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I am Ros Atkins welcome to Outside Source. It has been a dark day from

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athletics. The man who ran the sport for 16 years must have known about

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extensive corruption. This started with the President. The President

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was elected four times by the Congress. We will hear from Jakarta

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where a multifaceted attack has killed two people and two militants

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lost their lives. Islamic State has claimed responsibility. This is the

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Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister who has been speaking to us about

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deteriorating conditions with Iran and whether peace talks with Syria

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are realistic. Three men have been convicted of this, the biggest

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burglary in British history, ?14 million worth of jewellery and

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valuables were taken and those three men looked like they will be going

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to prison. If you want to get in touch with us, you can contact us on

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Twitter. We were told the second part of a

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report on corruption and doping in athletics was going to be bad and it

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has proved. The eye double AF has been accused of covering up doping

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in Russia. It is particularly scathing -- that was scathing about

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the former President of the IAAF. The report says he

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conspiracy and corruption that took place in the IAAF and it goes on to

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say, that it could not have been more unaware of the extent of doping

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in athletics. Lord Coe is the person who took over from him. He is in

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charge and he was on that council although the author of the report

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says it is so possible he would not have known about the full details

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and they have made a point of saying he is the best person to be leading

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the IAAF. Our sports editor has given us a report. All roads may

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lead to Rio this Olympics flagship sport finds itself

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in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. Lord Coe is under mounting

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pressure after bribery allegations levelled at his predecessor Lamine

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Diack and the banning of Russia for state-sponsored doping. He has grown

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used to used to scrutiny from the media and

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today he decided to sit amongst them here in the eye of the storm at as

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the problems were laid bare. A damning report concluding that

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corruption was in bed and ad went well beyond a rogue

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delay in all sorts of things. Acknowledge this, if you cannot

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acknowledge it you cannot have known about the scale of

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cheating. Is his position untenable? What is clear is that we did

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have enough oversight on the operational

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more, we did not know more, the changes that I am going to make will

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allow the current council to know more and my successors to know more.

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Lord Coe was biased President throughout the period under scrutiny

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and questions have been asked about what he knew about Lamine Diack now

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the subject of a French police investigation and yet today came

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some much-needed support. There is an enormous amount of reputational

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recovery that has to occur here and I cannot think of anyone better than

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Lord Coe to leave that. The first report found state-sponsored doping

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in Russia and the sequel said that Lamine Diack had suggested a need

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for a deal with the country's President to insure that Russian

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athletes accused of doping would not compete at the 20 13th World

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Championships. The issue we have to confront is what we need to put in

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place and some of that is already underway which means that we never

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return to this horror show again. Lord Coe will hope this is as bad as

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his organisation at an all-time low, his organisation

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the path to re-gaining trust will not be an easy one. That is our

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sports editor. You can follow him on Twitter for updates on this story.

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Let us find out about a very high-profile meeting that has been

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happening in London, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister is in town

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along with John Kerry. They have much to discuss, Syria and the

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possibility of peace reporter has been to meet the Saudi

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Arabian Foreign Minister and find out how likely it is that those

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talks will go ahead. We hope they will, the Syrian opposition was

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covered together in an unprecedented move, they agreed on a platform and

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a vision for Syria. They agreed on a vision for Syria. They agreed on

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what the new situation will look like and they picked their

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negotiating team. Now they are ready,, it is the receipt which it

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has been dragging its feet. We hope that the talks will begin on the

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25th so we can launch the process that will lead to the establishment

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of an interim council which will assume power from the Assad regime

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and move towards writing a new constitution. We hope and expect

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that during the interim period of this transition period, President

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Assad will exit because he has no role to play in the future of Syria.

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You will have to sit at the same table as Iran, are you going to be

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able to work together now you do not have

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that the talks will be between Syrians and Syrians. We will not be

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at the table or Iran. We are committed to the process in Syria

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and we are committed to the Vienna process, the Geneva principles and

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the principles in stride in the UN Security Council

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have had talks with John Kerry, he is possibly leaving London to go to

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an announcement that sanctions will be lifted against Iran, did you have

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concerns? We have concerns about the behaviour of Iran in general. It is

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a country that has to decide whether it is a revolution or a nation

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state. If it is a revolution it is a expansionary, difficult to deal

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with. If it is a nation state, they tend to be reasonable and rational

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and know their limits and they work on the basis of what is mutually

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beneficial. With Iran, we are not sure. We do not know what kind they

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are. We hope they will be a nation state but what we have seen in the

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last 35 years is a country that has used murder, a country that has used

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terrorism, a country that has used sectarianism, a country that has

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in the region in a very destructive interfered in the affairs

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in the region in a very destructive manner. That is what concerns us.

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Equally, they have concerns about you and your behaviour in the

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region, their decision -- Michael your decision to cut off my grow the

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back of ties. Iran puts to death more than 1000 people a year. That

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is their business. We do not know why this was done. In our case, it

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is transparent. Iran argues that he was a peaceable protest, he was a

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terrorist. He was as much a man of religion as Osama Bin Laden was. He

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was recruiting, infighting, equipping, you was plotting and he

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was executing terrorist attacks that led to the death of a number of

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security officials in Saudi Arabia and that is why he was sentenced to

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death. With all due respect to Iran, they have no business interfering

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with our judiciary and the last thing they can say is that Saudi

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Arabia is engaged in aggression. We have been on the receiving end of

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their aggression for decades. Plenty to consider their and our reporter

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joins us. Let us start with the fact that he is questioning whether Iran

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is a nation state, if you wanted one piece of evidence of how bad things

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are, there it is. He makes a are, there it is. He makes a

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criticism that others make. You have the moderate reformist side of the

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regime in Iran, with those who want to improve relations with the West

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and then you look at the Revolutionary guards, one who is

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active in Syria and Lebanon and they want to know which one is Iran. I

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would say why are you meddling in other countries. They said they are

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not, they were at to come. Syrians are our allies, we are not

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meddling, it is engagement from nation state to nation state. Unless

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these major powers in the region resolve their differences, a lot of

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other things will not be resolved. One of the things I'm still

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grappling with is why they decided to execute that cleric stop the

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Saudi Arabians would have known they did not like that, they would have

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known there would have been a reaction. In the aftermath of his

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execution, it came out that the Americans had warned the Saudi

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Arabians not to do it and we are still discussing why they did it.

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say they could not for internal say they could not for internal

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reasons execute the Sunni Muslims. The decision to execute the 47

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including that prominent cleric has been popular in Saudi Arabia and

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they had to think about public opinion in Saudi Arabia. They say

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they had a case, his family would say he was not armed, his supporters

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would say he was like a spiritual leader for Shia Muslims. That he

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wanted peaceful protest. They say he did not deserve to be lumped in with

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others who were known to be linked to Al-Qaeda and carried out attacks

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in Saudi Arabia. You heard his case. One last question about the Syrian

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talks, there will be viewers here who will be forgiven for watching

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not engage with the talks, I will not engage with

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not build up hope, I do not think they will deliver anything, does

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anyone have any hope? When you're country is a big deep dark black

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hole, even a pinprick of light gleams bright in the darkness. It

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will be progress if they sit down and made but I know from having been

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in Damascus in December, talking to opposition leaders, the gaps are

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huge. The opposition wants President Assad to go and he is saying he

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not going anywhere. They have not bridged that gap. Thank you. Do

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follow her on Twitter, she will have her analysis on these stories. Let

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us talk about oil, it has rebranded slightly after the cost of the

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low earlier in the week. We will be low earlier in the week. We will be

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looking at why this is happening and why it affects all of us. Here in

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the UK, the number of armed police officers in London is to rise by

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more than a quarter. The Metropolitan Police currently has

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2200 trained marksmen and that is set to rise by 600. The force

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commissioners said that the numbers were increased by a third link Paris

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terror attacks but that additional officers were needed. Today what I

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am announcing is that in the coming weeks and months we will double the

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number of armed response vehicles. We are not talking about numbers.

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The first wave, these are officers who patrol routinely in London, they

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are always armed and they will be the first response to any attack or

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normal criminal incident involving a firearm. That will be a very

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significant change. The second change which is as significant is

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with all have a second wave of officers released from other posts

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with better training and they will take together within an hour we will

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have three to 400 officers available to deal with an attack. Welcome. Our

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lead story is that a report into corruption and doping in world

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athletics says that this man, the former chief Lamine Diack organised

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corruption within the organisation. Let us bring you some of the main

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stories. First of all, a second aid convoy has entered a town in Syria

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which was held by rebels. It has been blockaded for months and some

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residents have starved. This aid is getting in banks to a deal to allow

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aid into two other towns. BBC Africa is reporting that the Ebola epidemic

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is over. Libya area is free from the virus. There are parts that David

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Bowie's body has been privately Bowie's

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cremated in New York. That is in line with his wishes, no family and

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friends were present. His family put out a statement saying it is

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planning a private ceremony. More details through our news app. I want

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to bring you up-to-date with a series of attacks in Jakarta. Seven

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people have died, five of them were attackers. Islamic State has claimed

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responsible to, this began when a number of bombs went off in the

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morning, 10:40am local time. At one intersection in the business

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district of the city. We have marked it here, a Starbucks and a shopping

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centre. We have marked those because that is very close to where the

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attacks took place. Here is one video. Reports say there were at

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least six explosions as well as a suicide bomb attack on police. The

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attackers also had guns and they kept firing at police and bystanders

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for several hours. Police have now declared the situation under control

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and this is what the President is saying. The people do not need to be

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afraid and should not be defeated by these terrorist acts. He went on to

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say I hope people will remain calm because it is all controllable. Let

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us find out more about who might be responsible. Here is our reporter in

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Jakarta. We do know the names of the five attackers we know there are

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about their background. We do not early 40s but we do not know

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know what their links are to Islamic State or whether they were work --

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one of the many Indonesians fighting with Islamic State. Quite a lot of

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questions to be answered but the authorities even before Islamic

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State formally accepted responsibility, the authorities

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determined they were behind it. Stay with us, before we talk again, I

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want to play a BBC report on a history of radical Islam in

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let us look at this. The latest let us look at this.

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attacks come after six years of relative calm and even though the

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problem of militancy has not truly gone away. One of the most active

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groups in recent times has been a group which has its roots in the

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anti-colonial struggle against the Dutch. It was behind the most

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well-known attack in Bali which killed over 200 people including 88

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Australians. Since then, it has targeted high-profile locations such

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as embassies and hotels, attacks aimed at foreigners but ended up

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mainly killing Indonesians. A splinter group is thought to be

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responsible for the 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings that killed seven

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people. Since then attacks have lessened, some attributed this to

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increased counterterror measures by the government which has received

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funding from Australia and the US. Indonesia has also been criticised

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allowing its presence to become incubators for militancy. In August

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2014, the former spiritual head of JI released a message pledging

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allegiance to Islamic State. He later retracted the pledge. She is

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still with us and it is terrible that two people have lost their

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lives but I am guessing the authorities are relieved they

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managed keep the death toll that low. This attack was relatively

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small if you look at the number people injured, 23, and if you look

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at the number of people dead, two civilians and the other five who

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were killed when the attackers. Something has shifted here in the

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Indonesian capital, this is the first major terror attack since

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2009, two luxury hotels were targeted. In the intervening period,

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authorities have been successful at pumping down on home growing

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terrorist groups, and number of leaders have been killed and others

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have been arrested. Any attacks in recent years have been local and

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different about today is where I am focused on the police. What is

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standing and the police box that was attacked is a few metres behind me,

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you can see the condolence flowers, this is a major in their affair in

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Jakarta, this is the place you would make your point. Starbucks which is

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on the other side of the intersection,

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and major symbol of western commercialisation, this was done

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with a purpose, not particularly well organised, it was relatively

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small and over quickly but there is a sense that something has shifted.

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For a long time, there have been warnings that it is a case of if, --

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when not if. Further coverage on the website. Here is the latest

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business. The brand -- price of Brent crude oil. It had a respite

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today, after falling below $30 a barrel. This has been an awful 12

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months, all prices have not been this low for 12 years. This

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illustrates what is happening. This is the beginning of 2014, above $100

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a barrel and the beginning of 2016 and we are down at the kind of

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levels I have been describing. We have teamed up with BBC world

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service to look at what these prices mean for the biggest oil-producing

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countries. Russia has based its budget on the price of $50 per

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barrel and now the minister has said that the country

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will have to adjust its spending. Petrol prices in the country keep

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going up as oil companies try to compensate their losses. Saudi

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Arabia needs around $100 a barrel to balance budgets but because the

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prices lower, the government is cutting public spending. This

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includes infrastructure projects and public sector salaries but for now

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it is more worried about market share will stop then as well's

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budget for 2016 has been calculated on the basis of $40 per barrel of

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expected in 2015 and much lower than expected in 2015 and much lower than

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the $102 it once reached. As a result of this, the government is

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facing the worst economic crisis in modern history. It is refusing to

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take measures like increasing the price of fuel as this can have huge

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social consequences. I want to bring in my guest. They could deal with

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this by reducing supply. Why do they not do this? Absolutely. That is

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exactly what Opec has done in the past. The situation we have

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ourselves in is that Saudi Arabia through Opec does not want to cut

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output because they are trying to protect their market share. Other

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Opec members would like to do that Opec members would like to do that

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but there has not been an agreement. Really what Saudi Arabia wants to do

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is get the US shale producers out of the market, for them hydraulic

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fracking is a lot more expensive than simply pumping oil from Wales

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and Saudi Arabia has been betting it can push out US producers if they

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can hold on for a long enough. Saudi Arabia's revenues are about 70%

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dependent on oil and it is a strategy we are seeing them stick to

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and other Opec members have been fighting back against this. They

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would like to see the output cut. Given the scale of fracking is it

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realistic to undermine an entire industry miss-macro that is the

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problem. You will have analysts talking about how much this will

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affect US shale producers and if you look, there have been 30 small

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companies that have declared bankruptcy and analysts say if the

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price of oil does not rebound to $50 a barrel, a third of US producers

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can't go -- could go bankrupt by 2017. It could make a big dent in

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consider that analysts are bedecked the market is specially when you

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consider that analysts are bedecked in that oil could go as low as $20

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per barrel will stop we have heard from some oil titans in the US, one

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in particular said that all of this talk about US producers getting out

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of the game has been a bit over exaggerated. He thinks they can ride

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this out but that is one voice and we will have to see how this plays

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produce -- push them out. Did you produce -- push them out. Did you

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buy a lottery ticket? Know and I am glad I did not because there were no

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winners in New York. There was a winner in California, Tennessee and

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Florida -- Florida. There is a good chance maybe there are some people

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watching in those three states. This prize draw was worth $1.5 billion.

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David Willets from LA has been following it.

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after week, pushing the Powerball jackpot to ever greater heights.

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They have been drawing this contest twice a week since November,

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sending what started as a $14 million jackpot

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Even presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton bought a ticket.

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Nevada among them and many of its residents joined winding

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queues after travelling through the desert and crossing

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the California border to buy tickets.

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You don't have to be a US citizen to win hence there were long queues

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at the Canadian and Mexican borders as well.

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The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot were put at 292

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There was a better chance of being struck twice by lightning

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yet as the deadline neared tickets were selling at the rate of more

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Within minutes of the draw came news of a winning ticket purchased

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The chances are he or she may not be at work in the morning.

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Thank you. I will be back in a couple of minutes.

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