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Hello and welcome to outside source. A number of hours ago it was

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confirmed that King Bhumibol of Thailand had died. Mourners had

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gathered and there has been nationwide outpouring of grief.

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Donald Trump has been responding strongly to more accusations against

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him. It was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me.

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These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are

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totally and absolutely false. We have a number of stories to tell

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you, all relating to Brexit. One is that the Scottish Government is

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laying the groundwork for a second independence referendum. As he may

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well have seen, everyone is talking about Bob Dylan. He has been awarded

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the Nobel Prize for literature, the first time a songwriter has won the

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award. As usual, we will be here throughout the hour live in the BBC

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newsroom. You can get in touch in all the normal ways.

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Thailand's King Bhumibol has died aged 88. This is how Thai television

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made the announcement. As you'd imagine, there has been an

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outpouring of grief across the country. Crowds gathered in

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particular outside a hospital where the king was being treated in

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Bangkok. As you can see from these pictures, hundreds of people have

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been turning out, some holding pictures of the King, others wearing

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pink, which signifies good health, or yellow, the royal colour. After

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several hours of rumour, just after 7pm, the news was made official.

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They will be a year-long mourning period in Thailand and for the next

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30 days flags across the country will fly at half-mast. King Bhumibol

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has been the world's longest reigning monarch and Jonathan head

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looks back at his 70 year reign. King Bhumibol reigned for so long

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that he was the pre-eminent soul in his country yet he remained an

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enigma. A cultured, outwardly modern monarch with few legal powers but

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with the status of the semidivine feudal ruler. Throughout his reign,

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he enjoyed lavage -- lavish public rain yet a true assessment of his

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popularity was never possible because of laws about talking about

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the public -- about the royal family. He ascended to the throne

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after the shooting of his brother. The young King sat about restoring

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the prestige of the monarchy by travelling across the country.

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Thailand was then a poor but fast-growing nation. King Bhumibol

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presented himself as a caring money, interested -- a caring monarch,

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interested in people. He became an indispensable figure of national

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unity, using his revered status to reach out to remote areas during the

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communist insurgency of the Cold War. He gained a reputation as a

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mediator during periods of our people. In 1992, he famously

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chastised a military leader and a protest leader. It was after that

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that Thailand enjoyed its longest period of democratic rule. However,

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the buyers of this man, Thaksin Shinawatra, a tycoon turned

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politician proved to be a changing part -- a changing point. He was too

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much for the Conservative establishment around the King and

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King Bhumibol himself was clearly uncomfortable with him. He was

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ousted in a military coup in 2006. Like previous coups, it was quickly

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endorsed by the palace. Pro-tax in Shinawatra governments that were

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elected after the coup were also forced from office, angering the

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supporters and tarnishing the monarchy's once untouchable

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reputation. In later life, King Bhumibol became more distant, often

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hospitalised with illnesses. He was still revered and his legacy is a

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highly personalised monarchy. It will struggle to redefine itself now

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that he has gone. That was Jonathan reporting from

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Bangkok and it is worth telling you that our reporters are restricted in

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what they can save. This is because of Thailand's laws. It is a criminal

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offence in Thailand to defame, insult or threaten the King, the

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Queen, the heir apparent or the Regent. This can also apply to

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beaches who are dead or two royal project. Let's be clear, the

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definition of defame it incredibly strict. People can face up to 15

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years in prison. This is an Australian national who was

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sentenced to three years in prison for releasing a self published novel

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which featured a fictional crown prince and he was lucky to be part

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in -- pardoned. A Thai national was imprisoned for 20 years for sending

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text messages that were thought of as critical of the monarchy and he

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died in prison the next year. I'm sure we knew this but this is not

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necessarily related to the laws I have mentioned, more that a lot of

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disruption has caused to broadcasting in Thailand because of

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the mourning period I have mentioned. If you want to hear more

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about that, you can find out online on BBC News all about the reign of

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King Bhumibol. The BBC News app will help you with that as well. Now, we

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will be doing this every day an outside source for the next few

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weeks on the US elections. This was the cover of Time magazine and when

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it came out and had the words meltdown, it gained a lot of

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attention. They have just released this is a follow-up with the words,

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total meltdown. Needless to say, Donald Trump will deny that is fair

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and would doubtless say this is the mainstream media being dishonest and

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totally biased as the often claims. But what is beyond dispute is that

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the hailstorm of negative stories about Donald Trump continues. The

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polls to are not looking good. This is a prediction model from the New

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York Times. It gives Hillary Clinton and 89% chance of winning the

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presidency. Given this is a two horse race, that is as close as you

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are going to get to certain without one person dropping out. If you look

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at the BBC's latest poll of polls, the Hillary Clinton campaign has

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opened up a 9-point gap. This does not account for the second TV debate

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which was a vicious affair. We don't know how that will feed into

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people's opinions but you can see the gap is considerable. There have

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been more allegations against Mr Trump of inappropriate sexual

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conduct in the last 24 hours. Two women told the New York Times he

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groped or kissed them. This is one of those women. It wasn't until they

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cleared the meal that, somehow or another, the armrest in the seat

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disappeared and it was a real shock when all the sudden, his hands were

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all over me. He started encroaching MySpace. And I hesitate to use this

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expression, but I'm going to, and that if he was like an octopus. It's

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like he had six arms. He was all over the place. But if he had stuck

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with the upper part of the body, I might not have gotten... I might not

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have gotten that upset but it was when he started putting his hand up

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my skirt, that was it. That was it. I was out of there. Mr Trump refutes

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that allegation but it's not the only one. A reporter for people

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magazine has published this article in it, the reporter claims he kissed

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her -- forcibly kissed her during an interview, a claim he denies. These

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vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are

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totally and absolutely false. And the Clintons know it and they know

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it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They are pure fiction

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and they are outright lies. These events never, ever happened and the

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people that set them meekly fully understand. We already have

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substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made

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public in an appropriate way and that an appropriate time very soon.

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Mr Trump also said he will sue the New York Times over those

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allegations. In the last few hours, a letter has been released from the

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New York Times lawyers to Mr Trump's lawyers. It is quite a long letter

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and I have just tweeted it out. Many of you are re-tweeting it and

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reading it. A couple of the key phrases:

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well, as always, we have plenty to discuss. I just want to put all of

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these different stories to one side and concentrate on the core fact

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here which is that Donald Trump is in real difficulty in terms of

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getting to the White House. Yes, you are right and there has actually

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been one poll that has come out since that second debate and that

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was the poll in Wisconsin showing that he is losing ground there,

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particularly in support amongst women. The combination of that video

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tape from Access Hollywood where he talks about wanting to grab women

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and that second debate performance, they seem to have, at least from

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this Wisconsin poll, to be having a chance -- an impact on his chance of

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winning an important battle ground state. All of the pollsters and

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their modelling suggest Mr Trump's paths for getting to the White

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House, to the magic number of electoral college votes, are getting

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narrower and narrower. What he is trying to say is this is all to do

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with the crooked media, to do with the Clinton campaign, it is all

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corruption and effectively he is taking on the world. He is saying to

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his supporters, it is you, me, our movement against everybody and if we

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don't win, it will be because the system is rigged. Not because we

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didn't run a good campaign, because I was not a good candidate or

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because of all these allegations. One of the people he is taking on is

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Michelle Obama. I've not seen this but she has been talking, is that

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right? She has been talking and she gave a powerful speech just before

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he spoke in Florida in which she said that this had shaken her to the

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core and that she hadn't been so running to speak about this abuse

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issues but it would be disingenuous not to. Michelle Obama is named --

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is an extraordinarily effective surrogates for Hillary Clinton. She

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is a weapon that the Hillary Clinton campaign is using sparingly but with

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devastating effect. She is very popular. Her poll approval ratings

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are high and when she sent out like this, she has an impact. For her to

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be speaking in this genuine, heartfelt way about how she felt

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about these allegations of sexual abuse and what she felt it said

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about Donald Trump's character is the kind of thing that will help the

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Clinton campaign get its message out. Isn't it extraordinary when we

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have Hillary Clinton trying to be the first female president of

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America and she must be getting ten, 15, 20% of coverage at the moment?

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Donald Trump must be eating everything in terms of how the media

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is reporting this? It looks like we will spend the last three weeks of

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this campaign talking about sexual abuse when we are on verge of having

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first e-mail evident. We are talking about sex, sexual issues,

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misconduct, what Donald Trump may or may not have done, what Bill Clinton

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may or may not have done and I think this will dominate the end of this

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campaign. It has become a gutter campaign. It is phenomenally

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depressing in many ways that this is what the bait to elect a potentially

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the most powerful free world is coming down to issues of groping and

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sexual abuse and this kind of behaviour. I'll leave it there. We

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will speak again next week. Thank you for coming on, as always. In a

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few minutes time, we will speak about a hurricane, not hurricane

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Matthew but the next one to be considered. Hurricane Nicole is

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affecting the people of Bermuda and we will bring you up to be -- up to

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date. Now, a male gorilla has been

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recaptured after escaping from its enclosure at London zoo. Police were

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called to the do this evening, and the western lowland silverback

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gorilla had escaped into the secure keepers area. No one was hurt and he

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is back in his down after being shot with a tranquillising dart. It was a

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safe, secure keepers area so at no part -- no point did he get out into

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the zoo. I would like to thank our staff, keepers and vets who

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responded so quickly and also the support of the emergency services

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who are available at any London attraction to deal with incidents.

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This was a minor incident and after all of this coming he is back in his

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down and interacting happily with his family. The keepers are so

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professional, so caring, so they are going to stay on this evening, check

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how he is doing and I have also been told they will be giving him some of

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his favourite treats later on. We are live in the BBC newsroom. The

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people of Thailand are mourning king Bhumibol who has passed away at the

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age of 88. Let's bring you some of the main stories from BBC World

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Service. First of all, BBC Arabic is reporting that the US military has

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attacked three radar sites in Yemen after a missile was fired at a US

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warship in international waters. The Pentagon says the target sites were

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controlled by rebels. Reports that Germany's court has

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rejected a trade deal with Canada. The deal that we spoke about last

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night will remove many trade barriers. Campaigners object to the

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fact that parts of the deal will be implemented before all national

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parliaments in the EU have voted on it.

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The United Nations General Assembly has approved Antonio could cherish

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to be the next UN Secretary General. He will serve a five-year term and

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it is fair to say he has received a warm welcome. The Prime Minister of

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Canada offers his congratulations. There is also a tweet from Ukraine's

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evident. That has also been congratulations

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on Ban Ki-Moon, the man in the job at the moment. The BBC's cheap

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international correspondent Lisa did that has been speaking with Antonio

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Guterres just in the last few hours. Here they are talking. Well, the

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pressure, not yet, the responsibility, of course. We live

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unfortunately in a world where you see impugning the and

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unpredictability everywhere. Conflicts seem never to die and the

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international community has shown very little capacity not only to

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prevent conflict and to solve them but even to get a minimum of

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humanitarian assistance to people involved in conflict situations. So

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we are facing a very difficult moment.

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Chelsea football club has announced a huge deal. Let's start off

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business by talking about it. Here you can see them tweeting that it

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has a new technical partnership with Nike. Effectively it means they will

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be making the Chelsea kit among other things. It starts next season

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and the media reports the value of this is about 60 million pounds a

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year. That is more than $70 million a year. Perhaps more significantly

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this deal is going to run for 15 years, the biggest commercial deal

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in the club's history. I also want to play you a report

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about virtual reality. Here is the report.

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Lost in a virtual world. This is what Sony thinks is the future of

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virtual gaming. It's hoping many people will splash out for these

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headsets. The technology have come a long way since VR threaten to be the

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biggest craze in the 1990s and failed when people felt sick. I am

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trying out a game which involves being lowered into the cage deep in

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the ocean where dangers lurk. I've got to confess, that was pretty

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scary but the question is, how many people will be willing to put my

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headset for this and other virtual reality experiences. The competition

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includes oculus rift, owned by Facebook, and then there is the HTC

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vibe. Both offer even more experiences than Sony but at a

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higher price. The technology is being aimed at first act keening

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gamers but there is the hoped-for expansion. Obviously gaming is close

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to our hearts but you can talk about other applications as well, like

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health, education and people minds come alive when try virtual reality.

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It is certainly a compelling experience the first time you try

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it. Now we will find out whether living in virtual reality will

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appeal to a mass audience. As I was mentioning a few minutes

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ago, I want to update you on another dangerous hurricane in the

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Caribbean. We spoke over the last few weeks about the devastating

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hurricane Matthew has caused. The latest storm is hurricane Nicole and

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it is Bermuda that is being hit. A little bit earlier, I went behind

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this green well you will find our colleagues from BBC weather and I

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spoke to Darren bet who compared hurricane Matthew with hurricane

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Nicole. Not quite as powerful as hurricane Matthew. A category the --

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a category three hurricane with sustained winds of 200 plummet as

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per hour. I've just heard there are about 225,000 homes without power on

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the media. This is an enhanced satellite picture. This is Bermuda.

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Follow the grey dot in the middle, if you like. That is the eye of the

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hurricane. It got very, very close. It is now moving away and the winds

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and rain will start to ease. Hurricane is our common in the

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Caribbean but are they common in Bermuda? On average, you would

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expect to find six or seven storms that would hit Bermuda. They are

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usually weaker than this one. We are uncertain as to whether the very

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centre of the eye swept across Bermuda but the last time a category

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three hurricane made a direct hit in Bermuda was 1926, 90 years ago.

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Lots of you will already have been talking about this story. Bob Dylan

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has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The first musician to

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receive the literature award, and we will speak about that in a minute.

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We should also mention this. 11 people have won Nobel prizes in the

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last few days. You will notice they all share one thing in common. They

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are all men. In fact, 900 Nobel prizes awarded in the Novell 's

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history, 49 have gone to women, so no prizes for gender equality to

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those choosing the winners. Of course, that doesn't take away from

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the achievements of the individual awarded prizes. In terms of Bob

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Dylan, he has won this for having created new poetic expressions

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within the great American tradition. Lots of people from the world of

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literature have been commenting on this as well. Salman Rushdie says:

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I think most people agree with that. I think it came as a surprise to

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most of us as well. He has been talked about for the last few years

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as possibly somebody who stood an outside chance of getting the award

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but it did seem to be a genuine shock to people when that

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announcement was made. You could hear all the journalists in the room

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as his name was read out actually gasping, in admiration, and even

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though it is a shock to many people, there are very few people out there

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that don't think it's a very well-deserved reward. Are his words

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judged as words on a page or words to be sung? I think you can look at

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it whichever way you like. When you look at his lyrics, they have the

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density of poetry, however you define a poem. It has the extra

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dimensional of it being music, but if you go back to people like Homer,

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their words have been put to music as well. Perhaps there is an area in

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the middle that whether something is set to music or not, if you look at

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it as a piece of work, look at the words and the emotional impact they

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have, if you think it is a poem, it is a poem. I guess this is immense

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him as a voice of a generation we associate with the 60s.

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He was the voice of the civil rights movement and this is very much

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another award to reflect that. Does this signal a change in direction

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for the Academy? That question was actually put to them today and the

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secretary said, the Times, they are changing. We will have to see how

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this goes over the next few years. This could be admiration because of

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his exceptional talent but maybe there are opening up to other areas.

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In a few minutes time, we will be talking about Nick Kyrgios to played

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several points in the Shanghai Masters and wasn't trying. Now he

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will have to hand over some cash. We will speak about that in a few

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minutes. See you then. Thanks for tuning in. Let's have a

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look at the international weather now and the big story of today has

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been hurricane Nicole battering Bermuda. The IRB

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