only

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in Moscow but also in Paris, his French counterpart questioned

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whether it was really the job of a Foreign Minister to call for public

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agitation or to organise public demonstrations, and this theme has

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been really taken up either Russian Foreign Ministry. The spokeswoman

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said that that played into Russia's long-held perception of the British

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foreign policy and intelligence establishment trying to manipulate

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public unrest and trying to use civil society for their own less

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than honourable goals. I don't know if the BBC audience knows, but there

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has been a well established evidence of a number of British agencies

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trying to run social media accounts for the opposition, supporting the

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so-called rebel groups in Syria by providing arms or by providing

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training... We don't know... Or at least not objecting to the policy.

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We have no evidence of that. But let me ask you simply, is Boris Johnson

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welcome in Moscow? Well, Russia will deal with any official. We do not

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have this concept of welcome or not welcoming anyone. Russia's Foreign

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Minister Sergei Lavrov just today said that Russia is planning a

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meeting this coming Saturday with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, and

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those are countries that have enormous differences with Russia

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when it comes to Syria, but Russia is ready to engage anyone if that

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will help to bring peace to Syria and to minimise the civilian death

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toll. So if Boris Johnson wants to do that, I'm sure he will be

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welcome. It is very interesting, Oksana, to hear Jeremy Corbyn's

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adviser saying he thought the ball might as well protest the US

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embassy. Is he right? Well, again, I am not in the

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position of deciding who is right or wrong, but if you actually cover

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that conflict and you try to be objective, and look at this conflict

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from all the sides, you would recognise that every major power

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that intervened in that conflict has committed mistakes, let's put it

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that way. I don't know if they could be called war crimes, but Americans,

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Turks, Russians, Syrians, they did indeed kill civilians on the ground.

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If you look at the American advance on my beesh, there are lots of

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reports of mass casualties there, so if you look at the act of all

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parties, you can see that all of them have the actions that have led

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to civilian casualties. D6 Putin is scared of protest outside the

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embassy is? LAUGHTER

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The question is maybe very British, but the answer would be very

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Russian, no, he's not. Thanks for joining us.

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This time next month, whatever happens overnight,

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the world will be looking at a brand new US President.

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Tonight, Donald Trump contemplated losing for the first time,

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telling voters that if he failed to win the Presidency it would be

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the single greatest waste of his time and money.

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So much of the last year has focused on the personalities

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A billionaire businessman and reality TV star

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and the first woman ever to have made it this far.

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But tonight, after a couple of extraordinary new polling

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numbers, we want to bring you the State of the Race

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Is it still possible for Trump to win?

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And why might the battleground states now include places that

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haven't changed their political allegiance for the last 60 years?

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It is not just the images which are the same every election, but that

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most of the states vote the same way by miles, red for republican and

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blues a Democrat, so the Republicans will always get Texas and the

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Democrats always get Delaware. This is a reminder of how Obama was

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victorious in 2008. Taking those traditional

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swing states of Ohio and Florida. Romney just managed to take Indiana

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and North Carolina off him. And even in this, the year of Trump,

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a lot of projections of the result Except over the last couple

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of days, two extraordinary Today's poll has Trump at just 26,

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level with Hillary Clinton, and only just outstripping

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the independent candidate, McCain won it with 59% of the vote,

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Romney with 55% to Obama's 41%. Now Trump is beating Hillary

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by just five points there, and this guy is winning the race

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there with the under 40s. What would you do if you were

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elected? About Aleppo? What is Aleppo? You are kidding? No. This is

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a big crowd. The winner is the first to reach 270 electoral college

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votes, the trouble for Donald Trump, even if he holds everything that

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Mitt Romney won, he is still 64 votes short, and Clinton comes to

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the race with a blue walk at the last six elections have seen 18

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states plus Washington, DC always voted Democrat, that is around 220

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electoral votes even before the race even starts. It could be there are

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shy Trump supporters out there who are not telling pollsters what they

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really think, but if that is true that there needs to be an awful lot

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of them to deliver him the presidency.

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Joining me now, Democrat pollster Celinda Lake from Washington DC

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and Republican strategist and pollster Frank Luntz -

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who works continuously with focus groups -

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Frank, I heard Trump speak of the massive electoral disadvantage she

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has, is that right in mathematic terms? -- he has. The Republicans

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have the bondage in terms of who comes out to vote, but the polling

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only matters in terms of who comes out to the polls -- have the

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advantage. It is almost impossible to move. He has deteriorated so much

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in the last ten days that it will be a serious uphill climb if he is to

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make it close on election day. The Democrats must feel they have this

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comfort ring, the blue wall, if she is already on 240, what you make of

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polls like Utah and Alaska which almost like they could be in play?

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-- do you make. We have polled for the Utah Democratic party and I

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would say that is very much in play. These are idiosyncratic states, Utah

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has a heavy more modern population, religious group which Mitt Romney

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was a part of, and which has despised Donald Trump from the

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beginning. Gary Johnson has real appeal there. There is no question

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Trump has put into play states like Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina,

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that have not been in play before, and I think the interesting question

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is what happens down ballot. The presidency, while not be taken for

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granted, and my good friend Frank is right, the Democrats have to focus

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on getting their vote out, but the question on the table is what

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happens underneath. Where do the disaffected voters go in the Senate

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and the house races? A spectacle it, presumably. What about postal voting

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and early voting? -- a split ticket. About a quarter is done ahead of

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time, and some states it could be 40-50%, a state like Oregon, which

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votes 100% by postal ballot, but make no mistake, the election has

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already gone and the voting has all the begun in the central states and

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even though Donald Trump did relatively well, I use the term

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relatively in the last debate, his negatives are so high and the

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hostilities towards him so great across the country, he will need an

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absolute... I don't use a home run, but he will need, if you can help me

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with cricket. Poker, inside strip. That is better. You have got to

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watch Florida, Pennsylvania, Clinton is now up, and Ohio, where they are

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even, and only one state Iowa, where he is leading, which is a

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traditional democratic state. I mentioned this idea of the shy Trump

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supporters, we are very sceptical of pollsters in this country, is it

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possible that we have just overlooked this, and that there is a

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very good ground war and a passion which replaces a ground war which

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could carry him through? There is no ground war, that will carry him

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through, the grassroots organisations are in a shambles.

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There is a very good ground ball on the side of the Republicans. You are

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right, there are two things going on, and I also believe in the secret

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Trump vote. In online surveys he does better, than in person surveys,

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especially with women. You could ask how could any woman vote for Donald

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Trump? But the other thing, who is going to turn out to vote? There are

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enthusiasts on beat Trump side who will turn out to vote, but Democrats

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have a great grassroots organisation -- the Trump. We will fight to get

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the unmarried people and the people of colour out. If there is a big

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female vote which doesn't admit to pollsters that they actually quite

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like Trump. I have been challenging that. They are very few voters who

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are undecided, they are uncommitted, the differences undecided are going

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back and forth between Clinton and surname Aqua, they are not many of

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those that, but the uncommitted say they will not vote but they haven't

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committed to a candidate -- Clinton and Trump. She is winning the

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uncommitted vote by two to one. The working-class votes at which has

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been the bulk of the Democratic support for the last 20 years, Trump

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is doing better amongst them the most Republicans ever do. And that

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is the only thing he has got left which could put him over the top.

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You would still call the Republicans the party of the right or has that

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disappeared? We would call the Republicans the party of the wrong.

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Yes, they are the more Conservative Party and that hasn't disappeared.

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In presidential politics it is also about character and about

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temperament and who is qualified to lead. And whether you have the

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character to be president, and in the end I think a lot of women in

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particular will ask themselves to things, is this man a bully, can I

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let my daughter watch the President of the United States on TV? Do I

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trust this man with the nuclear" Mark three check marks against him.

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-- the nuclear codes? What about the turnout question of what is this

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doing to political discourse and how willing people are to spend the

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money on the bus? It is giving everyone a headache, everyone is

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feeling like a child of divorced parents who does not want to live

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with either of them, make no mistake, 53% of people have an

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unfavourable opinion of Hillary Clinton, that's never happened to a

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democratic candidate, but it just happened 63% have an unfavourable

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opinion of him. If Trump had been locked in the Tower of London jail

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for a hundred days he would have been elected because the election

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would have been all about her. Now, she's not defending Hillary Clinton,

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she is attacking Trump, if it is about him, he loses, if it is about

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her, she loses. So they should both shut up. And God help us all. Thanks

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for joining us. A pathologist who questioned

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whether Shaken Baby Syndrome exists will appeal next week

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against a decision by the General After 32 years in her job,

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Waney Squier was denied the right to practice after she was found

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to have strayed beyond her field of expertise - accused of giving

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deliberately misleading She claims that she's been silenced

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because she challenges the establishment -

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and the medical orthodoxy around When is it right for doctors to

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challenge established science? That is the test for the judges next week

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when pathologist Waney Squier appeals against being struck off.

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She is coming here to the Appeal Court to try and clear her name.

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Seven months ago the General Medical Council through the book at her.

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They called her irresponsible, dishonest, and a liar, but she says

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she is only in trouble because in an out-of-court she dares to call

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Shaken Baby Syndrome rubbish. Around 250 people a year face criminal and

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family court cases on the basis of Shaken Baby Syndrome. The theory

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goes that the babies who suffer three symptoms together, blood over

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the brain, bleeding behind the eyes, and brain damage, must have been

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violently shaken. But sceptics like Waney Squier said there is no good

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science behind the theory. We got in touch with a number of experts who

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regularly give evidence for the prosecution of Shaken Baby Syndrome

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cases but none of them would appear on Newsnight. Now 350 scientists

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have written to the British medical Journal questioning the decision to

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strike doctor Waney Squier off and they include Professor Peter Fleming

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the man who cut cot deaths. And a pioneer of evidence -based medicine.

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And an internationally renowned paediatric pathologist. On Shaken

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Baby Syndrome the two sides could not be further apart. In March GMC

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said that doctor Waney Squier's evidence was deliberately

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misleading, dishonest, and it had the potential to subvert the course

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of justice. Her fellow pathologist disagrees. The problem is that in 40

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years we have not been able to demonstrate the traditional theory

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of Shaken Baby Syndrome and other things that were not considered

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before are being demonstrated like shortfalls cabbages similar

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features. -- can reduce similar features for the signs of archers --

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science advances frequently for the they were upset they were losing

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cases because of defence experts like her questioning Shaken Baby

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Syndrome. Do you still give evidence in these cases? No, I don't. Why

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not? Because I'm afraid of the possible consequences. Did you

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believe this day would come when you were inside? No. In March Newsnight

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spoke to Suzanne Holdsworth, her conviction for the murder of toddler

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Carl Fischer was overturned after Waney Squier re-examines the

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evidence. It felt like I'd won the lottery. It was amazing. Something I

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never thought I would do. So if it wasn't for people like Waney Squier,

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people like me with the imprisoned still. -- would be in prison still.

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Today there are few experts willing to challenge Shaken Baby Syndrome.

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In cases where science effectively determines guild or innocence, how

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fair can a trial be if the defence scientists are silenced in court?

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It is the real case of science against the law, the tribunal was

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pretty damning in what it found. John went through that. You have

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been reckless and irresponsible. That is correct, yes. You don't

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think they shouldn't be looking into you in this way, presumably? It is

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the role of the GMC, to look into this sort of complaint, but I

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challenge the determination and I'm taking this to appeal and that will

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be held next week. Do you accept any of these findings, that your

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research did not support your opinion, that you went outside your

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field, you were looking at things you shouldn't have? No, I don't. But

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I think... I don't want to discuss by own case now because it is coming

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to appeal next week and I don't think it is appropriate for me to do

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so. There are far more important issues we need to discuss and that

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is the fact that there is the evidence to support this hypothesis

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of Shaken Baby Syndrome and yet it is still being used every day in our

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courts as the basis on which is very important decisions are made about

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whether people might go to prison or babies are going to be taken away

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from their families. What should they use, then, if they

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are going to try to ascertain what happened? If they say your research

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doesn't stand up and you say their research is not solid enough, what

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should they go on? We need a thorough independent review of

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shaken baby syndrome. The courts need to know that there is no

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scientific evidence to support it. There never has been. It has been a

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hypothesis for 40 years, and research over the last four decades

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has not provided any evidence to show that this hypothesis has any

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validity at all, and it is not right that it should be still used in

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courts when it hasn't any validity, and this must be investigated. We

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need to have a real, full inquiry into it. Why would the GMC go to

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these lengths? This isn't a personal vendetta against you, presumably, it

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is a council trying to get the job right? The circumstances of the

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complaint against me were that the police were concerned that they were

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losing convictions because people like me were popping up and

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challenging shaken baby syndrome, and there have been attacked on

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people who challenge shaken baby syndrome not only in this country

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but in the United States and around the world, because we are a minority

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and we are challenging what is a mainstream hypothesis. And what do

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you think will happen as a result of if you are struck off, if the appeal

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doesn't go your way? It is very concerning, because as we have

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already seen, other people who would be in a position to come and give

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evidence in the courts in these cases won't do so. There are many

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people who could give very helpful evidence to the courts, but they are

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frightened to do so because they may suffer the same fate, which leaves

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us in the shameful position where our courts cannot get defence

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experts to come and assist in these cases where parents are being

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accused of abusing their infants. But it seems like those on the

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shaken baby side won't talk either. This sounds like an extraordinarily

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dangerous position to be in where we don't know how to get to the truth

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of this because both sides are either being silenced or choosing

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silence. And that is obviously wrong. If the other side don't wish

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to speak, why not? We need a public debate, a public inquiry to see what

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is really behind shaken baby syndrome and if it is suitable to be

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used in court. Waney Squier, thank you for coming in.

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You know how we like to send you off to bed with a song in your heart?

:33:47.:33:50.

Well, how about this: a solar flare will one day turn the Internet

:33:51.:33:53.

haywire, leading to the end of civilisation as we know it.

:33:54.:33:56.

That cheery prospect is raised in a new documentary, Lo Behold,

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by the acclaimed and idiosyncratic filmmaker, Werner Herzog.

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He'll be talking about it as part of a UK wide screening of the film

:34:02.:34:05.

tomorrow night at the BFI London Film Festival.

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Here's our own inscrutable cineaste, Stephen Smith.

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We have a certain reverence. In his adventures in the Internet with

:34:11.:34:23.

artificial intelligence, Werner Herzog's gift for the unexpected

:34:24.:34:28.

doesn't desert him. He finds a robot maker in love with his star centre

:34:29.:34:33.

forward. This year is robot eight. Its pattern includes four green dots

:34:34.:34:39.

on top, and it is one of my favourites, actually. Beautiful. Do

:34:40.:34:49.

you love it? Yes, we do. Menus night met the jet-lagged but pretty much

:34:50.:34:52.

in control Werner Herzog earlier today, we asked a well-known

:34:53.:34:54.

football fan if robot layers could be the real thing. If robots becomes

:34:55.:35:05.

mechanically so good that they can run like a human, then they can do

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it, because strategically, they are very far advanced, and you see

:35:11.:35:16.

computer programmes, how for example they have a free kick, and how they

:35:17.:35:21.

strategise positioning, it is very impressive. Sooner or later,

:35:22.:35:27.

somebody would have to teach them how to cheat. They may already be

:35:28.:35:35.

cheating. We do not know exactly. But we do know that whatever is

:35:36.:35:40.

within human beings will eventually end up on the Internet, and in our

:35:41.:35:48.

anonymity, the human race is a very vile and very debased, and it is not

:35:49.:35:54.

the Internet that is debased, it is the human people. Werner Herzog's

:35:55.:36:03.

beautifully composed oeuvre, which I have done my best to emulate, is

:36:04.:36:09.

surrounded by fan boy reverence. Is it possible that somebody has missed

:36:10.:36:15.

the humour? When you are sitting in the theatre, you feel the rubles of

:36:16.:36:18.

laughter, nobody can miss the humour. The biggest laughter is when

:36:19.:36:23.

you have dissed monks in saffron robes against the empty skyline of

:36:24.:36:31.

Chicago. Then we met some stragglers left behind. They are all on their

:36:32.:36:38.

smartphones. Have the monks stopped meditating? Have they stopped

:36:39.:36:44.

praying? They all seem to be tweeting.

:36:45.:36:56.

Laughter doesn't stop from beginning to end during this sequence. It is

:36:57.:37:03.

like our programme! That is good to. We wanted to get a quick exterior

:37:04.:37:11.

shot of Herzog in his native habitat. There is probably a long

:37:12.:37:14.

German compound noun to describe his good cheer in the face of adversity.

:37:15.:37:22.

Nobody cares about my films. The example... What is that? The last

:37:23.:37:27.

time he spoke to the BBC, someone shot him with an air rifle.

:37:28.:37:34.

Strangely enough, I seem to be a statistical anomaly. I have

:37:35.:37:36.

attracted disasters. You would never guess from close kin

:37:37.:37:50.

ski's tentative performance that he and director Hertzog what always at

:37:51.:38:01.

loggerheads. There was the steamship that Herzog hauled over a mountain.

:38:02.:38:06.

Nobody believed in moving the ship over the mountain. A delegation of

:38:07.:38:11.

actors and technical people came to me.

:38:12.:38:18.

Give it a go! And tried to dissuade me from my own

:38:19.:38:30.

madness. And it was suspicious. The only thing that counts is what you

:38:31.:38:36.

see on the screen. When he is not directing, Herzog has

:38:37.:38:44.

been known to lend some middle European menace to the multiplex.

:38:45.:38:49.

You say nothing, but I see defiance in your eyes. That is a look I have

:38:50.:38:53.

seen many, many times when the soldier comes and you watch how he

:38:54.:38:58.

dies, it will change you. You will want to forget me then.

:38:59.:39:02.

Sources close to Herzog told us he wouldn't disparage an offer to play

:39:03.:39:13.

James Bond baddie. Let's close with an aphorism.

:39:14.:39:18.

It is better to ask the question that is deep and strange and

:39:19.:39:22.

unexpected than having an answer to everything.

:39:23.:39:27.

Werner Herzog on the rights of question to ask. Let's just take you

:39:28.:39:32.

through the papers before we go. In the times, a story that ministers

:39:33.:39:36.

are hiding a report on migrant numbers, it suggests that only 1% of

:39:37.:39:40.

international students break the terms of their Visa by refusing to

:39:41.:39:45.

leave, research which they say threatens to undermine Theresa May's

:39:46.:39:52.

plan to crackdown on student recruitment. They also go with the

:39:53.:39:55.

Marmite row. The Financial Times has the story about the UK facing ?20

:39:56.:40:01.

billion Brexit divorce Berlin Brussels budget wrangle, and it also

:40:02.:40:08.

highlights the Marmite. The Daily Mail has why did Will Young walk-out

:40:09.:40:16.

on Strictly and Theresa: I'm siding with Britain's who voted for Brexit.

:40:17.:40:23.

Now don't go away - No Such Thing As The News

:40:24.:40:27.

But we leave you with a postscript to the current craze for dressing up

:40:28.:40:31.

In Whitehaven, Cumbria, the local fancy dress store has

:40:32.:40:35.

deployed someone dressed as Batman so the local children can sleep

:40:36.:40:38.

But based on our brief research, we think it might not end well.

:40:39.:40:44.

You shouldn't have made Captain Clown mad!

:40:45.:40:51.

OK, captain! Give it the old heave Ho.

:40:52.:41:16.

This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

:41:17.:41:26.

Good evening. High-pressure has dominated the charts, but low

:41:27.:41:30.

pressure is coming our way.

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