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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.

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Stories today from Lebanon, El Salvador and Luxemburg.

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We will start in the UK because David Cameron has been in Parliament

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defending those proposed reforms on the UK's relationship with the EU.

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In the single market come free to travel around Europe, part of the

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normalisation Bercow operational security and trade can make Britain

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and its partners safer and more prosperous. Donald Trump was beaten

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in the caucus on Monday but now Mr Cobb is accusing the cruise campaign

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of committing voter fraud. We will be live in our newsroom in

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Washington, DC. A fascinating story about Luxembourg, its Government is

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taking a leading role in mining asteroids. We will display on what

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that is and to South Africa because the country's president has agreed

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to pay back some of the public money that went on this vast private

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residence that he has. Help on that story from BBC Africa and as you're

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watching, if your online you can tweet us. All of your questions and

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comments come straight to me here. Yesterday we got a draft of reforms

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to the UK bus migration shipped the EU will stop today it was David

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Cameron's first chance to make his case to Parliament that this is a

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good deal for the day you could stay in the EU. If we stay Britain will

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be in the keeping a lid on the budget and protecting our rebate and

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stripping away unnecessary regulation and seen through the

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commitments we have secured initially negotiation. In ensuring

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that Britain truly can have the best of both worlds. In the parts of

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Europe that work for us and out of those that don't. In the single

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market, free travel around Europe and part of mobilisation Bercow

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operational security and trade can make Britain and its partners safer

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and more prosperous but with guarantees that we will ever be part

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of the euro, never a big part of Schengen, never be part of a

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European army and never forced to bail out the Eurozone with our money

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and never be part of the European superstate. The Prime Minister says

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he has secured Britain's is Quaison from Schengen, AE you army and be

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used superstate. The Prime Minister is living in a Neverland, we have

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never argued for those things and don't intend to. We need to work

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with our allies in Europe took -- achieve the more progressive reforms

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people need to build a more democratic Europe that delivers

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jobs, prosperity and security for all of its people. We must do this

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together, that is why when the referendum is finally held we will

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be campaigning to remain a member. I begin by asking the Prime Minister,

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does he now agrees that once this smoke and mirrors sideshow deal is

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finally done we will get on with it and end the uncertainty and the

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referendum will be held on June 23 2016. Let's look at a possible

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timeline. Mr Cameron will spend the next few weeks lobbying European

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leaders ahead of the 18th of February, when the European Council

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next meets in Brussels. That is the council that represents all the

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leaders of EU members. If there is no agreement then then attention

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should shift to the next meeting of the European Council on March the

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17th. Let's assume that there is an agreement. Then the UK Government

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must give at least 16 weeks notice ahead of this in a referendum Mr

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Cameron is committed to. That takes us into June 20 16. Jeremy Corbyn

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refers to one possible date. If there is not an agreement at the

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European Council meeting in the entire Ford could be delayed to 2017

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and that gets complicated because we have French and German national

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elections coming along and the vote must happen before the end of 2017

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because that is the commitments has made. Chris Mason is alive from

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Westminster. Listening to those clips of Mr Cameron and the Leader

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of the Opposition you might get the impression that MPs are supportive

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of staying in the EU? It is more corrugated than that's? Yes, the

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British Prime Minister has started a project that will continue all the

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way to referendum day, whenever that is because we don't yet have a date,

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but the end of June is looking the most likely. What he is having to do

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is persuade his sceptics who do not think he has enough out of this

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renegotiation. The British newspapers this morning, many

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absolutely scathing. A good number are traditionally very Eurosceptic,

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not entirely convinced by the UK's position inside the EU, but their

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language was vicious in suggesting this renegotiated deal he has

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secured was a delusion and stank, in the words of the sun, the biggest

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selling paper in Britain. A user might of persuading. David Cameron

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wants to lead the campaign for the UK to stay in the EU and as things

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stand, very roughly, because opinion polls are treated more sceptically

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than one year ago given a surprising general election last year, very

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roughly around one third are thought to be absolutely for staying in, one

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third for absolutely coming out at a crucial third in the middle to be

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thought over, that is what the campaign will be about. Is there

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wiggle room either for the UK or the 27 other members, or is this

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proposal reasonably fixed? I lived and worked as a correspondent in

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Brussels for a couple of years and there is always wriggle room in

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Brussels. You could probably name a street wriggle room in Brussels,

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given how much scope there is there because you have 28 countries around

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the table and the all have their competing interests as different

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electoral timetable is back home and governments can change colour very

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quickly, therefore the priorities of individual countries vary. The

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concern that the British Government will be because at the moment there

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is this proposed deal, not an actual deal, the danger for them is they

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slip back and have to make further concessions. Those arguing to leave

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the EU are highlighting what they see as that being a real danger.

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There is a flip side, I suspect David Cameron will want to pull a

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political rabbit out of a hat, something he can say is a headline

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grabber. A game changer. Don't know what that would be yet, perhaps

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something to do with sovereignty? Injuring the British Parliament can

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be absolutely supreme over the EU? How that works without having a

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clustered -- constitutional chaos is not necessarily straightforward but

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there is wriggle room. Thank you. From one political story to another,

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this is really interesting. Donald Trump is accusing Ted Cruz's

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campaign of fraud. Remember crews pushed into second place in the Iowa

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caucus. I don't have time to read you everything he has posted, let's

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deal with three. He follows that with a demand the

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state of Iowa should disqualify him. And just in case you thought he was

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not pulling any punches, he goes on to say: This is a letter from the

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cruise campaign telling people entering the caucuses that this is

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the press reporting Ben Carson, one of the candidates in the race for

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the White House, is taking time off. Very interesting. That was not true,

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then Carson is very much still in the race. Let's go live to

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Washington, DC and speak to Jane O'Brien for the BBC. All very

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intriguing. What does dead crews say -- Ted Cruz say? Be said it's not

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about fraud but simply that tech then Carson was going on to Florida,

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according to a news story. And that his campaign staff were acting on

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that and he has apologised for them and says the entire idea that there

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should be recount or that it was fraud is essentially total nonsense.

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I think, more importantly, who are we speaking about just now? It's not

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Ted Cruz, the man who actually won in either well, it's the man who

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barely came second, Donald can. This is really what it is all about.

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Donald -- Donald Trump accuses him of stealing the election, but Donald

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Trump has effectively, yet again, stolen the show. In terms of PR

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perhaps Donald Trump has a march on Ted Cruz and in terms of the

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authorities, would they look at this? Might it have broken the

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rules? I don't think it did break the rules. It is means --

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misinformation at best. Basically what happened is that when Ben

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Carson said he was suspending his campaign, that information did get

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passed on. But it was a fact that at that point there were a news stories

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saying he was going to Florida and that he was not going to be at the

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caucus. Technically they were correct, although the way they

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presented the information could be clearly seen as misleading. Whether

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it would have made much difference to the end result, we want to know.

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Again, most of the candidates are looking to New Hampshire, where

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Donald Trump has a commanding lead, and if he performs to expectations

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he should handily win New Hampshire. It is interesting that he has

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decided right now to start calling foul instead of really consolidating

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his position where he stands a very good chance next week. Rarely a dull

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moment in this campaign. Thank you. We appreciate the update. Our next

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story is from not very far from Washington. President Obama visited

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a mosque today, the first time he has done that in the US since he

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became president. The police he went was the Islamic Society of Baltimore

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in Maryland. Baltimore and Washington are not far apart. Here's

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the introduction. And now, it is my honour to introduce to you the

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president, our president, of the USA, President of Barack Obama.

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First I want to say two words that most Americans don't hear often

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enough, thank you. Thank you for serving your community, thank you

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for looking up the lives of your neighbours and for helping keep us

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strong and united as one American family. We are grateful for that.

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APPLAUSE Let's add some context. It's

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estimated there are 3.3 million Muslims living in the US and I

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wanted to show you this, it marked the number of attacks on mosques in

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America this year. The thing I want to draw attention to is this, a

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spike in the number of attacks in November, thought to be connected to

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the Paris attacks. This is based on data from the council on American

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Islamic relations and it says there has not been as many attacks since

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2010. We were in Baltimore with the president. This is the first time

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President Obama has visited an American mosque. The Islamic Society

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of Baltimore. He has done so because he feels American Muslims need to be

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reassured, given the current climate, and they have been lobbying

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for a visit like this. Because of the rise in anti-Muslim feeling

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after recent attacks because of the rise in anti-Moslem rhetoric on the

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presidential campaign trail, so this was meant to be a symbolic show of

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solidarity with American Muslims and a pushback against that sort of

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thing. President Obama and rebuke what he called inexcusable political

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rhetoric against Muslim Americans and he made an appeal for religious

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tolerance and said buyers and stereotyping must be confronted and

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also repeatedly spoke about how Muslim Americans are fellow

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Americans who are part of the country and have contributed to it

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and should not feel that they are made to be outsiders. Thank you. In

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a few moments we will turn to the story that has cost my imagination

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more than any other today. We will explain why Luxembourg is investing

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heavily in the prospect of mining asteroids. More on that in a moment.

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The only sign of the infamous British aristocrat Lord Lucan is

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being guarded a death certificate for his father more than 40 years

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after the dispute following the murder of his children's nanny. His

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son to journalists outside the High Court after the ruling. The most

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bizarre range of theories, some of them reasonably tasteless. My

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personal view, one I took as an eight-year-old, is that he has been

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dead since that time. I would think in these circumstances it is

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possible he saw his life at an end, regardless of guilt or otherwise of

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being dragged through the courts, it would have destroyed his personal

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life, career and chances of getting custody of his children back. It

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might well have pushed a man to end his own life. But I have no idea.

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Welcomed outside source and the BBC newsroom. Let's look at our lead

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stories. David Cameron is defending his EU reform deal. The deal has

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been Greste size by some MPs, including some in his own party. It

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can bring you some of the stories from the BBC World Service. First,

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let's go to China because tens of thousands of rail travellers,

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incredible scenes, they were stranded in the station and have

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finally managed to get on the move. Problems were caused by snow, but

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extra services have been laid on and people are getting home head of

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celebrations for the lunar New Year. BBC Somali has this footage inside

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an aeroplane after a large hall appeared in its these lies. Has to

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say they heard a bang just after take-off, despite this deeply

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managed to land. There were worrying reports of one person being sucked

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out of the airline says all passengers were accounted for.

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Thousands of you have been watching this video of a cyclist being

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knocked off by this, that happened in Nottingham. The police have been

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of little -- unable to approve -- to confirm who the driver was, even

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though the number plate was clearly available. As I mentioned,

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Luxembourg has announced its intention to support the mining of

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asteroids. You heard that right, the mining of asteroids. This is a small

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nation in Europe and I was unaware until today that it had a prominent

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position in the space industry, but it does and its next move is to try

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and become a hub for space mining companies. The reasoning is because

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of platinum group metals. Chinaman itself including palladium and

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iridium. All of them are rare on earth and are worth an awful lot. I

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spoke to Jonathan Amos to find out if people have mind asteroids

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before? No, but we have been to asteroids and we have collected

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little bits of material off the surface and we have brought it back

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to Earth. The basic technologies for mining in space has improved in that

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sense, we just need to scale it up and there are American companies

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that are looking at doing this and Luxembourg have thought, hang on, we

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want want Europe to lose -- we don't want Europe to lose out, we want in.

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The things they get from the asteroids must be hugely valuable to

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justify the costs? Absolutely. The cost to dollar per kilogram is

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enormous for platinum group metals. They tend to sink towards the centre

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of the Earth on our planet because they get is dissolved in Malton

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irony and the iron has gone to the centre, but if you go to some

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asteroids, the abundances are much greater and that means you don't

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need to bring back on off a lot of material to be able to put it on the

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international markets and burn a tidy sum. The question is, can you

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do it in a way that brings enough back to cover the costs of launching

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what would be a very expensive respecting mission. Why are the

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metals and so expensive? What we do was to get them back? Just open your

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smartphones, they are all in there, everyone driving a car has probably

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got a little platinum in the back, it is part of the cashless cleaning

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the emissions. Everything in industrial society now has got a

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little nod towards some of these materials and they are out there.

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It's just a question of someone having the gall to go and get them.

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There are some legal issues to get through, the framework needs to be

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put in place, Luxembourg says it will do that. It wants the

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entrepreneurs take the risk but says it has funds to invest in our

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industry and even some of the companies if they come at a site

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themselves in Luxembourg. Let's assume all of this goes very well,

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what is the timescale? How soon might this be happening? Crystal

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ball stuff, I think we will see some demonstrations probably in the next

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ten years, but it is quite a time into the future before we have

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mining colonies on a large rock parsing errors. Intriguing. More in

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the science section of the BBC News website. Time for a business. Let's

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start off by learning about the biggest foreign acquisition ever

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made by a Chinese company. A Chinese firm owned by the state is buying

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seen gent -- Syngenta. This is a sign of how China's corporations are

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flexing their muscles on a global 's Gale despite the talk of their

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economy cooling. This company is the largest chemicals firm in China, it

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has a key mandate amongst a wide range of things involved in but part

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of it involves pesticides and it's cheap mandate is to improve the

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protection of Chinese crocs. Ayes chief mandate. Many expect that is

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why it is so interested in buying this Swiss firm, essentially because

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it's a company that is big in a page is protected scenes and this would

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be a potentially good wheel and that -- good deal and a good way for

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tired to sustain its fruit sauce going forward. As do the inevitably

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have a competitive advantage because they have the might of the Chinese

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State behind them? Security will definitely be a concern in this

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deal. If you look at it, the more cynical people are worrying about

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what it means that perhaps the company is using this as a way to

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get a foothold in the US, because seen gent -- Syngenta, which an

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American firm had tried to buy and failed, is also a good -- big player

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in the US in terms of pesticides and seeds and there is some concern

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about what security of poses, the fact it would control these patents,

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is the kind of thing that regulators worry about. In terms of the Chinese

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economy, should we see this as evidence of progress or does the

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actions of one company not really inform a great deal about the state

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of the broader economy? It goes back to that point I said about what

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China is trying to do with his food security. Think about it in terms of

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this is a country that is growing increasingly prosperous and as many

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people, to poverty the demand for food is growing, which poses a

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challenge for the Government, how to improve food security. One way if

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you look at a company like this, if it's able to buy more sophisticated

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seeds that can help modernise China's farmland long-term, then

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it's a case where you have the Government's agenda and the company

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coming together. Thank you. We appreciate that. Ford has announced

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job cuts here in Europe. Most likely this will hit major hubs in Germany

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and the UK. We do not have precise details but we know the company is

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trying to save in the region of $200 million, it is also refreshing

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because it is putting on sale and has announced five new models. And a

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new ad campaign has come out as well. Let's get analysis from the

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BBC. Number one in the UK for 40 years in terms of brand and Zebre

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etc but has been losing money in Europe the many years and 2015 was

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the first time it turned that around. Ayes -- in terms of brand.

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They want a sustainable, profitable business and what I read that to

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mean is that we need to get better at doing what we are doing and we

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need to sharpen up our focus, meaning we need to get more products

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out there in the growth areas and let's look at our cost base and see

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what we can do is train that's down to make sure that whatever the

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global economy is going to throw at us, that we are in a sustainable

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position in Europe. Thank you. One other thing is a story on the BBC

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News website. This is Jonas Savimbi, former Angolan rebel leader who is

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dead and he is on the page because his family is suing the makers of

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colleges the over how he has betrayed in the game. They say he is

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prepared as a barbarian and the game makers say he comes across rather

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favourably. If you want more information about this, go to the

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BBC News website and go to technology. Next, I want to tell you

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about the end of a 16-year-old mystery about it deep sea creature

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that resembles a discarded pro. Four. It is called Xena to Bele and

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since its discovery no one could work out what it was. Now we know.

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Or Professor Greg has from the script Institute of oceanography in

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the US does. What was surprising was we found them in unusual places like

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hydrothermal vents and one we found next to a dead whale carcass. We

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think they like these places because there is lots of their prey, the big

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bivalve molluscs. We don't understand how they eat. Our

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nickname was purple socks, if you think of a sock you have taken off

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and thrown on the floor, they literally look like that, or a

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deflated balloon that is just laying down and they are pink or purple and

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they glide along very slowly on the bottom. They hold their position

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with muscle, the moment they relax pages look like this deflated

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balloon or a crumpled sock and in spite of this, I think the very

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interesting to look at for the first time, no one has looked at them in

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nature, so we have the first images of it in its own environment. There

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you go. In the next half we would hear about the biggest football

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transfer in January and for the first time it was made by a Chinese

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club. We will see you in a minute. Some of the biggest weather stories

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around the world now, after the US, where over the last day we had

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tornadoes in Alabama from this active weather

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