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further militarisation of the conflict in Syria as the White House

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says it will now arm the rebels. It comes after President Obama

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concludes the Assad regime has crossed a red line by using chemical

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weapons. Surgeons are warned they will be

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named and shamed if they refuse to publish performance data.

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A mother appeals for her missing daughter to come home - 14-year-old

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Lorna Vickerage disappeared with a 35-year-old man on Monday.

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Millions of Iranians go to the polls to choose a successor to Mahmoud

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Ahmadinejad. Cleared for take-off - the new

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Airbus completes its maiden flight with thousands of British jobs

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counting on its success. And Britain's Luke Donald leads the

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field before rain halts play at the US Open. On BBC London: Testing to

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see how the underground could cope with a poisonous gas attack. The

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Fathers For Justice campaigner accused of defacing a portrait of

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news at One. The United Nations has issued a warning against sending

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more arms to the combatants in the civil war in Syria. US weaponry

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could soon be making its way to rebel forces after President Obama

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finally acknowledged that his red line had been crossed and that

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chemical weapons had been used by the Assad regime. But the White

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House would not be drawn on what form the military help will take.

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Here, the Foreign Secretary said the crisis demands a strong, determined

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and co-ordinated response from the international community. Our world

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affairs correspondent nick Childs reports.

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Grim images of suffering following April alleged chemical weapons

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attack by Syrian Government forces. Damascus has always denied it's used

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such weapons but now the dramatic new conclusion from the White House

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that it has done so. After much debate, that's the White House says,

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has now shifted President Obama's view on how to help the Syrian

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rebels in the opposition's supreme military council, the SMC.

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President has made a decision about providing more support to the

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opposition. That will involve providing direct support to the SMC.

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That includes military support, but again suffice to say this is going

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to be different in both Scope and scale in terms of what we are

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providing to the SMC than what we have provided before. The shifting

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battle lines on the ground are also behind Washington's decision. What's

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alarmed the West lately is that Syrian Government forces seem to

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have the rebels on the back foot, thanks in part to critical help from

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Iran and the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah. What more support might

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Washington now provide? Air strikes directly against chemical weapons

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sites have been mooted in the past but could be an escalation and

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risky. A no-fly zone would be complicated and risky but it's

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thought some in the administration are pressing for at least a more

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limited version. Arming and training the rebels looks

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most likely. But not with their full shopping list of weapons. The

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President's critics say this option is too little, too late.

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President better understand that just supplying weapons is not going

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to change the equation on the ground of the balance of power. These

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people, the Free Syrian Army, need weapons and heavy weapons to

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countertanks and aircraft, a no-fly zone and Assad's air assets have to

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be taken out and neutralised. President Obama clearly remains wary

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of deeper intervention. He will get a call later today from David

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Cameron. Syria will be a key and difficult issue at next week's

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Geight summit in world -- G 8 summit in world. From Russia there's

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scepticism over Washington's claims. And in a conflict which the United

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Nations says has now cost at least 93,000 lives on both sides, with

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diplomacy also apparently faltering, the options don't get any easier.

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Our correspondent joins me now from Washington. You are recently back

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from Syria. How uneven has the battle become? I think it's fair to

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say that the momentum lies with the Government. The battle in Qusair, an

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important town, for some it's a strategic town, was key in showing

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which direction the battle was going in. We know that forces that belong

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to the Shi'ite movement in Lebanon, Hezbollah, joined Syrian Government

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forces and that seemed to have made a quantitative and qualityive

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difference on the ground. They now say they've moved towards Aleppo,

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Syria's largest city in the north and they feel they have momentum on

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their side. There has been a sense in Washington that Iran and

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Hezbollah have essentially gone all-in in supporting the Syrian

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Government and that the support for the opposition has been fair fairly

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piecemeal and they're on the back foot and if you want to do anything

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about it time is running out. get the impression that President

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Obama seems a reluctant participant in this? Yes, it has been a very

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long, difficult process. Last year the CIA, the Pentagon and state

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department bosses were saying they believed the rebels should be

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supported in terms of arms by the US Government but it was President

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Obama who blocked that. Yes, they've got to the statement now where they

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feel they should step up the support but we need to be clear, nobody has

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said explicitly what will be supplied when and we will have to

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wait and see what difference it will make. Thank you. You can find out

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much more about the crisis in Syria on the BBC news website.

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Surgeons who refuse to publish data about the results of their

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operations, including mortality rates, should be publicly named,

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according to the Health Secretary. League tables for ten medical

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specialities are due to be published in England next month as Ministers

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aim to make the NHS more transparent. Our health

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correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.

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Publishing the results of individual surgeons is meant to raise standards

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and give patients more information before an operation. But it can be

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complicated. Those carrying out difficult procedures on the very

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sick may have different results to some of their colleagues. At this

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hospital in south Manchester they're already making some results public

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but they acknowledge the process is not without its problems. I think

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that it's not easy to get the measurements right and that's one of

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the challenges. That's what we are doing now. It is about us focussing

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as doctors on the importance of this so it's not an easy thing to do,

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it's not been done before but we think now is the time. The results

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of individual surgeons have been made public since 2008 and the

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feeling is that has led to an improvement in standards. But the

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Royal College of Surgeons points out it took time for that system to work

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properly for the data to be accurate. And they say that accuracy

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is vital if the public are to have confidence in the system. Data

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protection law means surgeons must give their consent before

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publication on the NHS choices website. The Royal College of

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Surgeons says some of -- some have delayed until they know that data is

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robust. The Health Secretary is prepared to name surgeon who is

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scheme could offer more choice but that too is not without

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complications. You take precautions and if somebody came up and it was

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showing bad then obviously you would be considering, I am not going in

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there. Depends how ill you are and what's wrong really. Whether you

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have the time to look into it and not everybody's capable of looking

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into those things. The Royal College of Surgeons says it's important as

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many of their members as possible give their consent for the

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publication of their results. But it warns that complicated data needs

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careful handling if it's to be reliable.

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The Treasury has announced that six more Government departments have

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agreed their spending plans. The Government's full spending review is

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due out later this month. Let's speak to our correspondent at

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Westminster. We seem to be getting a running commentary on this. They're

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looking for 11. .5 billion worth of savings. The big names who have

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settled now, the Home Office, and as part of that police and

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counterterror capabilities are being protected, we are told. The

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department of environment, very much seen as one of those departments

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that was holding out on all of this. It means is they're about a third of

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the way towards the target of 11. .5 billion and across the departments

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that have settled already it's cut savings, however you want to

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describe them of about 8%. Government is emphasising those who

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have settled but there's still a big job to get all those other

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departments that haven't? That's right. It was interesting here is

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they're making these progress announcements as they call them,

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what they're trying to do is put pressure on some of the others and

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there are big ones still to come, defence, we have been hearing about

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that, about concerns about more cuts there. And the business department.

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What's going on here is these ministers are signed up to cutting

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the deficit but when it comes to their own backyard they're not

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always so keen. There are clearly some very tough negotiations going

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on behind the scenes. Danny Alexander saying they're careful and

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serious minded discussions but he's also playing hard ball, too. He said

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look at defence, there are more horses than tanks, surely there are

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room for efficiency savings here. The deputy governor of the Bank of

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England, Paul Tucker, is to step down this year. He has been with the

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bank 33 years but lost out in the race to take over as governor. Mark

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Carney will take over in the top job on July 1st.

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Iranians are going to the polls today to vote for a new President to

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replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who leaves this month. All six

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candidates are seen as conservative, although one cleric has been

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reaching out to reformists in recent days. 50 million voters are able to

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cast their ballot. Polls close at 6.00pm local time. We should know

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the result in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Our world affairs

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correspondent Richard Galpin reports. Voting so far has been

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brisk. The turnout in the hours immediately after polling stations

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opened this morning looking quite high 50 million people are eligible

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to cast their ballots, including many who have never voted before.

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Iran has a young population. It is the first time me and my friend are

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eligible to vote. We have been looking forward to coming and seeing

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the elections and having a say in managing our country. Amongst the

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early voters was Iran's supreme lead leader, the most powerful man in the

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country. He's called on everyone to turn out. Critics in Iran and abroad

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have accused him of trying to fix this election to ensure one of his

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loyal supporters wins. Of this he was dismissive.

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TRANSLATION: Recently I heard someone from America's National

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Security Council has said that we don't consider Iran's elections to

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be valid. OK, the hell with you then. If the Iranian nation waited

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to see what you Americans accept and what you don't, it would be a loser.

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But of the hundreds of candidates who had wanted to run in this

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election, almost all were disqualified by a vetting body

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packed with supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini. Amongst the front-runners

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Rowhani is considered more moderate. In the last few days opposition

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groups have rallied around Mr Rowhani, making him the only

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candidate representing those who want fundamental change in Iran. He

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has an advantage, because the candidates of the ultra conservative

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establishment, five in total, are all battling each other as well as

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MrRowhani to become the next President.

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The question for the international community is whether the new

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President will compromise on Iran's nuclear programme. The current

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leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has pushed ahead with the programme,

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ignoring international sanctions. Those sanctions are a crucial issue

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for voters today. Because they've caused a severe economic crisis

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affecting the entire population. You will find more information about the

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candidates in the election on the BBC news channel and on the website.

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Airlines around the world have been warned not to allow the man who

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leaked information about secret US surveillance programmes to travel to

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Britain. Airlines based in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand say they've

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received what's nope as a carrier alert about Edward Snowden. Our home

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affairs correspondent June Kelly is here. Issued by whom? The Home

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Office, although the Home Office isn't commenting on this but we

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understand this alert is genuine. Now, a photograph of this document

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has emerged. This photograph was reportedly taken at April airport in

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Thailand. What the document is telling airlines is they shouldn't

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allow Edward Snowden to board a flight to the UK because he's highly

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likely to be refused entry if he arrives in this country. Also, any

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airline that does bring him in could face a fine. The document does also

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have a picture of Edward Snowden on it and his personal details.

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suppose this begs the question, do we have any indication he is

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planning to come to the UK? None at all and the UK would be a strange

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choice of destination for him given our - the fact we are a close ally

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of the United States. Now, Edward Snowden has spoken about possibly

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trying to seek sanctuary in - there has been a suggestion would he try

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to get to Iceland, changing planes in London? This is all subposition

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at the moment. No warrant has been issued for his arrest by the

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Americans and at the moment we believe he is still in Hong Kong

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which is where he gave his interview although he hasn't been seen in

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public for a number of days. Thank The United States is to supply

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direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time.

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And a glimpse into the secret life of sea mammals. Just how do they

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stay punned water for so long? May may look pretty out of the

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water, but these seals are beautifully adapted for life under

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the water. This new research shows how they

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move so efficiently and ce gracefully while holding their

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Later, fewer people across the country are playing sports spins the

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2012 Olympics, but London bucks the trend.

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And performing jazz with Jools Holland, the unknown singer from

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Brixton who won her place in the Next week for the first time since

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the fall of the Taliban 12 years ago, Afghan government forces will

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take the lead in combat operations across the whole country. It will

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mark a significant milestone on the road to the eventual withdrawal of

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NATO forces at the end of next year. But as Afghan troops start to do the

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bulk of the fighting, they are paying a heavy price as David Loyn

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reports from a military hospital in Afghan soldiers are leading the

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fight and bearing the cost. The wounded fill hospitals after being

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injured by roadside bombs, rockets, and gunfire. This man was fighting

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in Kandahar and lost both legs when he stepped on a mine. He is engaged

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to be married. TRANSLATION: My fiancee is proud of

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me for losing my limbs for our country and our people. Thank God I

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am still alive. This man had ten operations to save

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his leg after he was shot by the Taliban in Helmand.

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He told me that 30 of his Afghan comrades and two British soldiers

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were killed in the firefight. Last year around 3,000 Afghan soldiers

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and police were killed. Ten times as many as foreign forces and this

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year, the proportion is higher. Thousands more are being injured, a

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casualty rate that is unsustainable for this new force.

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The operating theatres in a hospital built during the Russian war 30

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years ago are busy all the time. In one week recently, over 100 Afghan

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soldiers were killed. Injuries are running at a far higher total than

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that. TRANSLATION: Most of our patients

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are injured by roadside bombs. The enemy hasn't got the capability to

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fight face-to-face with our security forces.

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A sad, steady stream of coffins are carried away by the families of the

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dead. Some he leave covered in the Afghan flag in honour. But others

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leave anonymously draped only in funeral black. These are returning

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to Taliban controlled districts where kwon connection with the

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military to be fatal for the families of the fallen. And the dead

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leave behind young lives, altered forever. In Afghanistan's war

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heels of John Bush who disappeared with Lorna Vickerage on Monday. Ed

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Thomas is outside Doncaster Police Station for us. Ed. Yes, Jon, Lorna

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Vickerage is 14 and has been missing for five days now. Every police

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force in the country has her picture and the picture of the man she is

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believed to be with. That's 35-year-old John Bush. He is wanted

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on suspicion of child abduction and today, Lorna's mother and

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grandmother came here to the police station to appeal directly to him to

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release the 14-year-old. I would just like to appeal to John

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to fetch Lorna home, please. Being a family man yourself, you see how

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much hurting you're causing the family. Please fetch her home. We

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are here for you and you are not in any trouble. We love you and we just

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want you to. Come home, please. Police say John Bush is not a friend

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of the family. Lorna's mother and grandmother say they have never

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heard of him and concern is growing. John Bush is a convicted fraudster.

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Police say he is well used to lying and they believe he is doing the

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same to the girl. A 35-year-old man has been arrested, police confirmed

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this is not John Bush, but he is being questioned on suss suspicion

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of child abduction as well and police said that John Bush that his

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time is running out and he should hand himself in soon and release

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Lorna Vickerage. Thank.

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-- thanks. The newest plane from the European

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plane-maker, Airbus, has made its first flight. The A350 is designed

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to meet the challenge posed by Boeing's revolutionary new fuel

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efficient plane, the Dreamliner. The wings of the new aircraft were

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designed and built in Britain, and it is powered by Rolls Royce

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engines. Dave Harvey watched the flight from the Filton Airbus

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Centre. Dave over to you. It has been a day of celebration

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here, Jon. 1,000 engineers swapped their wing design computers for

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cake! A big screen. They are showing live pictures of the aircraft safely

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back on the ground after four hours on its first test flight. You see

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the same thing as this in North Wales where they manufacturer the

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wings in Derby where Rolls-Royce make the engines and in Gloucester,

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its it is a very British plane. Today all eyes were on some tarmac

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in Toulouse in Southern France. Planes take off all the time, but

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rarely like this. The flight crew look like they are going into space.

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In Bristol, slight anxiety as the wing designers watch and then...

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APPLAUSE Ten years work comes together in

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this. A lot of work, arduous hours, but, you know, it is worthwhile when

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you see something like this today take place and yeah, fantastic.

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A lot of people put a lot of time, energy into this aircraft. So to see

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it fly is something special. The engineers are excited for

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thousands of them across the UK, it is a big day. But to passengers, it

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looks well, just like a plane. Only this one is not made of metal. It is

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made out of this flimsy looking tape. Huge, precision machines lay

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thousands of strands of carbon-fibre, gradually building a

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30 foot spine of the aircraft's wing. Then they cook it. This oven

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hardens the carbon-fibre under high pressure. It will emerge stronger

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than steel and much, much lighter. In North Wales, the wing takes shape

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in this huge purpose built factory, just like the other parts, the skin

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of the carbon-fibre is built here too. You need a plane big enough to

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swallow a wing. Inch by inch, the huge wing is loaded on board.

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We spent five years developing them with the best technology in the

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world. We tested them in structural testing and totally confident they

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work, but they look really good in the air.

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Nonetheless, the days ahead are full of risk. Boeing launched the

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Dreamliner just as smoothly, but when batteries started smouldering,

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the whole fleet was grounded. Airbus too have had similar problems with

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their own planes, the superjumbo, the A 380.

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It had some issues in service. This in terms of the business case, in is

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-- this is the better programme to make Airbus money. If it is

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successful, it will make the company a fortune. It is a golden goose that

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will lay lots of big cash eggs. For the 1,000 wing designers in

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Filton, they hope he is right. They have sold 600 aircraft already.

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Each one at over 250 million dollars. Perhaps you can see Jon

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where the company is happy to give these guys the morning off and some

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cake! Dave Harvey, thank you very much

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indeed at Filton. Golf and in a rain affected first

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round of the US Open in Philadelphia, the Englishman Luke

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Donald holds a one stroke lead over the American left-hander, Phil

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Mickelson. Joe Wilson watched the action.

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There was a tornado watch in Philadelphia, it turned out to be a

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thunderstorm, but enough to disrupt play in the US Open. Over throw

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hours lost on the first day. Phil Mickelson got through 18 holes,

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three under par after flying in at 3. 30am. He had been watching his

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daughter's graduation speech at school. Sometimes the longest

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journeys are the most worthwhile. That takes care of it.

:25:37.:25:47.
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The Merion Golf Club course is 100 years old. The poles are topped by

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wicker baskets. Lee Westwood found himself heading backwards. Tiger

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Woods has more than his score to worry about. Pain in his wrist

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visible as he struggled to two over par. He said he was fine. He didn't

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look it. Add midst this, Luke Donald calmly

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putted his way to the top of the leaderboard before play was

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suspended. Forecasts for Friday, mainly cloudy. They are drying out

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and resuming before breakfast on the East Coast the East Coast of

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America. Already time to make up. The mystery of how marine mammals

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are able to hold their breath for up to an hour has been solved.

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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that whales and

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seals have a special protein in their muscles which allows them to

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store huge amounts of oxygen. Victoria Gill has the story.

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Adam can hold his breath for six minutes. He is a free diver and he

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trains in this North London swimming pool.

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After three minutes, the air for oxygen will come really strong and

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your mind will be telling you breathe now, come up now.

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But even a free diver can't compete with these animals. Like us, these

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seals are air breathing mammals. But they can dive for up to 30 minutes

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on a single breath. Now, a study led by scientists from the University of

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Liverpool has shown just how they manage this.

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They may look pretty ungainly out of the water, but these common seals

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are beautifully adaplted for life under the water and this new

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research shows how they move efficiently and gracefully while

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holding their breath. The researchers studied a protein. It is

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the oxygen storing stuff in all mammals muscles including our own.

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But in marine mammals it has a special structure. Like most

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proteins, it is sticky. So very large quantities of it would clog up

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our muscles. But in aquatic mammals it evolved nonstick properties. It

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is this nonstick that evolved to allow seals to use their oxygen

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packed muscles. We are taking a a high amount of it

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into their muscle. They can afford larger concentrations in their

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muscles than humans. This allows them to stay under the water and

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hunt for long times. Showing how oxygen can be stored efficiently

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could help scientists develop life-saving carrying liquids or

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artificial blood. The scientists have solved a mystery of how some of

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the world's charismatic creatures achieve charismatic feats.

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Time for a look at the weather. Time for a look at the weather.

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Here's Nick Miller. Last weekend, where the sun shown 25 Celsius with

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high pressure. This weekend, it is low pressure across the UK. So the

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weather is very different. Not just one area of low pressure, it brought

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a friend, another comes in for Sunday and this is a troublemaker

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when it comes to Sunday's forecast as I will show you in a moment. But

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don't get me wrong, not a wash out of a weekend, because it will be

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showery. There will be sunshine too, but it is breezy along with that.

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And so far today, we have been dodging the downpours. Wales

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initially heavy showers this morning. This is the rainfall

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picture and those heavy showers with thunder too are working through the

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mid- lands and into Northern England as we speak and a few pop up in

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Scotland. In Northern Scotland, you see some of the best weather of the

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day. Yes, the odd heavy shower popping up in Scotland and a

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scattering of heavy and possibly thundery downpours. But through much

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of south-east England, just the odd shower, but sunshine developing this

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afternoon. For much of the South Coast will stay dry and not too bad

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if you contend with the wind. Increasing cloud in the far

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south-west later and for Wales, after this morning's heavy

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downpours, sunshine and further showers to come this afternoon. We

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have got some heavy showers in Northern Ireland. Look, there is

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worse to come this evening. More persistent and heavier rain coming

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in in time for the evening rush hour. This will work through the

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night through to Scotland. It is wet for the southern up lands and

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Grampians. More showers following behind. Temperatures aren't going

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down too far. And that takes us on to the weekend. From the word go, it

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is sunshine and showers. A more prolonged spell of rain setting

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itself up across Scotland. Into the afternoon, another batch of showers.

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Maybe some prolonged spells of rain working through parts of England and

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Wales. Windy with these and could see gales developing around the

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south-west and Wales and temperatures mid to high teens. I am

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not helping am I? As for Sunday, the further north and east you are, you

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may escape with a dry and bright day. But that troublemaker I showed

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you earlier is trying to bring rain into the south and south-west, but

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there is uncertainty about how far north it will get. Don't make this

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the last forecast you see between now and Sunday. Keep checking. It

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may change. With we will update you online and mobile. Don't cancel or

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