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Britain's bombing campaign against Islamic State in Syria

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starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go ahead.

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Four Tornado jets from the RAF's base in Cyprus took part,

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targeting oil fields in an area controlled by IS.

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This is going to take time. It is complex, it is difficult, what we

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are asking our pilots to do and our thoughts should be with them and

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their families as they commence this important work.

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We'll be reporting from the border with Syria on the likely

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And we'll be assessing the fallout for Labour after 66 of

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Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the murder

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of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after an appeal court overturns his

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A mass shooting at a social services centre

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in California - 14 people die - the attackers are shot dead by police.

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Should scientists be allowed to do research that alters the DNA of

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human embryos? Experts are deeply divided at a conference in

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Washington. And how safe is your hoverboard ?

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officials warn that thousands of them have

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a fault that leads them to explode. Coming up in the sport, more arrests

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at Fifa. Swiss authorities say they have taken two high-ranking

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officials in dawn raids at a hotel in Zurich.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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RAF jets have carried out their first air strikes

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Syria - just hours after MPs voted to approve bombing. Four Tornado

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jets from the RAF's base in Akrotiri in Cyprus took part in the

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operation, targeting oil fields in eastern Syria, which are under IS

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control. The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the strikes were

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designed to deal "a very real blow" to the revenue on which IS depends,

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and he described them as "successful." Let's go now to our

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correspondent Richard Galpin, who sent this.

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Tornadoes ticking off just one hour after the vote was passed in

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parliament, laden with bombs, their mission to cross into Syria and to

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hit one of several lucrative oilfields controlled by Isis

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bulletins. On their return in the early hours of the morning it was

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clear that at least six bombs had been dropped. I can confirm that

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four British Tornadoes were involved in strikes in the eastern oil fields

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of Syria specifically the Omar oilfields attacking wellheads,

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hoping to disrupt the flow of oil and the revenue that the Daesh

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terrorists came from oil. We need to be patient and persistent. This is

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going to take time. It is complete and difficult, what we are asking

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our pilots to do and our thought should be with them and their

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families as they commence this important work. A British don't like

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this one was also used in the attack to gather intelligence. But will

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this bombing campaign lead to Syrian civilians being killed? Schmeichel a

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drone like this. The RAF says no. We have had absolutely no civilian

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casualties reported, the oars of engagement are that our crews both

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apply in the air and our commanders on the ground, mean that I am

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confident that this will continue to be the case with operations in

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Syria. But the risk remains, particularly as the bombing campaign

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carried out by aircraft based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus could last

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several years. And this morning more warplanes took off from RAF

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Lossiemouth in Scotland to join those already in Cyprus. With others

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also flying from RAF Marham in Norfolk the RAF will soon be able to

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carry out regular air strikes both in Syria and Iraq. We can speak too

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rigid in Cyprus. What is the latest? -- we can speak to Richard. We are

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awaiting the assessment of how much damage was done to the oilfields by

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this first strike by the RAF. We're waiting for this information.

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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon seemed to think it had been a

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successful strike. We are at the airbase. Behind me you can see some

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of the aircraft. The next thing to happen here will be that they will

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be a significant number of warplanes arriving at that report, but as I

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say that report, eight new warplanes will come here, Typhoons, and

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Tornadoes. They will bolstered the strikeforce that has already been at

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this base carrying out air strikes over Iraq. It will double the number

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of planes the RAF will have at its disposal to carry out air strikes in

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both countries now. Thank you. So, what's the strategy behind these

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air strikes - and what could they achieve? Our correspondent Christian

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Fraser has been looking at the thinking behind extending the

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British military operation against These so-called Islamic State is no

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respect of international borders. You will see from our map that their

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control still stretches deep into Iraq from Syria. A closer look at

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the map and you can see the areas where the alliance has been focused

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over the last year. It is in a corridor that stretches from IIS

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headquarters in Raqqa past the biggest city in the East of the

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country, incidentally, here is the oilfields that was hit by the RAF

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last might. All the way down to the so-called Sunni triangle, Fallujah,

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areas where the Shia led militias are trying to get a foothold. The

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targets over the last year, principally, they have been fixed

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positions, artillery units, bunkers and oil installations from which IS

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has profited this past year. These sort of installations are now feel

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and far between. The nature of the battles as this military analyst

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from the Royal Institute says, is starting to change. This big obvious

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targets that can be preplanned before a flight, hit this

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specifically, those have been hit. But in terms of forces on the ground

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that we can hit, there is definitely stuff there, is just hard to find.

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So the targets are more dispersed but the RAF is very good at

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surveillance reconnaissance, picking up targets that appear on the

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battlefield as this one did. This is a building that was used by IS

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fighters, spotted by an RAF drone and the bomb dropped was very

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accurate reducing collateral damage. Air strikes alone won't win

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the battle but in areas where bombing has been most concentrated,

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represented by the biggest circles, they have managed to degrade IS

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capabilities. They are not able to mass troops, heavy artillery in

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these places where they are looking to take new ground. To the extent

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that the Kurdish people have been able to take back a large tract of

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land in the north of the country represented by this purple strip.

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You'll also see from the map that compensated and congested, this

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battlefield. Among the 70,000 troops the Prime Minister is talking about,

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the moderate ones, the Kurds, the Free Syrian Army, also smaller ones

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are lined by necessity to more extreme elements that dominate. They

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need to be, in order to survive. So there is a lot of work that will

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have to be done to find a co-ordinated fighting force not to

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mention a political force that can make a difference in Syria.

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Well, as Christian just said, the fight against IS

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on the ground is having an effect, but how much is Britain's

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contribution from the air likely to make?

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Our correspondent Mark Lowen has been to the border between Turkey

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Britain may have joined the air strikes against Islamic State in

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Syria but all sides are aware that the bombings alone will not destroy

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the group. There is also the need for a ground force. That will come

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in the shape of Kurdish fighters and also local troops from the Free

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Syrian Army. GUNFIRE

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The problem is that the FSA fighters are not very cohesive and some are

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more focused on removing President Assad from power than fighting

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Islamic State. That said, they will be crucial and are willing to step

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up to the fight as a Free Syrian Army spokesman told me. The Assad

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regime is the cancer that Isis grew out of. Without erasing Assad from

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power, which means not just focusing on the symptoms, that will not make

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a big difference so we in the Free Syrian Army, we are the West's best

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partners on the ground. Full Syria and maybe the east of Syria, and in

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the south of Syria, we are the only ones who will be able to push Isis

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and from these areas. The strikes will focus on Raqqa, the Guptill of

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the self-declared caliphate. This undercover footage is a rare glimpse

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into a city where military control is all-consuming. The lucky ones

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have left like Hassan Mahmud who left four months ago. TRANSLATION:

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Life is very hard in Raqqa. Humans cannot survive. There is no

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freedom. Cafes are closed. The Internet is not allowed. Hospitals

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and schools have been taken over. Air strikes have not helped. They

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just destroyed buildings. Britain joining the campaign might help

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reduce Daesh fighters but will not destroy them. No one knows how long

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this fight will last, how many sorties British and Allied jets will

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make. When it is over, what comes next? Can the power vacuum in Syria

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be filled and can immediately to come to be united again? The West

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has often been accused of bombing and then leaving with no plan to

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clear up the mess. This time it is hoped that past mistakes will be

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remembered and warnings will be heeded.

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Let's turn now to the political fallout here

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66 Labour MPs voted with the government - against the

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Some of those who voted for air strikes say they've been

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subjected to intimidation and bullying by party activists

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Our Political Correspondent Robin Brant now reports.

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This was a rare sight and a rare sound, applause from all sides was

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how MP3 acted to Hilary Benn's closing speech last might. These two

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man at the top of the Labour Party have opposing views on Syria, as

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they left for work this morning only one of them wanted to talk. I'm off

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to the House of Commons. I just wanted to say this, now the House of

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Commons has made its decision, having heard all the arguments, all

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of our thoughts today with the brave men and women of the Royal Air Force

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and we pray for their safely turn. The Syria vote exposed deep

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divisions in the Shadow Cabinet, Labour's senior figures. There are

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no signs of it going away with comparisons like this. I thought

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Hilary Benn's speech was great, it reminded me of Tony Blair's speech

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taking us into the Iraq war. I am always conscious that the greatest

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oratory can lead to the greatest mistakes. It's not just digs, others

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have gone further, calling for those in their own party who sided with

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the government to be deselected. An MP should not have the right to a

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seat for life which most MPs do when they get elected. If your local

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party does not agree with you they deserve an MP they do agree with.

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Labour MP Stella Creasey was targeted with these insults online

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as well as a protest on her doorstep. Most MPs are used to

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watching their words when they are like places like this on TV. Yet

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nowadays most of the abuse doesn't happen in front of cameras, it

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happens on here. Senior Labour figures are calling for a new code

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of conduct to stop intimidation on the Internet. But is a code of

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conduct enough? This senior Labour figure thinks it's much more

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serious. I gather today that some members have received photographs of

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severed heads. MPs have broad shoulders, of course, but, as Billy

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did to review the security of members's homes and offices? The

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vote is done, the decision made, yet with deep distrust, it will be hard

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to fix. Our assistant political editor

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Norman Smith is in Westminster. Just picking up on what was said at

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the end of that piece, how damaged do you think the Labour Party is?

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Those divisions within the ranks have been put up in neon headlines

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by the simple fact that around 66 Labour MPs and 11 Shadow Cabinet

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members defied Jeremy Corbyn. More than that it was the sight of the

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Shadow Foreign Secretary delivering a barnstorming speech in favour of

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bombing, widely applauded across the House, with his leader sitting

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slumped behind him, staring at the ground, refusing to applaud, that

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really highlighted the tensions now rippling through the Labour Party.

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Tensions which have become more better because of the very personal

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and vengeful way that some people seem to be fighting out these

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disagreements. So we have had these highly abusive tweets sent to some

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supporters of the bombing campaign, and some very unpleasant leaflets

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put through their doors, complaints about mobs gathering outside their

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constituency offices. Jeremy Corbyn's team insist they deplore

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this and have urged everyone to air their differences in a respectable

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way. But some of Mr Corbyn's critics believe he almost licensed such

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behaviour by encouraging party members to try to put pressure on

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MPs. You just sense that Labour are on the cusp of all the infighting

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and division and bloodshed that bedevilled them in the 1980s.

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Norman, thank you. Britain's bombing campaign against

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Islamic State in Syria starts within hours of MPs voting for it to go

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ahead. Four Tornado jets took part targeting oilfields in an area

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controlled by IS. Two Fifa vice presidents are

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arrested in a dawn raid in Zurich on suspicion of accepting millions of

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dollars in bribes. Coming up in the sport, could the football World Cup

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grow from 32 teams to 40 teams? The governing body would debate the idea

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today. If agreed it could happen for the 2026 tournament. The athlete

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Oscar guilty of murder after his original

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conviction was overturned. The judge at the Supreme Court said that

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mistakes had been made in the original trial and that he must have

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known he would kill somebody when he fired shots to the toilet door. He

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could face a minimum of 15 years in prison. In a much anticipated

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judgment by the Appeal Court Justice Eric Leach today overturned the

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culpable homicide conviction of Oscar Pistorius. The methods

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referred back to the trial court to reconsider an appropriate sentence a

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fresh in light of the comments in this judgment. Justice of the

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Steenkamp family has been served. The verdict that Reeva Steenkamp's

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mother June always hoped for. The judgment made by the original judge

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was deemed to be incorrect. Now the Supreme Court of appeal is judged

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unanimously and put to rest the question of how the law should be

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applied. They have now developed the law and for the rest of South Africa

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they have said what should be called judicial precedent. Paige Reeva

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Steenkamp was shot dead to this toilet door. Oscar Pistorius told

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the court he thought he was shooting at an intruder, not at his

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girlfriend but the Supreme Court said he should have seen the

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consequences of his actions when he fired, implying that he should have

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known that he was going to kill someone. For his actions, he spent

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one year in this prison cell in Pretoria. This is where he could

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well written. Oscar Pistorius will remain chair at the Home Office

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uncle on house arrest, now branded a murderer by the Supreme Court of

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appeal, the disgraced athlete will wait until next year to be sentenced

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again and find out if he is heading back to prison. It is not likely

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that the blade runner will be able to appeal the verdict today. He now

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faces a possible 15 year jail term. The Swiss government says two

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officials from football's world governing body, Fifa, have been

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arrested in Zurich as part of It said the two men,

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both Fifa vice presidents were "suspected of accepting bribes

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of millions of dollars". Our Sports Correspondent Richard

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Conway reports from Zurich. Yet another early hotel wake-up call

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for Fifa executives. Acting on behalf of a few as authorities,

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Swiss police arrested two high-ranking Fifa officials. They

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are alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes in

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return for awarding lucrative marketing rights in Latin America.

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The man arrested are Juan Angel Muppet, and another former serving

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Fifa president. These transactions mostly came through the USA, and the

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idea that it is being used as an waystation for fraud will not sit

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well with anyone at the Department of Justice. That is much as anything

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else is driving the investigation. Back in May the arrest of seven

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officials triggered the resignation of Sepp Blatter. Asus has alleged

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inquiry was then launched into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were

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awarded. Hotel staff are getting used to police looking for Fifa

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executives before dawn, it's less than six months since the first wave

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of arrests took place at this 5-star hotel in Zurich. It might not be

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such a surprise. US officials always said there would be further payment

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for world football, further arrests, and they seemed to have been to to

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their word. Senior executive discovered to discuss how to best

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reform the beleaguered world body of football, a discussion of expanding

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the World Cup from 32 teams to 40 teams has also taken place. Yet

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again the focus of the discussions has been blurred by the

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organisation's toxic past. The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove,

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is to scrap the controversial The charge of up to ?1,200

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has been mandatory in criminal cases It has caused widespread concern

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among magistrates triggering a record number of them to resign

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from the bench in protest. Fourteen people have been killed and

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seventeen injured in a mass shooting A man and woman, armed with

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assault rifles and wearing military-style clothing, opened

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fire at a social services centre. They were later shot dead

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in a gunfight with police. The motive

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for the attacks is not yet known. President Obama said the

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United States has a pattern of mass shootings that has no parallel

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anywhere else in the world. David Willis reports from

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San Bernadino. What caused an apparently mild

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mannered man to shoot up his office Christmas party?

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Terrified staff were ushered to safety after a colleague left the

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gathering following a disagreement and returned with his wife, both

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brandishing semiautomatic handguns and assault rifles. There was a

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shooter in her building. They went into a room and locked the door. I

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told her, turn of the lights. I have not tried to call her because I

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didn't want the phone ringing. For several hours the couple were

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at large, before police spotted A fierce gun battle ensued,

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in which two suspects, They were identified as Syed Farook

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and Tashfeen Malik. He had worked for the local health department for

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many years and was described as quiet and polite. His brother-in-law

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was said he was stunned to hear of his relative's involvement in the

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attack. Par I have no idea, why would he do that, why would he do

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something like this? I have no idea. I am in shock myself. This was

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the worst mass shooting in America since Sandy Hook three years ago and

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President Obama has repeated his call for tougher gun control laws

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here. We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has

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no parallel anywhere else in the world. There are steps that we could

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take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve

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the odds that they don't happen as frequently. This massacre was

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clearly planned, less clear is what prompted it.

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to rule out the possibility of terrorism acts to Mac say they are

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keeping an open mind. David Willetts, BBC News, San Bernardino,

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California. Should scientists be allowed to do

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research which alters the DNA It's a question being discussed

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by hundreds of scientists from 20 countries in Washington -

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at a conference on gene editing. The technology makes it possible to

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change the genes parents pass It might help prevent inherited

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diseases - but it also gives rise to From Washington, our Medical

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Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. Genetics, what can it mean? Genetic

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manipulation was once purely the territory of science fiction as in

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the film Gattica. But earlier this year in a world first scientists in

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China edited the DNA of human embryos in a laboratory. They used a

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new cut and paste Jean Duluth technique which might one day allow

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inherited disease to be killed. The prospect of genetically engineered

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children being born will make many feel uneasy but some at this summit

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in Washington feel that it should be allowed. We should trust our

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instincts but we must also trust them, we were initially concerned

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about in vitro fertilisation and as soon as it get through safety and

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efficacy testing it can progress to clinical trials in a measured

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manner. For others a step too far. It's too risky, we don't need it,

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there are other ways to have healthy children and it would open the door

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possibly to a world of genetic heart is and have - not but. Many

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scientists at this summit wanted to do gene editing in embryos to

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increase understanding of human biology. Talk of designer human

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beings is, they say, a distraction, something many years away. But all

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agree that now is the time to debate the ethics. Fergus Walsh, BBC News,

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Washington. Alan Yentob is to resign

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as the BBC's creative director He said the controversy over

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his role as Chairman of the collapsed charity Kids Company

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had become a "serious distraction." Alan Yentob has faced scrutiny over

:25:28.:25:30.

his role at the charity which went bankrupt in August, and

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was accused of trying to influence He will continue to make

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and present TV programmes. Our media correspondent

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David Sillito is here. David, why has he gone and why now?

:25:40.:25:51.

The rumours, the revelations, the ultimate collapse of Kids Company,

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he was the chair of it, who was leading many of the investigations,

:25:56.:26:00.

the BBC. He had strong views and expressed them to Newsnight and also

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appeared in the studios of Radio 4 during an interview about the

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coverage. An investigation was made, saying that he had not influenced

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the BBC in any way it covered the story but those questions continued.

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Even at the beginning of this week the chairman of the BBC said that

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investigations, questions, were still ongoing. He said that as this

:26:24.:26:28.

had gone on for such a long time it was proving a serious distraction

:26:29.:26:31.

given that there was so much scrutiny of the BBC at the moment.

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In a Batman garage today spoke in his defence and said he was a

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creative person who had done a lot for the arts -- Camila

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Batmanghelidgh. He will of course remain as presenter of Imagine.

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Thank you. Voters are going to the polls

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in the first by-election Labour are defending a majority

:26:51.:26:52.

of more than 14,000 in Oldham West The by-election was caused by the

:26:53.:26:56.

death of the former Labour minister It's tipped to be one

:26:57.:26:59.

of this year's most popular Christmas presents - but anyone

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wanting to buy a hoverboard or self-balancing scooter has been

:27:05.:27:09.

warned they could be a fire hazard. Thousands of hoverboards have

:27:10.:27:12.

been imported to the UK in recent But trading standards

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officers said 15,000 that The boards have faults

:27:15.:27:21.

which can cause them to explode or Our Personal Finance Correspondent

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Simon Gompertz reports. Hoverboards a trophy gift high on

:27:26.:27:38.

Christmas lists but beware cut-price unbranded versions. This is the

:27:39.:27:43.

danger, that some have caught fire while charging, causing serious

:27:44.:27:47.

damage. And started giving of really weird fumes. I thought I shouldn't

:27:48.:27:51.

go near it. This family from London had a lucky escape. They had emptied

:27:52.:27:58.

all their savings to pay for it and the terrifying fact is that it could

:27:59.:28:03.

have burned the house down. Trading standards are trying to intercept

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them, breaking into a container full of them at Felixstowe port last

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might. In this batch from China 1000 defective hoverboards and 10,000

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more on the way from this supplier alone. The worry is that the worst

:28:17.:28:21.

problems could only emerge at Christmas itself. There will be many

:28:22.:28:26.

people who bought directly via the Internet. Those presents might be

:28:27.:28:54.

hidden at the back of the wardrobe or under the bed ready to go under

:28:55.:28:57.

the tree. There are so many out there that we don't know the

:28:58.:28:59.

potential scale. We have a plaque that is not correctly shaped and is

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dangerous, the wrong views in it, and charger which doesn't work

:29:03.:29:04.

properly, a manual which is for a different product and inside the

:29:05.:29:06.

hoverboard a lithium battery for which the cut of mechanism that

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stops and charging when it is full does danger of and this is where the

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danger of fire comes with the price at over ?500 it is clear why

:29:13.:29:14.

families seeing cheaper versions online might take risks. Trading

:29:15.:29:16.

standards service do not leave them charging and attended, and

:29:17.:29:17.

definitely not at night with the price that over ?500

:29:18.:29:20.

it is clear why families seeing cheaper versions online might take

:29:21.:29:22.

risks. Trading standards service do not leave them charging and

:29:23.:29:28.

attended, and definitely not at time to look at the one unifying theme is

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cloud some heavy rain in the Lake District witha rather dull day, some

:29:36.:29:37.

heavy rain in the Lake District with strong winds here, snow in Scotland,

:29:38.:29:43.

a cold story, this is the top of the Ben Nevis range. It looks as of the

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cold theme will continue for the afternoon across Scotland, this were

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the front is a dividing line between the cold air to the north and the

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milder air to the south. Incredibly mild for the early half of December

:29:57.:30:01.

temperatures are already sitting at around 14 Celsius in places, early

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getting up to five or six as a maximum in the far north of

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Scotland. That'll have a consequence this afternoon as the weather front

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drifts further north we could see some snow over the Southern

:30:14.:30:16.

uplands, maybe some slushy deposits in the lower levels, turning back to

:30:17.:30:20.

rain, some rain heavy down the borders, north-west England and

:30:21.:30:24.

North Wales. The winds strengthening as the rain pushes in. Central and

:30:25.:30:30.

eastern areas a little brighter this afternoon, incredibly mild for this

:30:31.:30:35.

time of year. Through this evening the wet and windy weather pushes

:30:36.:30:39.

quickly south and east. The wind changing more around two or westerly

:30:40.:30:46.

overnight. Still breezy, frost and fog and issue, some isolated showers

:30:47.:30:49.

in the north, wintry on higher ground. Tomorrow will be quieter,

:30:50.:30:54.

rather breezy still yet hopefully more sunshine in England and Wales.

:30:55.:31:02.

Severe gales developing in the North West of Scotland as we see heavy

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rain although they will have a milder afternoon with two bridges

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reaching ten or 12 degrees. Some very wet and windy weather through

:31:11.:31:13.

Friday night and into Saturday across the extreme north of the

:31:14.:31:18.

country, a miserable start to the weekend, I'm afraid, severe girls,

:31:19.:31:22.

assistant rain likely to attract severe gales, North West Wales,

:31:23.:31:28.

windy elsewhere, yet try and still mild. Bad weather front moves south

:31:29.:31:33.

and east, weakening somewhat and stagnating across England and Wales,

:31:34.:31:37.

hopefully something brighter as we move into the far north. The weekend

:31:38.:31:43.

summary is a wet and windy start for the far north, windy and brighter in

:31:44.:31:47.

the South on Saturday, all change on Sunday with lighter rain in the

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South and hopefully something try and brighter in the North. Something

:31:51.:31:52.

to look forward to! Britain's bombing campaign

:31:53.:31:59.

against Islamic State in Syria starts within hours

:32:00.:32:01.

of MPs voting for it to go ahead.

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