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The Queen has outlined the Government's final programme of

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before the next election, including plans to allow voters powers to sack

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MPs, and the biggest shakeup in a generation to pensions.

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These reforms will also allow for innovation in the Private pensions

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market to give greater control to employees. The Labour has dismissed

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the coalition as a zombie government that has run out of ideas.

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We'll have the latest from Westminster.

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There's infighting between Tory heavyweights Theresa May and

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Michael Gove, on who should be tackling alledged

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Police searching for the missing Briton Gareth Huntley

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The Taliban have released video of the handover of a captured US

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soldier following a prisoner swap for five of their fighters.

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They were pictures that shocked the world and helped change a nation.

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We'll look back at the day 25 years ago

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when thousands of troops opened fire on protestors in Tiananmen Square.

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And we'll look at the crucial role played in the D-Day

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One man is dead and 13 injured in a crash between a car and bus and

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Clapton. And the coroner at the Mark Duggan inquest raises concerns about

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the case. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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One O'Clock News. The Queen has set out

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the legislation the government hopes to pass before

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the general election next May. The speech in the House of Lords

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contained 11 new bills on deregulation targets,

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shale gas exploration and pensions. Ministers said

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the programme showed the coalition's continuing "boldness",

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but Labour's leader, Ed Miliband, said it failed to match the scale

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of the problems faced by Britain. Our political correspondent

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Carole Walker reports. Her madgesties set out for the

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ceremony of the State opening of Parliament in a brand-new carriage,

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but critics say her speech showed a tired looking coalition near the end

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of its life, lacking the energy to tackle big challenges. It is a

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ceremony which in tradition with the door to the Commons slammed in the

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face, symbolising the independence of MPs. They are then summoned to

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the presence of the monarch. This is the last opportunity for this

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coalition to show what it can do. At the heart of the speech was a

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shake-up of pensions. Legislation will be brought forward to bring

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those who have saved discretion over the use of their retirement funds.

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My government's pension reforms will also allow innovation in the Private

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pensions market to give greater control to employees. There were

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several contentious measures for Parliament to consider. My

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government will continue its programme of political reform. My

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ministers will introduce legislation on the recall of members of

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Parliament. Everyone agrees that is a good idea, but there are

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disagreements on how it should work. What else was announced? A new

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childcare subsidy for working parents with up to ?2000 a year for

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each child. A Modern Slavery Bill with tougher sentences for those

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convicted of slavery and human trafficking. And a 5p charge for

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using a plastic bag in England. The speech promised work to promote

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reform in the European Union but no commitment to enshrine in law David

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Cameron's promise of a referendum by 2017, something may Tory MPs and

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ministers want. The reason we could not have it in the Queen's Speech is

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we do not have coalition agreement on it. That is why as a party we'd

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been doing everything we can to try to get that referendum commitment

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through. No one is hiding the coalition division on this. We have

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already legislated as a coalition government to hold a referendum if

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there were any transfer of powers to the European Union. I think what the

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argument is about is how we can achieve reform, what is the most

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effective way of doing that? Is it by sniping from the sidelines, or is

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it by getting stuck in. Labour says the coming programme has the wrong

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priorities. We want to reform our banks, build homes again in Britain,

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freeze energy bills, meet the big challenges our country faces. With

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the pomp and ceremony over, political arguments are already

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underway. The measures outlined today will set the agenda for the

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coming months to some extent, but all parties will be saving some real

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red meat for the manifestoes for their general election in less than

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one year's time. Plans for dramatic changes to

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pensions took centre stage The government has abolished

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the requirement for pensioners to buy an annuity, and wants workers

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to contribute to "collective pension" funds which they will share

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with thousands of other members. Our business correspondent

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Simon Jack explains. As expected, the speech introduced

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plans to introduce a new type of pension scheme already popular

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in some European countries. At the moment,

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employees and employers have interpersonal one member schemes,

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if you like, known as defined contribution schemes, each with its

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own administration costs that nibble Under this new plan,

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employees would pay into one big scheme where those costs would be

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shared, and some estimate that all those small cost savings could add

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up over time to 30% more income in retirement, although that income

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could fluctuate. Obviously in times of crisis,

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it does mean pensions sometimes need to go down, they've gone down 2%

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on average in Holland, for example, But in general, they can keep

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steady and rise with inflation. And of course they give

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a better pay out if we are all doing However, another recent proposal to

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allow people to take all the money out when they retire and do what

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they want to it means this new communal pot could shrink suddenly

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as people leave, taking their money with them, which will make it very

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hard to manage. For this to work, lots of companies have to club

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together to do it, but many companies have signed up just signed

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up to the government's last big pensions idea, automatic enrolment,

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so may be reluctant to try another Norman Smith is at Westminster for

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us. Is this a bold legislative agenda or the rattling of a zombie

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government? Well, there was an absolute priority for the government

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to quash the idea they had become a zombie government. Why? Because in

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the real world people are still struggling to pay their way, it is

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hard to get onto the housing ladder, they do not want to see a government

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that is sleepwalking in the land of the living dead. So ministers are

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stressing they are brimming with energy and ideas and flagging up key

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bits of legislation such as the pension changes we just heard

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about. Measures to make it easier for companies to drill under land,

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changes to childcare, and also free school meals. But it seems to me if

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it is not a zombie Parliament, we are in the last orders Parliament.

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By that, I mean we are in the last year, there is less than 12 months

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to go till the election. Only around 100 legislative days to get any

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measure through. There simply isn't the space for a big legislative

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programme. Secondly, we learn from what isn't in the speech about the

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difficulties the coalition base about agreement on many measures. So

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nothing about Europe, nothing on immigration. Labour have been

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critical, what did they suggest should have been in the speech? They

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would a bad measures to freeze energy prices, to build houses,

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houses, immigration, the NHS. I would just point to the fact that

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the last year of the last Labour government, their speech actually

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was the shortest ever and only contained nine bills, whereas

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today's is 11. Today is much about ritual and tradition, and it seems

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to me one ritual and solution of the British parliamentary system is that

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when you get to the last year of the government, any government,

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attention inevitably begins to shift from the process of governing to the

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business of fighting an election. Norman Smith, thank you.

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Two of the most senior members of the cabinet - the Home Secretary,

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Theresa May, and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove - have

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Mr Gove believes Mrs May's department ignores extremism, and

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Mrs May responded by accusing him of failing to deal with

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the alleged Islamic plot to take over state schools in Birmingham.

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Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth is at Westminster.

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Just explain the background. Well, this all centres on that

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alleged plot by hardline Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham.

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Those have not been proven but it has not stopped what seems to be a

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row about how the government has handled this. Michael Gove thinks

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the government is too soft on extremism. He is said to have

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clashed with the Home Secretary Theresa May at a recent meeting of a

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special task force set up to tackle extremism. His people are playing

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that down, but there clearly is some friction because the Home Secretary

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has written to the Department for Education raising serious questions

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about school governance. Sources within the Home Office have told us

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they think Mr Gove is trying to make this someone else's problem. This

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morning, Number Ten tried to dampen down this erupting row and we've had

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a joint statement from two reason may and Michael Gove is saying,

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look, we are working together to try to tackle this very serious problem.

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But these are two very senior government figures from the same

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party, and their political opponents have jumped on this, calling it an

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unedifying row. Next week, we are expecting reports into the allegedly

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and the schools in Birmingham. Everyone involved will want to make

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sure attention is focused on what they need to do, if anything, to

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deal with that problem, and away from this infighting.

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Police searching for the missing British man Gareth Huntley

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34-year-old Mr Huntley has not been seen since he started a trek to

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a waterfall on Tioman Island just over a week ago.

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According to local reports, the body, which has not been

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identified, was found in a pond close to the turtle conservation

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The search to find Gareth Huntley involved more than 100 looking

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through to rain covered in dense jungle. Friends and family had

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initially raised concerns not enough was being done to find him, but

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eventually the search included dogs, boats and a helicopter. Yesterday,

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the search area was narrowed. Today, police said a body had been found.

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There has not been confirmation it is that of Gareth Huntley. He'd been

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travelling in Asia but six months and had come to the island as a

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conservation volunteer. He was working at this turtle project, and

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it was there he told friends he planned to track to admit -- a

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nearby waterfall. He never returned. Local media outlets say the body was

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found close to the conservation project. His mother travelled to the

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island at the start of the week. The Foreign Office says it is providing

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support to the family. Malaysian authorities say a forensic team is

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travelling to the island to carry out further investigations.

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The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of a US soldier

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controversially exchanged for five detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

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The footage shows Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghan

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clothing, as he's freed and taken to a waiting helicopter.

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The prisoner swap has been criticised by Republicans in the US,

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who say releasing Taliban fighters could put American lives at risk.

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Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan has more.

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The handover, choreographed and filmed by the Taliban somewhere in

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Sergeant Bergdahl arrives, blinking after five years of captivity.

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He is guarded by heavily armed members of the Haqqani network,

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a Pakistan-based group closely allied to the Taliban.

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Two of the fighters lead the soldier toward his countrymen.

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This is thought to be the first time Americans have met

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The commentator said the insurgents wanted to have a conversation,

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The Americans were taking no chances.

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The Sergeant's release has provoked a political storm back home.

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Republicans say the exchange with five leading

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insurgents from Guantanamo will put American lives at risk.

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President Obama has strongly defended the deal.

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The US Army says the soldier could still face charges

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after members of his platoon accused him of being a deserter.

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The video ends with a warning - if he comes back to Afghanistan,

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Has outlined the final programme of government measures before the

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election including the biggest shake-up in a generation to pensions

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-- the Queen has outlined. The garden cities of the future,

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how the lives of thousands We are at Heathrow's brand-new

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second terminal where the first flight landed this morning and get a

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glimpse of this years summer exhibition at the Royal Academy.

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Thousands of security personnel are on the

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streets of Beijing, to prevent any commemoration of the crushing of the

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student-led protests in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago today.

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Estimates of the number of people who died range

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from hundreds to thousands, after troops cleared the square following

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weeks of protests for political reform and democracy in 1989.

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People have been marking the anniversary in Hong Kong and Taiwan,

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and there've been demonstrations outside some Chinese embassies.

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But in recent weeks the authorities have detained dozens of activists

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in Beijing to ensure their silence, from where Celia Hatton now reports.

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Tiananmen Square was thick with armed police today. The past week,

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automatic weapons and paramilitary vehicles have become a common sight

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on the streets of Beijing. The government is desperate to stop

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history repeating itself. 25 years ago, China's Communist leaders were

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caught off-guard by the unwavering demands of student protest is

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camping in Tiananmen Square. Using bullets and tanks, soldiers finally

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regained control of the area. Hundreds were thought to have died.

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On this sensitive anniversary, nothing is left to chance. A recent

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police training grill -- drill was billed as an anti-terrorism

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exercise. These fake protest is looked a lot like the students from

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decades ago. -- protesters. Even away from the square there is a

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heightened security presence. The 4th of June is not mentioned in the

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newspapers and is not on TV. It has effectively been raised from the

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public consciousness. Even those with clear memories of 1989 have

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mixed feeling about the legacy. This man serve 15 years in prison after

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setting fire to a military tank. I was angry because ordinary people

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were getting killed. At first, the soldiers used rubber bullets, but

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then they switched to real ones. He would never participate in another

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protest. He suffered too much. But he is optimistic others will take

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his place. There are still people who will take to the streets to

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fight for change. Not everybody cares only about money.

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Now a major tourist attraction, it is unlikely Tiananmen Square would

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host any future protest as constant security virtually guarantees it.

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For those who remember the bloody events of June, 1989, this place is

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now a symbol of the lengths that the Chinese Communist Party will go to

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to stay in power. Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket

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chain, has seen a fall in sales of 3.7% in the first quarter

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of the financial year. It's the third successive period

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of disappointing results with the company facing increasing

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competition from discount The Tesco Chief Executive Philip

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Clarke says trading would remain challenging

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"throughout the coming quarters". Here's our Business

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correspondent Emma Simpson. Tesco, the biggest UK grocer by a

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mile, but few of us are doing this. Sales are slowing, and today the

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picture got worse, despite a ?1 billion plan to revitalise the

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business. These are the worst sales numbers that Tesco has seen for the

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last complete year, and it's clear the turnaround plan is not working

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yet and we have the hopes that it will turn everything ran because it

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is not dealing the idea of being everything to everyone. It is the

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turnaround plan that is causing some of the pain. Price cuts have led to

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less money going through the tills, and it's also had to revamp shops,

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which has disrupted sales. Tesco has more of these huge stores than

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anyone else but here is the big problem, they are not doing as much

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business as they used to. Will these make overs do the trick? Tesco think

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so, and persuading shoppers back into the aisles is vital, but the

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competition has never been tougher, and Tesco are caught in the middle

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and continued to be squeezed. All the big supermarkets are finding it

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difficult to grow. Partly because discounters are stealing customers.

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So too are Waitrose at the premium end. Tesco are caught in between.

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Share is now back to where it was a decade ago, and there is no quick

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fix -- their market share. It's like turning a supertanker around and it

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will take time to reverse the fortunes. International convenience,

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online, digital, lots of decent initiatives and good decisions being

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made, but sadly the Tesco, the bulk of the business is supermarkets in

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the UK which is proving a tougher nut to crack -- but sadly for Tesco.

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The question is, how long will it take? Tesco warned it could be

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months before there is improvement in its sales. It may still make

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billions in profit, but this once invincible juggernaut is now under

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pressure. The crisis in Ukraine is dominating

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a day of diplomacy in Europe. President Obama met

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the new Ukrainian president in Poland this morning, and paid

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tribute to what he called Ukraine's Later today,

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the G7 summit gets underway in Brussels, with leaders from the

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world's most advanced economies. But for the first time

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since 1997 Russia has been excluded because of its annexation

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of Crimea from Ukraine. Our Europe Correspondent Matthew

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Price joins us from Brussels. Is there a sense that the G-7, as it

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is now, is united on how to best deal with Russia after the recent

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events in Ukraine? I think there is, apply. Think back a couple of months

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ago, all the talk was about sanctions -- I think there is,

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actually. They said they would deliver against Russia because of

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the actions in Ukraine. There are still the possibility of more

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sanctions but they won't talk about those today. They certainly won't be

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increasing the sanctions. What they believe they have at the moment is a

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window of opportunity with Russia and they believe that the stance

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from Moscow is perhaps not positive, but less negative at the moment.

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Some signs they have pulled back some troops from the Russian border

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with Ukraine, and there is not a Russian condemnation of the recent

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presidential election process in Ukraine itself. I think what we will

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see this evening, when they focus on foreign policy matters, therefore

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specifically on Ukraine, Syria will be in the mix, but Ukraine is the

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big one at the moment. They are going to be looking at how they

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might persuade Vladimir Putin to go about publicly accepting the new

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president of Ukraine, reaching out to the president. As you have said,

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President Putin is not coming here because Russia was expelled from the

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G8 which is why this summit was hastily arranged, but tomorrow David

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Cameron and Francoise Hollande are expected to meet Vladimir Putin in

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Russia, and presumably they will take some pretty strong messages

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from this summit with them about what they believe President Putin

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has to do next in order to start rehabilitating himself in their

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eyes. Thank you, Matthew. British police investigating

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the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have resumed their search

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in the resort in Portugal, where Police have brought

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in ground penetrating radar to the site of scrubland

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in Praia da Luz on the Algarve. Officers have been granted

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permission to check two other sites, one even closer to

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the apartment where the McCann The police have been told they will

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be able to continue searching beyond Friday, which was earlier set

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as the deadline. The coroner into the inquest of the

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shooting of Mark Duggan has published a series of concerns about

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the case. He criticised the way the shooting was investigated. He also

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said that officers had created a perception of collusion by writing

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complete statements in a room together three days later.

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They revolutionised the way thousands of people lived

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when they were first built 100 years ago, but the Garden City is moving

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Five finalists have been chosen in a competition to design a

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'visionary and economically viable' new Garden City in a bid to solve

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Ideas range from a 48,000 home scheme on the North Kent coast, to

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an 'arc' of Garden Cities stretching from Oxford to Felixstowe.

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Could this be the site of a new garden city? This peninsular in Kent

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is one of the areas on a short list. It's a competition to find a plan

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that is inspiring, economically viable and. Shelter, the housing

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charity, is behind the scheme -- viable and popular. There would be

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shared ownership, cites the self builds, a harbour with places for

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houseboats -- a site for self builds. The idea is to transform

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this rather muddy and neglected part of the country into a completely new

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town. 36,000 people could live in 15,000 new houses. The scale will be

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similar to the classic Garden cities of the past like Letchworth and

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Welwyn, but how do we define a garden city in the 21st century? And

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is it even possible to renew the concept? The garden city is a

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combination of creating great places through jobs, housing and also

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really important community benefits, places where you can have something

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to do and enjoy. Of course, there is a huge difference between having a

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great idea for a garden city and actually getting one established.

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Here on the Medway estuary or anywhere else. One of the big

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questions is whether enough local enthusiasm can be generated to

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overcome all of the likely obstacles. Because garden cities

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sound pleasant enough, until real development plans start being

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considered by local people in real locations. Obviously we don't know

:25:55.:26:00.

any detail at the present moment. We would be happy with the fact it is

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being built on Brownfield land as opposed to green land, but we're not

:26:06.:26:09.

sure of the area being talked about. But we would have concern

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over things like flooding here on the Medway because the sea level

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rises. As well as the planning Kent, there are four other finalists

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in contention with a winner announced in September -- this plan

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in Kent. The government is also running a separate programme to

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identify ideas and with long delays likely between any plans being

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approved and new garden cities actually being built.

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This week, we're commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day,

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the biggest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen when allied

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forces landed on the coast of France on the 6th of June 1944. Crucial

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to the success of the mission was the airborne

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assault, and this was spearheaded by the C-47 Dakota plane. 900

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of the aircraft dropped thousands of allied paratroopers

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Their job was to protect the men on the beaches from German

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Well, to remember their contribution, eight surviving

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Dakotas took to the skies today, as Duncan Kennedy reports.

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It was the plane that helped make D-Day possible. The Dakota once

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again flying over southern England. A plane that became the airborne

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workhorse of operation overlord. Some of them I had known since the

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brigade had formed. 94-year-old Maurice Bell parachuted out of many

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Dakotas and recalls a fine but unforgiving aircraft, especially

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during its unpressurised dives. I have seen strong, brave men

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screaming in pain. That was the only problem we had with the Dakota. It

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served us so well. I could worship it. I think it saved our lives. Each

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plane carries special invasion markings. On D-Day, the plane told

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across from bases from southern England. Americans, British and

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Canadians all flew in behind German lines before dropping of thousands

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of paratroopers. In many ways, the Dakota was the perfect aircraft in

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the job. The right size, the right speed and reliable -- for the job.

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And arguably, without it, D-Day might have gone very differently.

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Today's event is one of the biggest peacetime gatherings of the Dakota.

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11,000 were made in World War II, becoming an aircraft that D-Day

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built their entire plans around. Eisenhower said one of four things

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that have won the war, the atom bomb, the bazooka, and it was

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greatly loved by those who fluid. Many wartime nations had iconic

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aircraft, but the Dakota has a few aeronautical peers. From transport

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to troop carrier, it was a monumental plane for its time.

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A bit unsettled with an area of low pressure that was forecast a few

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days ago. Skies like this, led, grey skies with outbreaks of rain across

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the whole country and some of the rain will be quite heavy,

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particularly through the Midlands. Here is the culprit, the air of --

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area of low pressure which has moved up from the south and is slowly

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pushing northwards and eastwards. The rain moves up from the south and

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gradually pivots around, so many areas could see a lot of rain as the

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day wears on, particularly south Wales, through the Midlands and into

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southern and eastern Scotland. This is the picture through the

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afternoon. Heavy bursts mixed in, but drier interludes. It won't be

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persistent rain everywhere. In Scotland, a lot of low cloud and sea

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Falk and heavy rainfall eastern Scotland -- sea fog. Dry in Northern

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Ireland with one or two showers around. Towards much of northern

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England, Ireland with one or two showers

:30:10.:30:11.

around. Towards the Midlands, south Wales, a case of rain on and off and

:30:12.:30:16.

some heavy bursts mixed in. Some dry interludes and we might see some

:30:17.:30:20.

sunny spells around which might push temperatures to 14 or 15 but it will

:30:21.:30:25.

feel chilly elsewhere. It is windy here, particularly for Cornwall,

:30:26.:30:28.

Devon and through the English Channel. If we run the sequence to

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this evening and overnight, we the rain pivoting round and becoming

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confined towards the north and east of the new K -- we can see the rain.

:30:37.:30:40.

There is some clear spells coming and one or two chilly spells but

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with cloud and rain it will be milder. Going into Thursday, rather

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cloudy, outbreaks of rain continuing across Scotland and northern and

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eastern England and slowly the rain will be confined in the North with

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brighter skies moving in across England and Wales. And improving

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picture. One or two showers, but warm in the sunshine, maybe 21

:31:03.:31:08.

Celsius. As we head towards the end of the week we import some warm and

:31:09.:31:12.

humid air from the continent. Some areas seeing sunshine but it could

:31:13.:31:15.

also spark off summer thunderstorms. For Friday, much of

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the country, central, southern and eastern parts seen the best of the

:31:22.:31:25.

dry weather. Feeling warm and muddy with temperatures in the 20s. Into

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the weekend, it looks like it will stay fairly humid, quite warm in the

:31:34.:31:37.

sunshine, but an increasing chance of showers or thunderstorms,

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particularly on Saturday as the shower risks diminishes on Sunday.

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Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:

:31:46.:31:51.

The Queen has set out the coalition's final legislative plans

:31:52.:31:57.

before the general election. It includes a big pension shake-up.

:31:58.:31:59.

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