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

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Stories tonight from Canada, Bangladesh and North Korea.

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We'll start with the top story in the UK.

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David Cameron has ruffled a few feathers with his comments

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We have got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries

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coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most

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The Nigerian government says it's shocked and embarrassed.

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We'll hear from our Diplomatic correspondent.

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Also Bangladesh has executed the leader of the country's largest

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We'll hear from BBC Bengali in Dhaka.

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A BBC investigation has discovered that over 1700 unidentified people

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have been buried in unmarked graves, after dying while trying to cross

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We've the BBC's latest report from North Korea.

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The ruling party's congress has finished with this parade.

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And the last ever match at West Ham's Boleyn Ground

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is happening right now before they move to the Olympic

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We were update you on the game. Last time I checked it was 1-0 to West

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We'll go to Dhaka to hear about the execution of the leader

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of the country's largest Islamist party.

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That dates back to France in 1971. -- crimes.

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Also get an update on the wildfires in Canada.

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The better knews is that the city at the heart of them isn't

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Later this week the British government will be hosting a major

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international conference aimed at tackling corruption.

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And this clip has emerged of David Cameron talking

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to the Queen about some of the countries attending.

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Just to explain who you can see in the clip.

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As well as the Prime Minister and the Queen, this

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is the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow,

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the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Chris Grayling,

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So what the truth to Cameron's assertions?

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Every year Transparency International ranks

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countries on corruption, this is the latest table.

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Afghanistan is third worst behind North Korea and Somalia.

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Joint 136th of the 168 countries on the list.

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The BBC spoke to the head of Transparency International

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who said the UK had to do more as well.

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It is true that Nigeria and Afghanistan have had major

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corruption problems, and they continue to have them.

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At the same time, we have leaders in those countries that

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have sent strong signals that they want to change that.

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And let's remember, this is also important for the UK,

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because the UK continues to provide a safe haven

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for corrupt money, both here and in its

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A couple of pictures that are relevant. This is how much the

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British Government is giving to Nigeria, ?241 million a year, $347

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million, the third highest recipient of aid from the UK. Afghanistan gets

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?145 million a year, $209 million. A Nigerian government spokesperson has

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spoken to the BBC and they are saying they are deeply shocked and

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embarrassed by Mr Cameron's remarks. They say the British Prime Minister

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may have been referring to previous governments. It may have been, but

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it did not look that way. Here are the thoughts of James

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Landale. He clearly did not intend it to be filmed, but what he says is

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not untrue. Afghanistan and Nigeria have a corruption problem. Both

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countries acknowledge that and their leaders acknowledge that. That is

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why they have come to the summit this week. They have written about

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this problem in a group of essays that are going to be published. What

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the Prime Minister said was not factually inaccurate. However,

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sometimes telling the truth in such blunt terms as this can be terribly

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undiplomatic and the Afghanistan 's and the Nigerians will be miffed.

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Some people might be surprised to hear such a frank conversation with

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the Queen. The Prime Minister and the Queen had their audience in

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private every week. This was a reception to mark the Queen's

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birthday, so it was in public in as much as there was a camera there and

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David Cameron acknowledged there was a camera present. But when the Prime

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Minister and the Queen get-together they talk frankly about all the

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issues. The Prime Minister sees her every week and the Queen has the

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right to consult, to ask questions and to give warnings in private.

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That is a constitutional right and duty. The Prime Minister is probably

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used to being as frank as that with the Queen, but perhaps not always in

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public. Given the challenges the Panama papers leak has raised, I am

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guessing there has to be more frank talk from David Cameron and other

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political leaders when they all come together. The big test of the summit

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is will it be a talking shop? Will they go away and say we are tackling

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corruption, and will there be something specific? What I am

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expecting is some kind of agreement over more transparency. This is what

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people see as the solution to long-term corruption. For example,

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following a property that is owed in the United Kingdom by foreign

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companies, shell companies, who hide their ultimate owners. There is a

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high bar for this summit. You can get full coverage of that summit as

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it plays out later on this week. The leader of Bangladesh's largest

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Islamist party has been The offences committed

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by Mohteoor Rahman Nizami all date back to 1971

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and Bangladesh's Liberation Mohteoor Rahman was executed in

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Dakar's Central prison. His family members met him for the last time a

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few hours before the execution. He will be buried in his village home

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in northern Bangladesh. The 71-year-old was convicted of rape,

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murder and genocide during the War of independence in 1971. He was

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accused of setting up a militia force which helped the Pakistani

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army to identify and kill pro-liberation activists and leading

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intellectuals. Different groups were supporting the war crimes trial and

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victims families have supported the execution. They think Justice has

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been done after 45 years of independence. But the supporters of

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Mohteoor Rahman think the war crimes trial was initiated to destroy the

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Bangladesh. They say they never Bangladesh. They say they never

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committed war crimes. The supporters of the victims' families have long

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been demanding justice. The Prime Minister set up the war crimes

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tribunal in 2010 to try the war criminals in Bangladesh.

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Let's return to the wildfires in Canada and better news.

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Alberta province has been hit hardest and the city of

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But authorities now think 90% of its buildings have survived,

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that's considerably more than had been expected.

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But the scale of the fire is still huge.

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This is an aerial shot above the city.

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All of the grey smoke is evidence of fires. But this picture was taken at

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a higher altitude and you can see the extent of the fires, not just on

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one side of the city, but dotted around in all directions.

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This image is from Fort McMurray and is taken

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with a camera that shows healthy forest in bright red.

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The fire is over 1,600 square kilometres.

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And if you want to see how big that is, take a look at this.

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Look at New York and London. The whole of Manhattan Island and

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Brooklyn and the city would be taken up by an area of that size. If you

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are looking at London, perhaps the entire city is covered in an area of

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entire city is covered in an area of that size.

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With this better news from Fort McMurray I wanted

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to know what prospect there is of its residents

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We got in touch with Evan Dyer from CBC News.

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We are not expecting anyone back in Fort McMurray for a little while,

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although the damage was less than had been feared. The critical

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infrastructure is mostly still there, including the hospital and

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the water treatment plant. There are a lot of issues in town. The fires

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continue to pop up. In fact, we have seen water being poured from where I

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am right now, flares firing up because of timbers, lots of little

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fires continue to pop up. Within the city there is danger from exposed

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electrical wires, from toxic substances that might be lying

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around. So until they can get a better sense of where those are in

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clean them up, they do not want people to come back to Fort

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McMurray. We are told it is a question of weeks, maybe months,

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certainly not days. In the meantime where either resident setting up

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their lives? Are they scattered or either one or two places that they

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can call home for the short term? There are ten big evacuation centres

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spread around Alberta. Often people went to family and friends. Only

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half who have registered as evacuees with the Red Cross. Many have gone

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as far away as their home provinces, thousands of miles away in other

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parts of Canada. Some work at a settlement 250 miles south of here

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and we found a large group of oil workers living in a camp ground.

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People are spreading all over the province and the country and living

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in different kinds of conditions. Some of them are pretty good and

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some are not so good. We saw 300 beds set up in a hockey pitch

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somewhere near here. Facebook has had to come out today

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and deny claims that it suppresses stories which promote

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conservative political opinions. Police in Manchester have issued an

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apology following a terrorism training exercise overnight. There

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was criticism after the fake suicide bomber yelled Ord is great in Arabic

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before detonating an explosive. The Mayor and the crime commission

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called it ill judged, unnecessary and unacceptable. It was

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unacceptable. We are not trying to stop the Muslims, we are trying to

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stop the terrorists from whatever background they come from, most

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people understand that. It is people within the Muslim community who are

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the best defenders, who are the ones who will make sure we have the

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robust response. This sort of stigmatisation is unnecessary and is

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not acceptable. That message has gone out very clearly from Greater

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Manchester Police this morning. We are alive in the BBC newsroom.

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The Nigerian government is saying it is shocked and embarrassed at David

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Cameron's remarks to Queen Elizabeth which described Nigeria is

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fantastically corrupt. Some of the main stories from BBC World Service.

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Some of the main stories from BBC World Service.

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The political situation in Brazil becomes every more confusing.

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Yesterday I told you about the lower house annulling a vote

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on whether to impeach President Roussef.

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Then we heard the Senate, the upper house, would ignore that

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Well today the annulment was revoked - or annulled if you like.

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Which means the vote in the senate goes on without the lower

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If the vote is for impeachment, the President could be suspended

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But I've long given up trying to predict what is going to happen.

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President Obama will visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month.

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It will be the first visit from a serving president

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since the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb

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An Australian mother who gave birth to quintuplets in January has

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released a photo shoot of her babies.

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The chances of conceiving quintuplets naturally

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More of those pictures on the BBC News App.

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Facebook has had to come out today and deny claims that it suppresses

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stories which promote conservative political opinions.

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The original story comes from tech site Gizmodo.

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The claim is that Facebook staff chose to bury articles

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The article tells us, quote, depending on who was on shift,

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things would be blacklisted or trending.

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Popular conservative topics wouldn't be trending because either

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the curator didn't recognize the news topic or it was like

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Ted Cruz was the man who got closest to stopping Donald Trump winning the

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presidential nomination. One person was so worried about this and they

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kept a log. Facebook says in response that

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Gizmodo had "found no evidence that the anonymous

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allegations are true". Dave Lee is live with us from

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Facebook's headquarters. We are talking about the trending stories

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here. What does Facebook tell us about how those trends are

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calculated? Facebook says the trending topic section is a mixture

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of algorithm, of things unnaturally trending because people are talking

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about them on Facebook, but also human curators. That is where the

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controversy lies. Those curators pick and choose some of what goes

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into the trending topics column. The allegation is there was human Bias

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in that process and conservative viewpoints were being overlooked and

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not included, were progressive viewpoints, such as stories about

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democratic issues or perhaps the black lives matter movement surfaced

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when perhaps they were not trending. It is a mixture of two factors and

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that is what is under scrutiny. It is hard to prove there is one way or

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another without being inside Facebook. Well, yes, and that will

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be the next step. There have been calls for Facebook to be more

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transparent about how this trending topics feature works. It is not

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something many people in the political scene want to see as a

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secret any more. In fact the Senate commerce committee, like the media

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Select Committee in the UK, have written a letter asking them to be

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briefed on how that trending topics function works. They want to see a

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log of stories that have been omitted or added by the human

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curators. This will not go away for Facebook. They have responded fairly

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robustly here in California, deny it and saying it was untrue. But that

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will not be enough, people will expect Facebook to be a lot more

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open about how the trending topics works and some of the other areas on

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the site as well. Comeback to us if you get more on that. Disney is set

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to release its results in the next few minutes and all the indications

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are they will be through the roof. Analysts say they expect a 14% rise

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in profits thanks to a catalogue of franchise films like Star Wars.

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Disney has ESPN as well. Samir Hussein is live from New York. I

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guess things do not get much better than this for Disney. You listed a

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few of the blockbusters already, but even some more recently have been

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released like Jungle Book. Star Wars was a big deal for Disney. When you

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look at the cable part of its operations that is the really big

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money maker, despite the fact the blockbusters have a lot of name

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recognition. The cable company really makes a lot of money for

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Disney and there has been a lot of concern with investors with regards

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to how many people are subscribing to how many people are subscribing

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to traditional cable television. We have seen that people have been

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dropping off, or not subscribing to cable at all. That is something

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investors will be looking at in these earnings. Although they will

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be quite stellar when they are released, it should be any moment

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now, there will be a lot of investors looking at what Disney is

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going to do to stem the tide and look at those leaving cable

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altogether. With films and ESPN and TV networks these are global

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operations and they generate money globally. Is cable just a US

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business? It counts for a giant part of how much Disney makes. So it

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still is something of great concern when we are talking about US

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investors for an American company that reports in the United States.

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One other thing, the international aspect of Disney, we see it is

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opening another one of its theme parks. They are opening another one

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in China. That is not even open yet and it is generating a lot of bars.

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People are already flocking to the resort and investors will be looking

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on an update on that. I did not know so much about Disney's

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we have been reporting from North Korea throughout the four-day

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congress by the ruling party. It all ended in a parade. John Sudworth was

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there. Adoration, loyalty, few societies in

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history have built a cult of leadership quite like this. For the

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past four years North Korea has been in the throes of a tricky power

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transition. This week's party congress followed by these

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extraordinary scenes leader, Kim Jong-Un's way of showing that he has

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consolidated his grip on power. This is politics as religious devotion,

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the very definition of mass mobilisation and totalitarianism in

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a fledgling nuclear state. Many outside observers thought he could

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not do it. Barely 30 years old at the time of his father's death, the

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risks loomed large. Factional infighting, crisis, or even

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collapse. All of this is meant to send a message to the outside world.

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Wherever Kim Jong-Un leads, these people will follow. But this is a

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choreographed expression of loyalty from a government that still

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struggles to feed its own people. No one knows what uncertainties may

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still lie beneath the surface. Next, a brilliant report from Nigeria. It

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is about a British actress who has landed her first part in a Nigerian

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film. Claire Eden's success is in part due to the fact that she can

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speak pidgin English. She is a former air hostess now

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gracing the red carpet. A first-time British actress with a starring

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role. Claire Eden has a secret weapon up her sleeve. She speaks

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fluent pidgin English. What does she make of her first role? I am so

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excited, like I could burst right now. I cannot explain how excited I

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am. It means the world to me. How did you get involved? With pidgin

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English I was surprising myself about how much I could pick up from

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watching something. That is where the spark came, realising it was not

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that different to what I am used to. She is starring in a romantic comedy

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filmed by one of their best-known directors. He says he found Claire

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performing on Facebook and her language skills filled him with joy.

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It is a big motivation for us. Most people here do not even feel proud

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to say I speak pidgin English. The fact is we do not follow what we

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have like others. Claire has taken Nigeria to heart. You have to eat

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the local food, that is the thing. Oh, my word. Give me right there.

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What is the best reaction? One lady cried, but it was not sad, it was

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enjoyment. That was very exciting and quite moving for me to

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experience that kind of thing. She was crying out of joy? She was

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laughing and she had tears down her face and she was saying, this is

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amazing, my son needs to marry you. For clear this is a dream come true.

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Many western actors want to break Hollywood, but she has found her

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home right here in Nigeria. The first time you see that, you think

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you would show it to other people, so you can find it online and share

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it on the BBC News app. These are our stories in the second half. This

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will be Eurovision, and this man is favourite to win, the Russian. He

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has got to get the semifinals. We will talk about the difference of

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opinions between Donald Trump and the new Mayor of London.

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This is where we look at some of the weather story is happening right now

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around the world and first of all we are off to the United States. Monday

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brought us an

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