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Immigration levels in the UK are not too high, says the Labour leader

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Jeremy Corbyn. But he says stopping the exploitation of workers would

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probably bring down the levels of migration. I want to deal with the

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worst aspects of exploitation first. Deal with that, that is a crucial

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one, which also would improve working conditions for people in

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this country as well. Mr Corbyn has also called for a cap on how much

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people can earn, saying it would lead to a fairer society. Struggling

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into work, hundreds of thousands of commuters across southern England

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are hit by the latest three-day strike by Southern Rail drivers. A

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15-year-old girl has been arrested after a seven-year-old girl was

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found with life-threatening injuries in York and has died. Festive cheer

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for Morrisons, as they record their best Christmas sales figures for

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seven years. Getting bigger, the World Cup will expand to 48 teams in

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less than a decade, as 16 more teams are allowed in. In sport, Johanna

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Konta's preparations for the Australian open go from strength to

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strength. She is through to the quarterfinals of the Sydney

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International. Good afternoon. The Labour leader

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Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC he doesn't believe that immigration in

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the UK is too high. In a major speech, he is expected to suggest

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that Labour is no longer wedded to the principle of freedom of

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movement. When asked if he had changed his mind about the numbers

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coming to the UK this morning, he said no. He also addressed the issue

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of pay, saying he wanted to put a cap on the maximum amount people can

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earn in the UK, to create a more equal society. Our political

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correspondent reports. He has criticised the Prime Minister for

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not having a plan for Brexit but he has been under pressure to set out

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his stall. Today, he reached out for Labour voters worried about EU

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immigration by saying his party wasn't wedded to freedom of

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movement. In a BBC interview he didn't suggest any new restrictions,

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so how would he'd tackle the level of unskilled immigration? Ending

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exploitation of migrant workers, ending on cutting existing pay

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conditions, and enforcing the workers directive, which describes

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the way people are recruited to come to this country to undercut existing

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working conditions. With this cut the number of EU migrants? It

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probably means there would be fewer. Some in his own party said he should

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be flagging up more specific policies. We have to be clear and

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consistent about what our policy on immigration is. That's why it

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Stephen Kinnock and I'd put forward what was a well thought through

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proposal about retaining preference for EU workers over non-EU workers

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in order to get the best economic deal, but equally, there would be

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restrictions and quotas in low skilled areas of work. The

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Conservatives are accusing Jeremy Corbyn of swiftly changing his

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position on EU immigration. On the one hand it was trailed overnight in

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the newspapers that the Labour Party were committed to ending freedom of

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movement rules. By the time they hit the TV studios that had gone out the

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window. Those close to Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted to catch the

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antiestablishment mood sweeping through many Western companies. Not

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exactly a left-wing Donald Trump but someone for those political weather.

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He created a bit of a storm over his plans for those on high pay, too. I

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would like to see a maximum earnings limit because I think that would be

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a fairer thing to do. We can't set ourselves up as being a grossly

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unequal, bargain basement economy, on the shores of Europe. We have to

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be something that is more eager to her in. We don't think pay caps are

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the way to run a modern economy. We don't think politicians know what

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the correct level of pay is for the chief executive of a FTSE 100

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company which has hundreds of thousands of employees across the

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world. Jeremy Corbyn won't be that bothered that his high-paid cap is

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unpopular with business. His bigger challenge is to find policies that

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appeal to Labour supporters who voted to remain in the EU, as well

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as addressing the concerns of those who want to leave.

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Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

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His interview today is being billed as a relaunch, how has it gone down

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so far? With a good deal of head scratching, and confusion. Today was

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meant to be the day when Mr Corbyn rebooted his leadership with a more

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confident, popular, assertive leader, ready to take on the

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Westminster village. Even his closest Shadow Cabinet colleagues

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were taken by surprise by this idea of a pay cut. An absolute limit on

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the top salaries some people could earn. Similarly, his attempt to

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strike a more popular stance on Brexit, saying Brexit could be good

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for Britain and that Labour was no longer wedded to freedom of

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movement, confusion there, too. Because in interviews this morning,

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Mr Corbyn said, actually, I haven't changed my mind on immigration

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freedom of movement. Yes, there might be tighter labour market rules

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to stop EU workers undercutting British workers, but he shied away

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from any changes to freedom of movement. Just figured measure, he

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said he supported striking railway workers and would be happy to seen

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on the picket lines at Southern Rail. Mr Corbyn's people are quite

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relaxed. This is the new, unvarnished, confident Jeremy Corbyn

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telling it as it is. They think he can ride the popular,

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antiestablishment bandwagons we've seen in the Brexit referendum, and

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over the Atlantic in the United States election. The fear of his

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critics in the Labour Party, is that yes, he's getting the headlines all

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right, but these are not the headlines a Labour leader should

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want. Hundreds of thousands of commuters

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in the south of England have struggled to get to work today

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because of the latest strike The dispute - which has been

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going on for nearly 10 months - is about taking away guards

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and having driver only trains. Our transport correspondent

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Richard Westcott is at East Croydon station -

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how much of a service How much of a service has there been

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today, Richard? It has been quite limited. It's a bit calmer. You can

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see behind me. In rush hour this was a huge, snaking queue going hundreds

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of meters down the side of the station. No Southern services today

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so people were cramming on the services there were. This has been

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rumbling on now for ten months and it's not just the strike days that

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are bad, it's everyday. Drivers aren't working overtime, which is

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essential to running a railway line. Cancellations, delays, every day.

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Someone has got to step in to sort this out, people are saying

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universally. It's becoming all too familiar. Realistically we aren't

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going to get on this one so we'll wait for the next one. Commuters on

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one of Britain's busiest rail lines, struggling through a strike. The

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whole situation is a complete joke. Other like to know I'm going to end

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up at my destination at a certain time. It's the uncertainty of being

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able to say, I'll get back to meet someone, or might childcare or

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something. Southern normally runs 2200 services a day, today they

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managed 16. This is the queue just to get into East Croydon station.

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All of these people have been trying to get into London. It's about

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8:45am. The queue snakes around a lot, and goes down the side of the

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station, probably about 100 metres. It's taken me an hour to get to

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Croydon and now I've got to queue. I think we should all go on strike!

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For nearly a year, they've been Rowling about changes to the role of

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the on-board guard. Southern wants drivers to take over closing the

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train doors. The unions say that threatens safety and jobs. Southern

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says no one is losing their post, and the safety regulator is happy

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with the changes. There's no of a breakthrough. -- no sign of a

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breakthrough. This is a new million pound lab in Croydon. They moved

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hundreds of staff here last year because of the train service. But

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Southern's drivers aren't working overtime at the moment, causing

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delays and cancellations everyday. It's having a devastating effect on

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staff. They are having to pay the extra childcare, their children

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aren't safe getting home from clubs and school. They can't arrange

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meetings, they're having arguments at home, they are feeling stressed,

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tired and irritable. A number of people say they are getting more and

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more stressed every day about whether they are going to get home,

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or on time for their commitment that night. Back on board, several

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commuters said this. The government need to do something about it. It's

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ridiculous. So the BBC that the proper question to the Minister.

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What are you doing about it? Don't you have a duty to step in on

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behalf... The government is engaged in trying to find a way to get this

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issue resolved and we'll carry on doing that. In Merseyside, unions

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are fighting similar plans to bring in driver only operated trains. It's

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Southern today, but this issue threatens to spread across Britain.

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I said in that report, little sign of a breakthrough. I was talking to

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the boss of Aslef last week, one of the two unions involved. I said, how

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close are you to a deal when you are going into these talks with the

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company? He said we are a universe apart at the moment. It's hard to

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see how this whole dispute is going to be resolved.

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Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl

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in connection with the death of a seven-year-old child in York.

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Police found the girl with life-threatening

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injuries near a house in Woodthorpe yesterday afternoon.

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Our correspondent Danny Savage is in York.

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The seven-year-old girl was found at about 4:30pm yesterday, at the end

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of an alleyway just behind me on the outskirts of York, just inside the

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city's outer ring road. There has been a forensics tent there since

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the incident last night. It has just gone down this morning. People have

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been talking about the fact the girl's mother was one of the first

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on the scene yesterday, she was on her knees in the street shouting and

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sobbing about what had happened. After that, a 15-year-old girl was

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arrested. The seven-year-old girl was attended to by police officers

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and then taken to hospital. She died of her injuries a short time later.

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This morning, investigations have been ongoing. We know that a house

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half a mile from here is currently with police vehicles outside it. We

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believe that is connected to what happened here. The 15-year-old girl

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is being questioned by police officers at the moment. Police have

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been here to leave flowers, one message left reads, night night my

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darling princess, love Nan and grandad. People are very shocked

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about what happened here. Investigations are ongoing and

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hopefully we'll know more later. Football's world governing body Fifa

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has approved plans to expand The new format will be

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introduced from 2026. The bulk of the additional slots

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are likely to go to African Our sports news correspondent

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Richard Conway reports from Fifa's Fifa has been set on clearing

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a path to an expanded But from 2026, it will get its way,

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with 48 teams joining the party. There's China coming

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into the system, maybe in a couple of years India will also come

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into the system. Once China comes into the system,

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Thailand, Vietnam, any other country around it will also come up

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with a better infrastructure, to bring countries that can also

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have the chance to compete So how would a 48-team

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World Cup work? The first round would see teams

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divided into 16 groups of three. The top two countries would likely

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qualify into the knockout rounds. From there, it's win or go home,

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all the way to the final. All of which means the finalists

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will play seven games in total, the same number under the current

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format of 32 teams. With football now played

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almost all year round, Europe's big club teams have

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objected to any change. And there are others within

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the sport who think the current If you get to the final,

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you're still playing only seven But it's the early parts, where

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you've got a lot of teams involved. Group stages, groups

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of three, they are looking So the format is really strange,

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and I think you probably need a lawyer or a mathematician,

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an actuary, to actually work out It was 1998, the last time Fifa

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added teams to the World Cup. Such moves generate

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enormous extra revenues. Fifa will bring in ?800 million more

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in 2026, as a result of this move. But with 211 members,

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there is huge sporting and political There will be great opportunities

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too for British teams to qualify. From a Scotland perspective,

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it's good news, there's more However, it comes with a lot

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of caveats, and I think those caveats are, with an expansion,

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it is potentially travelling a far After a number of years when Fifa

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was rocked by corruption scandals, its new leadership seems determined

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to assert itself. But they must now convince critics

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of the merit in reforming The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says

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immigration levels in the UK are not too high.

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And still to come. Aping human behaviour -

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how these chimpanzees make and use tools to get access to water.

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Coming up in sport at half-past: Seven-time Paralympic champion

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Jody Cundy criticises cycling's world governing body, for deciding

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to hold the para-cycling Track World Championships in just

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seven weeks' time. The musical La La Land has picked up

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the most nominations for this year's Baftas,

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leading the field with 11. Alien drama Arrival and dark

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thriller Nocturnal Animals get nine nominations each -

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and British actors up for awards include Andrew

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Garfield and Emily Blunt. Entertainment correspondent

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Lizo Mzimba was at Bafta's central London headquarters where

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the nominations were announced. # City of stars, are

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you shining just for me? A musical love letter

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to Los Angeles, La La Land's 11 Bafta nominations come

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after the story of an aspiring actress and a talented jazz musician

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swept the board of the It's recognised in the Best Film

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and Best Director categories, nominations too for its stars

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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Many British stars have been

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recognised, a Best Actress nod for Emily Blunt,

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as an alcoholic in A Best Actor nod for Andrew Garfield

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in World War II drama, Information, let's

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exchange information. The Supporting Performer nominations

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include Aaron Taylor Johnson, who said he was genuinely

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humbled to be recognised for the dark thriller,

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Nocturnal Animals... Why didn't you come home

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like you are supposed to? Naomi Harris, nominated

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for the coming of age I tried to explain to the woman,

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I've never been to Newcastle before, we've just moved up here from London

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for a few days. And Hayley Squires,

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who said she was so grateful to be nominated for I,

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Daniel Blake. Jesus Christ!

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Who's first in this queue? The welfare state drama received

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five nominations in total including Best Film and Best

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Director for Ken Loach. 50 years after his first

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Bafta nomination for TV Ken Loach has threatened retirement

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on a few occasions, hasn't he, but when a story grabs him,

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in this case, the script, While another veteran

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Meryl Streep's Best Actress nod for Florence Foster Jenkins means

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she now equals Dame Judi Dench's Morrisons supermarket chain has

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recorded its strongest sales for seven years. Like-for-like sales

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went up 3% at the end of the year. They said strong demand for their

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own brand products inspired the support. We like to treat ourselves

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at Christmas. At Morrisons, they lurid shoppers in and served up some

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great results. It's a remarkable performance. 2.9% growth last year,

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in this marketplace the team were to be congratulated at Morrisons. They

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delivered it through improved customer service and making products

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more available to the customers. No doubt about it, Morrisons was one of

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the big winners this Christmas. Judging by new figures out today,

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business was good for the supermarkets in general. Because

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Christmas fell on a Sunday, we had a whole week to shop. And it was huge.

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Round it all up, we spent ?480 million more on groceries than we

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did last year for the 12 weeks to the end of December. That's growth

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of nearly 2%. But for the first time in two years, prices rose by 0.2%. A

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sign of things to come. Food sales helped deliver a solid December for

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the retail sector overall. It was a goodish end to a roller-coaster

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year. Retail sales across the whole of 2016 grew more slowly than they

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had done in the previous year. That raises more questions in the minds

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of consumers and retailers as to what the outlook for 2017 might be

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shoppers left it late than ever this year but we did spend. The question

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is were we continue to do so in 2017?

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Tens of thousands of patients waited on trolleys at NHS hospitals

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in England during the first week of the new year - according

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Across 131 Trusts, 18,435 patients waited for more than four

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Our health editor Hugh Pym is here.

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with health secretary Jeremy Hunt's comments yesterday that most

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hospitals have been coping well with winter pressure?

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Yes, a lot of stories in the last few days about the NHS in England

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struggling with the pressures. At this time of year, there is always

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very high patient demand, particularly after the New Year

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holiday with people going into hospital having held off over the

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holiday season. Even so, this is a service under extreme pressure. The

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Red Cross said at the weekend there was a humanitarian crisis in health

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and social care, although that was strongly denied by the government.

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Jeremy Hunt in the Commons yesterday said there was unprecedented

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demand. The NHS has seen record days, but he said broadly speaking

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it was coping well. Figures leaked to the BBC from inside the NHS,

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covering the first week of January, show that on one particular gauge,

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the NHS was really struggling and not coping well. That is over

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so-called trolley waits, the length patience will have to stay having

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been admitted because there is no bed available, and the particularly

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serious situation when you have to wait more than 12 hours. The figures

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leaked to the BBC showed there were 485 waiting over 12 hours in the

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first week of the year compared to last January, when only 158

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patience. -- patients. Mr Hunt said only one or two trusts were under

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extreme pressure, but this seems to be rather at odds with that, with

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quite a few hospitals having to keep patients on trolleys before they

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could be formally admitted. Thank you.

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A senior unionist politician has said Northern Ireland is facing

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a "prolonged period" of direct rule from Westminster,

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following the resignation of the deputy first minister,

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It came after weeks of tensions between his party and their partners

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in the power-sharing government, the Democratic Unionists.

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Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page is in Stormont.

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Is there any way this crisis can be resolved?

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There have been previous crisis situations here at Stormont over the

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last few years, when devolution has teetered on the brink but has

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survived. However I don't think that is going to happen this time.

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Northern Ireland is effectively without a devolved government,

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Martin McGuinness' resignation as Deputy First Minister yesterday

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effectively put the First Minister Arlene Foster out of her job because

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they were enjoyed office. Positions have hardened today, politicians are

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openly talking about preparing for the election campaign they think is

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coming. If there is an election and the DUP and Sinn Fein are returned

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again as the largest parties, it doesn't look as if they would go

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back into government with each other straight away, because the

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disagreement between them is so serious. So we could be into complex

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negotiations. Today the senior Democratic union MP Sir Jeffrey

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Donaldson said he thinks Northern Ireland is facing a prolonged period

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of direct rule from Westminster because he can't see devolution

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getting back up and running in a short period of time. But Sinn Fein

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have said it would be unacceptable in their eyes if Westminster were to

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take over running Northern Ireland like that. The Northern Ireland

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Secretary James Brokenshire is to make a statement to MPs about the

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crisis this lunchtime. Thank you. Two bombs have exploded

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near the Afghan parliament in Kabul, No group has claimed

:24:25.:24:27.

responsibility for the bombings, which struck as employees

:24:28.:24:30.

were leaving the The Brazilian government is planning

:24:31.:24:32.

to build dozens of dams It says it will boost the economy

:24:33.:24:39.

and provide clean energy. But critics say it will also

:24:40.:24:42.

mean deforestation, and the end of traditional life

:24:43.:24:44.

for many of Brazil's indigenous From the heart of the planet's

:24:45.:24:47.

greatest rainforest emerges one of the world's biggest

:24:48.:24:54.

civil engineering projects. The Belo Monte Dam is Brazil's

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answer to its growing energy needs. Mired in controversy

:24:58.:25:05.

and allegations of corruption, the $18 billion dam partially blocks

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the Xingu, a major Amazon tributary, and has flooded thousands

:25:12.:25:15.

of acres of rainforest. The local fishing industry has been

:25:16.:25:18.

decimated, and thousands of riverside dwellers

:25:19.:25:32.

have lost their land Forced into a completely

:25:33.:25:34.

alien, urban environment. We get angry, says Juma, showing us

:25:35.:25:41.

his now worthless fishing licence. We see these corporations making

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millions from what used to be ours, he says, and we can't even

:25:45.:25:47.

use the river any more. Building the dam brought

:25:48.:25:49.

hundreds of jobs to But it also led to increasing

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deforestation and the permanent loss Brazil says it wants to build at

:25:52.:26:09.

least 50 hydroelectric dams across the Amazon. The government says it

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is clean, sustainable energy, but the impact of so many of these

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structures on the world's greatest river system, its environment and

:26:18.:26:19.

people, will be immense. Next in line for development,

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the Tapajos, described as the most beautiful river

:26:26.:26:27.

in the Amazon region, A plan to build several

:26:28.:26:32.

dams along its length will transform this wide,

:26:33.:26:36.

shallow river into It would flood forests and islands

:26:37.:26:38.

used by the people for centuries. Tribal chiefs say they will resist

:26:39.:26:48.

any attempts to build TRANSLATION: The government always

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comes here with its lies. There's not one place where a dam

:26:51.:26:56.

has been built that has turned out These tattooed warriors

:26:57.:27:00.

of the Amazon are taking on powerful business

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and political interests. They want to weaken environmental

:27:11.:27:14.

legislation and fast track the construction

:27:15.:27:17.

of hydro-electric dams. Clean energy and the promise

:27:18.:27:19.

of jobs versus the rights And whether to exploit or protect

:27:20.:27:21.

this fragile ecosystem. A stretch of the M1

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in Northamptonshire is expected to remain closed for most of today,

:27:33.:27:34.

after a body was found on the road. The motorway's northbound

:27:35.:27:38.

carriageway was shut at about three o'clock this morning,

:27:39.:27:43.

from junctions 16 to 17 and a police investigation

:27:44.:27:45.

is under way. The Post Office is to close

:27:46.:27:48.

and franchise a further 37 The Communication Workers' Union

:27:49.:27:50.

says this could lead Crown post offices are

:27:51.:27:55.

the larger branches usually For the first time ever,

:27:56.:27:59.

researchers have filmed chimpanzees making and using tools to get access

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to water that no other The study of a critically endangered

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population of chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast discovered them

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using tree branches A mother and baby in

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Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park It's the dry season,

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so to reach a water supply hidden deep within these tree holes,

:28:27.:28:32.

they are making and using tools. It's just another insight

:28:33.:28:36.

into the remarkable behaviour If you think they've got 90-95%

:28:37.:28:38.

the same DNA as humans, We've seen it, working at Chester

:28:39.:28:45.

zoo with these animals, The different cultures

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of chimpanzees have So it's certainly not new to find

:28:52.:28:56.

chimpanzees using tools. The animals are already known to use

:28:57.:29:01.

sticks to fish for termites and to dip into beehives for honey,

:29:02.:29:05.

but the researchers were particularly impressed by how well

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crafted these drinking tools were. Chimps selected and stripped long

:29:10.:29:12.

thin sticks and chewed the ends And for captive breeding

:29:13.:29:16.

programmes like this one, zoos have to understand these

:29:17.:29:23.

natural behaviours to keep the animals as mentally

:29:24.:29:25.

stimulated as possible. And then we give them an area

:29:26.:29:28.

where they keep honey, And they have to use their sticks,

:29:29.:29:33.

make them into a certain way so they can put the stick

:29:34.:29:39.

in the hole and get the food out. It's all gone very quiet

:29:40.:29:43.

here at Chester zoo because it's feeding time for

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the chimpanzees, and these are actually Western chimpanzees,

:29:49.:29:50.

the same subspecies that was looked Nimble fingered, very clever,

:29:51.:29:53.

toolmaking and tool-using, but sadly, critically

:29:54.:29:58.

endangered primates. In the wild, the population of these

:29:59.:30:03.

great apes continues to decline, largely because of poaching

:30:04.:30:06.

and the destruction Findings like this show just how

:30:07.:30:09.

much more we have to learn A look at the weather with Louise.

:30:10.:30:14.

Some chilly weather heading our way. A lot to get in this forecast, some

:30:15.:30:34.

of it quite severe. Here and now, pretty dull out there. A lot of

:30:35.:30:39.

cloud, the best breaks have been to the east. A weather front is moving

:30:40.:30:44.

in and producing cloud and like patchy drizzle, nothing more. A

:30:45.:30:49.

quiet afternoon for many of us. Relatively mild. Temperatures will

:30:50.:30:54.

peak at highs of around 8-11d. As we go through the latter stages of the

:30:55.:30:59.

day and overnight, we start to see the severe weather. It arrives in

:31:00.:31:03.

the far north-west, with severe gales developing across Scotland,

:31:04.:31:08.

bringing heavy rain for a time, turning increasingly wintry, perhaps

:31:09.:31:11.

on higher ground through the night. Further south, we keep a lot of

:31:12.:31:15.

cloud and outbreaks of drizzle, but not quite as cold. As we go into

:31:16.:31:19.

tomorrow, the wind is going to be the real cause for concern. So we

:31:20.:31:24.

have got this travel warning. Be prepared if you are driving high

:31:25.:31:29.

sided vehicles, severe gales perhaps likely across Scotland. 625 mph

:31:30.:31:34.

gusts of wind, frequent showers which will turn increasingly wintry

:31:35.:31:39.

at lower levels. -- 65 five miles per hour. Potential across the peaks

:31:40.:31:45.

and Pennines of 65-70 mph gusts. Much of England and Wales,

:31:46.:31:49.

relatively quiet. A few light showers across west facing coasts. A

:31:50.:31:54.

windy start, but not bad, sunny spells coming through but it stays

:31:55.:31:58.

windy to the showers will turn increasingly wintry at lower levels.

:31:59.:32:02.

It will feel pretty cold into the far north, 3-4 degrees. 6-7 further

:32:03.:32:09.

south. Blizzard conditions as we go through the night on Thursday. Some

:32:10.:32:14.

accumulation will start to gather across lower levels, Scotland, maybe

:32:15.:32:18.

Northern Ireland for a time. Relatively more miles down to the

:32:19.:32:22.

south-west. A front bringing some rain as we push into the south-west.

:32:23.:32:26.

This could be interesting, as it moves south west, we could see some

:32:27.:32:30.

heavy rain, particularly across channel facing coasts and the M4

:32:31.:32:35.

corridor. The potential for some snow in the higher grounds and the

:32:36.:32:39.

hills of Wales, the Midlands and maybe the Home Counties, but it is

:32:40.:32:43.

mostly rain south of that. A windy and cold day, particularly when you

:32:44.:32:47.

factor in the strength of the wind in Scotland, -3 or 4 degrees. The

:32:48.:32:53.

low pressure will move out of the way on Friday. Things a little more

:32:54.:32:57.

quiet on Friday. It stays cold, so we could still have the risk of

:32:58.:32:58.

wintry showers. A reminder of our main

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story this lunchtime. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

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says immigration levels That's all from the BBC News at One,

:33:05.:33:06.

so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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news teams where you are.

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